Prejudice, for example, is defined as a feeling of dislike for a particular racial ethnicity or group. Discrimination is prejudice plus actions such as harassment, social exclusion, and employment, housing, and educational discrimination that harm the group. Racism is discrimination plus an institutionalization of those discriminatory acts which are then perpetuated by society. When members of a majority claim that they are victims of reverse racism, what they are actually experiencing are acts of prejudice. It is completely possible for White people to be victims of prejudice, but that does not mean they are being oppressed. In order for someone to be a victim of racism, it is required for that act to be perpetuated by society. In a society where people of European descent are favoured and privileged in almost every way, it is impossible for those acts to become institutionalized, perpetuated, or have any lasting effect. Temporary hurt feelings caused by prejudice do not even begin to compare to the lasting effects that acts of racism inflict on people of colour every single day of their
Prejudice, for example, is defined as a feeling of dislike for a particular racial ethnicity or group. Discrimination is prejudice plus actions such as harassment, social exclusion, and employment, housing, and educational discrimination that harm the group. Racism is discrimination plus an institutionalization of those discriminatory acts which are then perpetuated by society. When members of a majority claim that they are victims of reverse racism, what they are actually experiencing are acts of prejudice. It is completely possible for White people to be victims of prejudice, but that does not mean they are being oppressed. In order for someone to be a victim of racism, it is required for that act to be perpetuated by society. In a society where people of European descent are favoured and privileged in almost every way, it is impossible for those acts to become institutionalized, perpetuated, or have any lasting effect. Temporary hurt feelings caused by prejudice do not even begin to compare to the lasting effects that acts of racism inflict on people of colour every single day of their