• LwL@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      “Race” for humans is a made up concept and “racism” has been used to refer to any kind of hating a group for their ethnicity. “Ethnicity” is a very ambiguously defined concept notably including shared attributes like nationality, language, history, religion, etc.

      I, too, am not a fan of words being used incorrectly, but this is not an incorrect use of “racism”.

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      10 months ago

      People are killing each other over land and historical grievances, not whether to call God Allah or Yahweh.

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      Biologically speaking, there is only one human race. So, does that make the word “racism” invalid? It’s a stupid term whose origin makes no sense, but I’d argue its meaning had transcended its original linguistic root. Same for anti-“semitism”.

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        Biologically speaking, there is only one human race

        The colloquial term for a group with common physical features is race. That biologists have a different technical meaning isn’t relevant. If you deny that people categorize others and call it “race” then you deny racism.

        Racial:

        “relating to the major groupings into which humankind is sometimes divided on the basis of physical characteristics or shared ancestry.”

        I’d argue its meaning had transcended its original linguistic root.

        But this is religious discrimination. I’ve already shown that neither ethnic group nor racial group matters in this situation.