Racism/reactions

[azurelunatic]

I define "prejudice" as "a pre-made opinion about something that is applied by default to all situations about this thing, usually without likelihood of change." I am prejudiced against AOL users, and prejudiced in favor of Linux users.
I define "racism" as "prejudice against a race".
"Discrimination" in the bad way: "acting on prejudice; treating people differently because of factors unrelated to the situation". (I shall not abide the term 'reverse discrimination'. Discrimination is discrimination, whether you enact against someone who is black, white, or purple and pink polka-dotted.)

The usual reaction of the society trying to fight racism is to ignore race entirely.

...My reaction to that policy has finally been formulated. "The colorblind can't see the rainbow." My father delighted in the rainbow.

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[sithjawa.livejournal.com]

I'm still waiting for a good way to deal with prejudice.

But I've finally figured out how to get a gender neutral pronoun in common use: have investigators and spies use them to protect people's identity (or not make assumptions about criminals that might keep them from figuring out who they are).

Right now "gender neutral pronoun" means "rabid feminist"... I want to see it mean "witness protection program" :D

[azurelunatic]

I use it for something similar as well. Note in my rant about people calling with the phone sex thing, that I carefully in the main entry avoided all references to gender. It came out sounding male, but it was actually fairly neuter.