Boston Globe
. . . "Or, many of us have for days been furiously dismissing Trump’s victory as the action of “racists.” However, many of the people who voted for Trump did so for populist reasons, amid which to them, Trump’s take on black people and women was unseemly, but still less of a priority than to most who voted for Hillary Clinton. Regret this though one may, do all of these people deserve to be casually tarred with the same “racist” label that we appropriately apply to David Duke and Donald Sterling?
. . .
"In a similar way, racism is now used to mean not only “an opinion
that certain people are inferior because of their race” but “a
statement, action, or situation that someone of a certain race feels
as having arisen from racist sentiment.” Racism, then, is that
which I feel as racist, or something such as a societal discrepancy
which I opine must have come from racism." . . .
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