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the owl and the coyote, the trickster and the sage

Racism & Racialism

The use of the word "racist" as a synonym for everything but its meaning (e.g., xenophobe, bastard, and so on) is due to the confusion in minds when thinking it's a useful swearword.

"Racism" is only the theory assuming the existence of races. Though this concept has no reasonable background and is sometime kind of a pretext for discriminating and by the way dominating an "other" group of people (for economical or political reasons). But basically a racist is only someone saying there are races, either (s)he finds it a good or a bad thing.

When people want to part society for political, economical, social or even philosophical reasons, they might come to use the criteria of what the call the "race". They assume racism as a valid theory (which is false). such an attitude trending to incite violence against "races" should be called "racialism", which claims "racism" can be used as a foundation for relations in society.

Racism as an opinion can only be fought by words, reflection and culture (by being proven false by science and philosophy, in the first place, and by being denounced as false by politics, at least). Racialism is a violence against individuals and by the way against democracy and it can only be stumbled down by a coherent and democratic action (part of which censorship might not be, beforehand).

Le coyote.

From the previous analysis, a problem arises : is "black" is beautiful a racist statement?

It is. Excepted in front of a racist (or racialist) who asserts that a) you are black b)black is dirty and to be destroyed. Thus, between us, there is no being black, yelloy, or even gay! There is only being, in one's own way.

Le hibou.