"Racism" is now too loaded a term.
"Groupism" is closer to the core of the faulty human judgment.
It captures the same stupidity that assigns inappropriate attributes to a race, gender, political party or job.
"Bigotry" is a perfectly good word.
@mcfate
Then why don't we hear that word used more often?
The Whoopie Goldberg incident initiated this thought. At first I had to understand it Jews were, in face, a Race. That didn't take long, but I did have questions at first.
Then I realized that the term "Race" was irrelevant to the topic. It was Bigotry or Groupism. "Race" was just an attribute of Bigotry in order to create "Racism". That mindset allows many other non-race, unjust actions to be justified.
Okay, here's the thing: "race" is an imaginary construct, with no actual analogue in the real world.
If you call a Muslim-hater a racist, they'll bicker with you over whether being a Muslim is a race. Call them a religious bigot.
The Nazi's defined a "full Jew" as someone who had three or more Jewish grandparents. People with fewer than that could apply for the status of "probationary human", effectively.
Whoopie β not bafflingly β imagines racism is a skin color thing, and that's all. It's not.
She shows HER blind spots by imagining it is, or somehow thinking you could tell Nazis you didn't give a shit about Judaism, and they'd take it into consideration.
@mcfate
At the core of Whoopie's fault is that she's weighting the overt indicator more than the underlying belief construct: Because Jews are often average Caucasian-looking they cannot be the target of racism.
The trigger/indicator is not the issue. It's the underlying belief construct. And, that extends far beyond race. Anything that can be construed as a tribe is a label that can be used.
The core of her fault is letting her mouth run about things she never actually took the time to understand.
@mcfate
But isn't that the business model of those shows? Run off their mouths and create drama?
Run off too far and you get suspended for a few weeks.
What would be better is to unpack it so that society becomes more sophisticated on the topic. Maybe then we'll find ways of teaching the benefits and importance of morality - at scale.
Evidently not, seeing that they suspended her for two weeks.
"We're giving you a two-week time-out for successfully executing our business model."
Best of luck making society "more sophisticated" on ANY topic.