Who the hell came up with this term? How can something like racism be reversed? Racism is racism. Doesn't matter if it's white on black, black on white, purple on blue, or polka dots on stripes.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (The Captain @ Jul 16 2007, 09:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Who the hell came up with this term? How can something like racism be reversed? Racism is racism. Doesn't matter if it's white on black, black on white, purple on blue, or polka dots on stripes.</div>Because, black people were discriminated so much before the 20th century...
Reverse racism actually makes perfect sense if you know how it is properly defined.Racism is a commonly misused term (as far as scholarly definitions go, anyway). Usually if someone says, "Asian people know math really well, lol!" or some Mexican joke, Jew joke, black joke, or what have you, someone will respond saying that whatever that person said was racist. That is using the term incorrectly. That is typically defined as stereotyping, not racism. I'm not saying that you won't find definitions that disagree. The way I've had it described is that for it to be racism, someone has to be in a position of superiority. Thusly, one boy saying, "You're stupid because you're black" isn't racist. An example of someone being racist would be a white teacher giving better grades to white people over other races even if the work is the same, or a white cop harrassing black people (like in Crash). Like I said, some definitions will disagree, but I've heard very intelligent people define it as this.So in this case, the typical case previously would be the white person giving the nod to white people based on race rather than merit, whereas now other races are typically getting into colleges or getting better jobs with worse qualifications. Black people, specifically, normally did not have advantage over white people, so as far as this definition goes, real racism was/is impossible if you have white people in a position of power. However, I do agree that the idea of reverse racism or reverse discrimination is somewhat flawed.
