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That definition of racism is certainly a minority one, and isn't supported by the dictionaries I checked. To intentionally misunderstand what most people mean by racism, and then tweet like that, it seems like she's setting up a straw man in order to get into a fight.

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The popular definition of racism is popular because it robs the word of it's purpose, which is to fight power, not pattern matching.

I'd say the exact opposite. This attempt to redefine the well-understood term "racism" into "something only white people can do" is a shameful maneuver to commandeer the societal reserves of moral outrage rightfully reserved for use against racial hatred, and redirect them so that racists who hate white people are immune. It is absolutely Orwellian.

Racial hatred is despicable in all forms. Those who push for such an artificial redefinition of racism would have us forget this.

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