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johnsmith1840yesterday at 10:36 PM

That's a made up deffinition only recently invented. Racism is hating another group of people based on physical or cultural background.

The US is the most powerful country does that mean if I go to india I can't experience racism because technically India is "weaker" ?

Isn't this example literally a group of stronger indians being racist to weaker individuals (job applicants)?

This also implies they are not hiring black, asian, or hispanic people either but because they're a minority that's ok?

Such a bad take.

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DontchaKnowityesterday at 10:33 PM

I never understood this redefinition of the word... Racism means prejudice based on race. Period. Thats all it means. Redefining the word like you suggested is moving the political goalposts

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baxtryesterday at 11:21 PM

So are you saying that if you were to put white people into a country that is systemically ruled by non-whites, they can’t be racist there?

techbro92yesterday at 10:30 PM

At certain companies and it’s org structures yeah

oblioyesterday at 10:26 PM

What about these cases happening outside of the US?