Anonymous asked: I have an English Major and I have to ask: Why the hell white people keep trying to appropriate the word racism? Seriously. Everytime someone comes in here shouting "reverse racism" I feel like, more than the obvious bigotry, they keep trying to take a word - obviously used to define this blatant effect of colonialism - as it was theirs. It is like, trying to take a struggle that does not belong to them just to try and make a (totally invalid) point. Sorry if its not clear, I'm kinda upset.

I get you. I used to use both definitions of racism depending on the conversation but I found White people kept acting like their stories that were always about how they were picked on for being White at school were on the same level as institutionalized racism. White people’s behavior is responsible for my refusal to ever use the dictionary definition.



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