I see where you’re coming from, and I also wish I didn’t have to do the extra work to remember the correct technical definition of racism when I read White Fragility.
There’s nothing technical about the definition of racism that gets used by people like DeAngelo. In physics a definition becomes technical when it’s well defined enough to objectively measure the resulting effect. There’s nothing that makes their definition more inherently correct either.
In the civil rights area a lot of laws were passed to combat racism and I would say that the resulting legal concepts of racism are the nearest we have to a technical definition of racism and that definition is about discriminating for people based on the their race (perceived race).
There’s nothing technical about the definition of racism that gets used by people like DeAngelo. In physics a definition becomes technical when it’s well defined enough to objectively measure the resulting effect. There’s nothing that makes their definition more inherently correct either.
In the civil rights area a lot of laws were passed to combat racism and I would say that the resulting legal concepts of racism are the nearest we have to a technical definition of racism and that definition is about discriminating for people based on the their race (perceived race).