Re: racism

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rod Hay wrote:

> Lou: I think that there are two senses in which the word racism is used.
>
> 1. A belief that the world's population can be meaningfully divided into
> groups, based on something called race.
> 2. A belief that based on that division, and an implicit system of
> values, some of those groups are superior to others.

Though check out Balibar on neo-racism, which holds that "races" or
"cultures" should be kept separate, though without ever invoking a
hierarchy of superior and inferior, as with the old kind of racism.

Doug