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"It's not racism if you're being discriminated against but have power"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52993306

>On 28 May, Ms Mitchum emailed Merriam-Webster to point out that racism is "both prejudice combined with social and institutional power. It is a system of advantage based on skin colour".

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No 17 year old college applicant has power.

What would you call treating a 17 year old different based on their skin color? If we can't use the word racism anymore, then I'll call it bigoted.

Except the legacy admits, who are always miraculously exepmt from the increasing "equality" in college applications.

It is indeed racial discrimination, but it isn't institutional racism. There is a very definite difference between the two. Lots of people on many sides of the issue like to conflate the two when it is convenient, and some are just ignorant of the difference.

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