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> I don't know your racial category, but people of color frequently mention how white people aggressively like to redefine racism so it doesn't include their own racism.

And white people do the same thing about people of color, pointing to the not-infrequently-made redefinition of racism that anyone who isn't in the currently-dominant race cannot, ipso facto, be "racist" [1].

The fact that people of all races can point to self-serving and ridiculous attempts from people of other races to redefine their own racism as "not racism" does not, however, make the very idea that the term must have some boundaries to be useful invalid.

[1] for an example of this argument see, e.g., http://wwsword.blogspot.com/2008/03/why-black-people-cant-be...




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