On 5/6/2010 9:29 AM, Warp wrote:
> Darren New<dne### [at] sanrrcom>  wrote:
>> And yes, there are controversies over that. California keeps flip-flopping
>> between "affirmative action" and not. (AA being where you make it easier for
>> minorities to (say) get into college simply because they're a minority.)
>
>    One of the most hilarious terms that some people use is "reverse racism".
>
>    That term just doesn't make any sense. What is "reverse racism"? What
> people *mean* by that, and I'm not kidding a bit here, is when a white
> person is the victim and a non-white person is the perpretrator. As if
> regular plain "racism" was only when a white person is prejudiced or
> discriminates a non-white person due to his ethnicity. Just the existence
> of that term and the meaning it's used with is even more telling, IMO.
>
Not quite that simplistic, but sort of correct. It refers to the 
tendency of groups to automatically assume racism in one group, and thus 
victimize them, preemptively. Its completely stupid, but just as real as 
'normal' racism.

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