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Racism is power + prejudice, and POCs like Indians have no power in the US. What's going on here is unfortunate but nowhere near a real issue, and certainly not racism.

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No it's not. Never was, never will be. This racist attempt to redefine what the term means will not stand as long as there are enough freedom-minded people around.

Sure, there's a technical issue of is a caste the same as a race.

But for all intents and purposes, the situation is the same. The employee had bad outcomes alledgedly because people with power (his managers) were prejudiced against him because of who his parents were.

It still blows my mind that people think race in America isn't a caste system. It absolutely is a caste system.

Wait until it's common knowledge that political disposition is heritable.

"nowhere near a real issue"

What does that mean?

Is what described in the article "nowhere near a real issue"?

Did you try looking in the dictionary for the word 'racism'? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism

It's shocking to me how people can suggest with a straight face that certain races can't be racist. You should be able to read something and determine if it's racist by the intended message. It shouldn't be a requirement to find out who said it and how much power that person has. This conscious effort by some sociologists to redefine "racism" instead of creating a new term for "power + prejudice" is yet another example that they are more interested in promoting an agenda than doing real science.

This never made sense to me. If Donald Trump is locked up in a Chinese jail and powerless, he's no longer racist? A KKK member surrounded by a group of armed black police officers is not racist?

that's because it's a nonsense definition intended to keep the culture battle raging even after progress is made

Exactly. Some people are trying hard to change the definition of racism so that when people A harm or discriminat people B on a racial basis it’s supposedly not racist for some given A and some given B.

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