Anonymous asked: You can be racist against any group of people. Why are you fighting tooth and nail against this concept?

sou-sai:

crank-your-brain-up:

canofolives: When you hate a person because of the color of their skin, it’s called bias. Racism is when people are being oppressed. White people are not oppressed here. Black people are. No the word racism is generally (outside of tumblr and sociology classes) is used to mean any prejudice our bias based on race ethnicity or skin color. Only some use it to only mean oppression. But that is not the standard use it definition.

@canofolives

Racism and prejudice are fairly synonymous the only difference is racism focuses primarily on discrimination based on race. That is all.

What you are chalking up to “oppression” is not accurate. Yes, white people are not oppressed, and neither are blacks. There are injustices on both sides of the spectrum, this is true, some may be more than others, but racism is still racism regardless of who it comes from. There is no “oppression” needed in order to discriminate against someone based on their race. It is a simple concept.

When you say oppression is needed, and excuse people because they are not “oppressed” you are essentially saying “Racism, or prejudice, is only alright when certain groups perpetuate it. It’s bad when these people do it, but I’m a different color than them so I can be a terrible person without being judged for it.” Which is also racist.