Why do you assume that I insist? I reused the same convenient shorthand for a deeply complex and nuanced phenomenon that occurred in the original post, where it said “The United States has problems with racism, prejudice and xenophobia.”.
What do you hope will change as a result of having made your comment? Genuinely curious; would you like me to edit in some scare quotes around it or switch to a shorthand for the complicated phenomenon which you find more palatable? I’m not particularly attached to nor fond of the word, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call it entirely meaningless—I grew up speaking a language in which “racism” refers to treating some people more negatively than others on the basis of some aspect of their ancestry, and most dictionaries seem to loosely agree.
Why do you assume that I insist? I reused the same convenient shorthand for a deeply complex and nuanced phenomenon that occurred in the original post, where it said “The United States has problems with racism, prejudice and xenophobia.”.
What do you hope will change as a result of having made your comment? Genuinely curious; would you like me to edit in some scare quotes around it or switch to a shorthand for the complicated phenomenon which you find more palatable? I’m not particularly attached to nor fond of the word, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call it entirely meaningless—I grew up speaking a language in which “racism” refers to treating some people more negatively than others on the basis of some aspect of their ancestry, and most dictionaries seem to loosely agree.