• nitefox@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I still don’t understand why the use of racism in the description. It derives from the idea that race is actually a thing, and in a way it still promotes the idea. I would like to see a change for the much better and modern term “ethnicism”.

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      1 year ago

      Race is a social concept. Race is a thing which exists. Gender is a social concept. Gender is a thing which exists. Race is based on ethnicity, but can’t be explained by it alone, gender is based on sex, but can’t be explained by it alone.