# What is Racism?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-racism/236865>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 28, 2004, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-racism/236865 "2004-03-28T04:32:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![vasyachkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c5a1d2/32.png) [@vasyachkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vasyachkin)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-racism/236865/81 "2004-03-31T05:55:06Z")

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> [@Science Girl](#):
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> Are Whites uniquely critisized for ethnocentrism when all other racial groups display the same ethnocentrism for their own group?

yes we are uniquely criticized. you know why ? because that is what we want. we want to take the credit for beign so damn openminded and proactive. stop trying to take it away from us.

if you are “a person of color” you probably need to get a life.

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**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-racism/236865/82 "2004-03-31T14:10:33Z")

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If you want to talk at length about whether a poster is as she represents herself, please take it to the Pit. Some minor comments in GD, fine, but don’t make the whole thread about if she is really “brown” or not. Which seems to be what has happened here.

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