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Originally Posted by Katie_UPS
What you experienced was awful and I'm not trying to minimize the pain and suffering you went through. But it's not racism. Racism is the systematic oppression of PoC by white people through a social structure where white people have power and privilege over non-whites.
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That's an unreasonably narrow formulation of the problem. For example, to the extent that Han Chinese populations systematically discriminate against Chinese people of Uyghur or Mongol descent by virtue of the distribution of power and privilege in Chinese society, it is racism by any reasonable standard. In other words, racism is not just something white people do. (Your definition probably has traction because a lot of the discourse on racism originates from academic circles in the U.S.—where that formulation is a convenient approximation of the most commonly observed issues. But it cannot withstand scrutiny as a general proposition.)
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