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In reply to the discussion: Chris Rock: It's not black people who have progressed. It's white people. [View all]Pacifist Patriot
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This is an exerpt from the article Why Theres No Such Thing as Reverse Racism.
"Prejudice is an irrational feeling of dislike for a person or group of persons, usually based on stereotype. Virtually everyone feels some sort of prejudice, whether its for an ethnic group, or for a religious group, or for a type of person like blondes or fat people or tall people. The important thing is they just dont like them in short, prejudice is a feeling, a belief. You can be prejudiced, but still be a fair person if youre careful not to act on your irrational dislike.
Discrimination takes place the moment a person acts on prejudice. This describes those moments when one individual decides not to give another individual a job because of, say, their race or their religious orientation. Or even because of their looks (theres a lot of hiring discrimination against unattractive women, for example). You can discriminate, individually, against any person or group, if youre in a position of power over the person you want to discriminate against. White people can discriminate against black people, and black people can discriminate against white people if, for example, one is the interviewer and the other is the person being interviewed.
Racism, however, describes patterns of discrimination that are institutionalized as normal throughout an entire culture. Its based on an ideological belief that one race is somehow better than another race. Its not one person discriminating at this point, but a whole population operating in a social structure that actually makes it difficult for a person not to discriminate."
Then you'll see why your comment is absurd.