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What is Racism?

Fighting racism requires knowing what it is—not an easy task. Today the word "racism" has so many contradictory meanings that it takes on the aura of a myth and is, therefore, difficult to define. The following will attempt to define racist ideology, independently of any sociological considerations. The first difficulty arises from the fact that racism is a Schimpfwort: a term with pejorative connotations, whose very use inevitably tends to be more instrumental than descriptive. Deploying the adjective "racist" involves using a powerful epithet. It can be a smear designed to disqualify those at whom the term is addressed....