Word Origin & History
racist
1932 as a noun, 1938 as an adjective, from race (n.2); racism is first attested 1936 (from Fr. racism, 1935), originally in the context of Nazi theories. But they replaced earlier words, racialism (1907) and racialist (1917), both often used at first in a British or South African context. Someone accused Obama of being a racist, and I got to wondering exactly what the word meant. I've often heard the term used, and I thought I knew what it meant, and then, I wondered.
Does a racist believe in race? They do exist. Look at the definition, "originally in the context of Nazi theories." I found that interesting.
Was a white man who did not like Indians, a racist? I never heard them referred to in that way. "Hey, pardner, you're a racist." Never heard that in an old western movie.
Germans against Jews, racists, never heard that used, but I was not there. I thought the term racists sprang up in regards to whites and blacks, and really became inflammatory word, the term could incite riots. The word racist became very negative, yet it seems like it meant, whites that don't like blacks.
Racist is a pejorative word.
But Obama was accused of being a racist, a half black, half white that doesn't like whites. The way it was used meant, he doesn't like whites.
A racer participates in races, or perhaps is a car that participates in races.
If you run, you are a runner, not a racer, even though you run in a race.
When you start looking up "racist" there didn't seem to be any Clerc definition, the word that really got my attention was "facist".
Fascism, pronounced /ˈfæʃɪzəm/, comprises a radical and authoritarian nationalist political ideology and a corporatist economic ideology.
Fascists believe that nations and/or races are in perpetual conflict whereby only the strong can survive by being healthy, vital, and by asserting themselves in conflict against the weak.
Fascists advocate the creation of a single-party state.
Fascist governments forbid and suppress criticism and opposition to the government and the fascist movement.
Fascism opposes class conflict, blames capitalist liberal democracies for its creation and communists for exploiting the concept.
In the economic sphere, many fascist leaders have claimed to support a "Third Way" in economic policy, which they believed superior to both the rampant individualism of unrestrained capitalism and the severe control of state communism.
This was to be achieved by establishing significant government control over business and labour (Mussolini called his nation's system "the corporate state").
No common and concise definition exists for fascism and historians and political scientists disagree on what should be in any concise definition.
That gives us all something to think about.
