RACISM IS NOT ABOUT RACISM is a deep dive - perhaps opinionated - into the possible origin of racism. It's not racism that causes racism. We have to look much deeper!

This is a rant on tracing racism way back to where it all started... join me to see what you think? Perhaps I'm wrong and I'm open to that. Perhaps you have an insight that could help us all? Perhaps you wanna share your own voice or opinion on the matter?

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Show Notes (Dictionary Deep Dive):

Racism
Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.

Prejudice
Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

Discrimination
The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.

Antagonism
Active hostility or opposition.

Race
A race is a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into categories generally viewed as distinct by society.

Superior
Higher in rank, status, or quality.

Unjust
Not based on or behaving according to what is morally right and fair.

Morally
In a way that is considered right according to the code of behavior of a particular society.

Right
Morally good, justified, or acceptable.

Code
A set of rules and standards adhered to by a society, class, or individual

Rules
One of a set of explicit or understood regulations or principles governing conduct within a particular activity or sphere.

Fair
In accordance with the rules or standards; legitimate.

Standards
Principles of conduct informed by notions of honor and decency.

Honor
Adherence to what is right or to a conventional standard of conduct.

Acceptable
Able to be agreed on; suitable.

Agree
Have the same opinion about something; concur

Opinion
A view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge

Judgement
An opinion or conclusion

Decency
Behavior that conforms to accepted standards of morality or respectability

Conforms
Comply with rules, standards, or laws

Laws
The system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties
(Stereotype)
A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.