1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.The Random House Dictionary further defines it:
2 : racial prejudice or discrimination.
1. a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.Today, the biggest played-out, over-used, tired cliché is the word racist. Any time anyone says something someone doesn't like, or does something someone doesn't like, they are labeled a racist and their actions racism. Through a natural selection, in a society who is moving farther and farther away from God and religion, people have moved away from likening evil to Satan and Satanism, and they have replaced it with Adolf Hitler and Nazism.
2. a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.
3. hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.
In case you were wondering, THIS is Hitler.Recently in the news, President Obama sent his acolytes out unto the media circuit. Their message? To tell the World how the new "N" Word is Socialist. Well, I don't know where they got their degrees, no doubt in the bottom of a box of Cracker Jacks, but there is no "n" in the word Socialist. I'll go them one further, I defy them to find an "n" in the word Socialism. Perhaps they were refering to the public's response to Socialists and Socialism: No. There's your "N" Word.
Now that we've had some fun with literalism, let's move to the point of this article. I submit to the Obamites, that the new "N" Word is indeed Racist, and just like the real "N" Word, the "Ns", if you will, feel that they are the only ones who get to use it.
The word race is defined as:
1: A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics.It seems rather odd to me, that nowhere in the definitions of race or racism, does it lend credence to an idea that opposing someone's sociopolitical views or tired, failed policies constitutes racist behavior. Even if, and I want to make this perfectly clear, they are of a different race, it still doesn't make opposing them racist behavior. Add in the fact that technically, if we are all Americans, we would fall under the second definition of the word race, and et voila, who's a racist?
2: A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race.
3: A genealogical line; a lineage.
4: Humans considered as a group.
The word racist and the ideology of racism are important. They mean something and are not to be taken lightly. By invoking them at the drop of a hat as a lame ploy to garner sympathy or gain conquest we do nothing more than cry wolf. It denigrates their meaning and makes them as useless as the punchline to a knock-knock joke.
Adolf Hitler is an important historical figure. He did great things. Most of them were abhorrent, but they were great in magnitude nonetheless. It is important that we never forget who he was, what he stood for, and what he did. History has documented this in great detail. The geek down at Starbucks who got your coffee wrong, the jerk who just cut you off in traffic, or your megalomaniacal boss are not like Hitler. Let's all be thankful for that.
