On 11 December 2014 at 08:34, allegedly Bob Blick <bobblick@ftml.net> wrote=
:

I guess the "kick me" sign I put on worked :)
>
> Bob
>
> Sent from my sliver of the hobby-sphere
>

Who are you?
What have you done with Bob?

After two (that registered) sallies I figured some  damage control was
going to be in order about any time now but, whoever you are, you seem to
have the measure of things very nicely.
Well held, Sir.

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FWIW: I agree re racism being reasonably universal. If you define it as a
negative bias then a few saints may manage to miss inclusion. If you extend
it to "incorrect perceptions due to race or ethnicity" it would be fairly
universal.


I'd easily enough drift into the category 2b. below and am aware of the
ongoing need to examine my perceptions, behaviour and more across the board
in all related areas.

FWIW Wikipedia (what would they know? :-) ) says:

1. "*Racism* consists of both prejudice
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejudice> and discrimination
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination> based in social perceptions
of biological differences between peoples. It often takes the form of
social actions, practices or beliefs, or political systems that consider
different races
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(classification_of_humans)> to be ranked
as inherently superior <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacism> or
inferior to each other, based on presumed shared inheritable traits,
abilities, or qualities. It may also hold that members of different races
should be treated differently."

2a .... "In sociology and psychology, some definitions only include
consciously malignant forms of discrimination.[4]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism#cite_note-:0-4>[5]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism#cite_note-5> 2b.  However, some
consider any assumption that a person's behavior is tied to their racial
categorization to be inherently racist, regardless of whether the action is
intentionally harmful or pejorative, because stereotyping
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype> necessarily subordinates
individual identity to group identity." ....

..... "While race and ethnicity <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic> are
considered to be separate phenomena in contemporary social science, the two
terms have a long history of equivalence in popular usage and older social
science literature. Racism and *racial discrimination* are often used to
describe discrimination on an ethnic or cultural basis, independent of
whether these differences are described as racial." ....



         allegedly Russell
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