Re: Racism

["Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:51:26 +0200, "Jukka K. Korpela"
<jkorpela@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:%xylh.12566$G23.8167@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in
sci.lang:

> Sub titulo "Re: Why Beijing?" scripsit Joachim Pense:

>> Isn't "racism" often used nowadays to denote prejudices agains
>> ethnicities?

> No, these days "racism" is a general-purpose curse word
> that has no  denotation; it expresses its user's strongly
> emotional disapproval of  something.

Depends very much on who's using it; I know a fair number of
people, myself included, who haven't even generalized it as
far as Joachim suggests.  And in my experience the view that
you express here frequently turns out to be a political
opinion masquerading as a detached observation.

[...]

Brian