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Re: Appeal For Intellectual Integrity
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Apr 1, 2012 11:18 AM
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"Your most recent racist claim is racist because you clearly said that
grade inflation happens MOST in mostly black schools, which happen to
be public schools. But I keep citing to you the science that says that
grade inflation happens most in the PRIVATE schools, which happen to
be very much mostly white. It is therefore a racist lie to bring race
into the equation and say that grade inflation happens most on black
students when it actually happens most on white students! And on top
of that, these white students who most experience grade inflation are
in private schools and have therefore no contact at all with your
so-called Education Mafia!"
Paul, your new, unique, and strange definition of racist will eventually get you in trouble. It doesn't match any American English dictionary definition, and it certainly doesn't match the Oxford English Dictionary definition. If you're going to march all over the planet, and all over this forum, and all over our children, accusing anyone who disagrees with you of being a racist, then you owe it to us to DEFINE your terms.
If you don't do that, then you need to stick to the OED definition, as follows:
Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989
racism
[f. RACE sb.2 + -ISM; cf. F. racisme (Robert 1935).] a. The theory that distinctive human characteristics and abilities are determined by race. b = RACIALISM.
1936 L. Dennis Coming Amer. Fascism 109 If .. it be assumed that one of our values should be a type of racism which excludes certain races from citizenship, then the plan of execution should provide for the annihilation, deportization, or sterilization of the excluded races.
[note: by this definition, if a person believes Negros are black, he's practicing racism]
racist ('reisist), sb. and a. [f. RACE sb.2 + -ist.] A. sb. = RACIALIST sb.
1932 M. Eastman tr. Trotsky's Hist. Russ. Revol. i. 27 This brief comment completely finishes off not only the old philosophy of the Slavophiles, but also the latest revelation of the 'Racists'. 1934 H. G. Wells Exper. Autobiogr. I iii. 107 So much for the Hitlerite stage of my development, when I was a sentimentalist, a moralist, a patriot, a racist.
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