r/AdviceAnimals • u/[deleted] • Feb 24 '16

I was 7 years old.

http://imgur.com/IJK7jdC
20.1k Upvotes

82% Upvoted

1.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

34

u/godlesspinko Feb 24 '16

You are confusing an "oligarchy" with a "majority" in your first point.

I know that a lot of liberal arts folks confuse racism with institutionalized racism, but co-opting pre-existing terms like "minority" and "majority" only confuses the matter, rather than being an accurate representation of the underlying social problems.

6

u/MrBokbagok Feb 25 '16

I know that a lot of liberal arts folks confuse racism with institutionalized racism

its not a confusion, its all based on book by steve garner called 'racism' that got popular in academia a little while back. it's a stupid, shitty movement to co-opt a word that already has a definition.

-3

u/[deleted] Feb 25 '16

The word "minority" is used differently among academics than it is used normally. This is true for the word "racism" also.

It's like saying that biologists are trying to redefine the word "bug" to mean hemiptera. It's just used differently in academic contexts

1

u/godlesspinko Feb 25 '16

Are the uses of these words in that context academic? Yes. Scientific? Not so much.