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"Indians" don't merely exist as a cultural concept in spaghetti westerns, and even if they did, fantastic racism is still racism.

Buuuut for fun, I'll engage with your pivot to definition, and I'll just add this quote for context that appears in the link you provided. Juuuust below your listed definitions.

Dictionaries are often treated as the final arbiter in arguments over a word's meaning, but they are not always well suited for settling disputes. The lexicographer's role is to explain how words are (or have been) actually used, not how some may feel that they should be used, and they say nothing about the intrinsic nature of the thing named or described by a word, much less the significance it may have for individuals.

Isn't that amazing? "They say nothing about the intrinsic nature of the thing named or described by a word." Your authority explicitly states that they shouldn't be used as an authority in this context! Remarkable...

And now, in addition, I'll provide the rest of that passage, which is also the absolute end of me interacting with you in this manner.

When discussing concepts like racism, therefore, it is prudent to recognize that quoting from a dictionary is unlikely to either mollify or persuade the person with whom one is arguing.

Not only not meant to be used as an authority, but also unlikely to settle any dispute you might have about the word.

I'll take their advice. You can reply however you like- my interest in this conversation has vanished. Hopefully someone more patient will come along.

Racism doesn't have to have intent. Racism can't exist in a vacuum- that's true- but the only context it needs is the concept of race.

A fantastic example would be rolling up all the Native American tribe into one group. Or attributing anything, even conceptually, to that group.

You don't have to be aware that this is incorrect for it to qualify as racism, and you don't have to have an intent about making that attribution to be wrong in doing so.

This argument holds no water.

The idea that it's exempt from accusations of racism because it's unaware that it's being racist just doesn't track.

I've never seen this before and I'm horrified.

It was 20 years ago so- to whoever needs to hear this- the road to healing is a long one, and sometimes it feels like you're not moving at all, but time will take you where you want to be. Just keep at it, work on your behaviors, learn how to clean up your thoughts, and you'll get there.

What are you, my driver's license?

They think Kamala sounds foreign enough to make the racists mad.

See also "Barack HUSSEIN Obama." Which Trump uses regularly on his dumb website.

The only time I ever shut up my bitch of a mother bout politics was shortly after Obama won and she was complaining about something stupid.

"What happened to, 'It's un-American to complain about the Commander-in-Chief?' "

"You complained about Bush all the time!"

"Because I believe it's my civic responsibility to hold my leaders accountable. But you said over and over that was wrong. Did you change your mind, or is it only un-American to criticize the president you like?"

She was (probably still is) a malignant narcissist, so I paid for that, but the satisfaction of seeing her grasp for straws was worth it.

Lacking originality is exactly what one might argue "traditional" means.

No one agreed to Fox first. Trump is lying about that.

Semi-related; my boyfriend asked me a question about politics and I ended a sentence with, "-and they'll be first against the wall when the revolution comes," with all the tongue-in-cheek a person can manage.

And while I had half a second to congratulate myself on my delivery, he asked me what that meant.

Still mortified.

It's so hilariously obvious what he's doing, too! "We also want a debate on Fox on the 4th."

So you can get her on your turf, have Fox attack her, and then claim because of some bullshit reason that her behavior on the 4th means you won't do the one on the 10th? Fuck that. No more playing children's games.

You lose! Good day sir!

Both my cat and I would be absolutely devastated.

I have no idea. I haven't personally dated any. Just (as far as I know) cis people.

I'll look at revising my data if I break up with my current partner. I don't expect that to happen anytime soon, though.

My Dad died almost 20 years ago and I went NC with my abusive mother at about the same time. I never knew my grandparents.

I wanted to add my data to the set, even if it doesn't help much.

An apt comparison, since Zoidberg is a fine physician... for aliens.

That photo of him! Every person in it is so genuinely happy! Brought tears to my eyes.

Anecdotally, I'm seeing a lot of parents with kids as old as 10 in carts at the grocery store, and those kids are sitting there staring at a tablet or a phone.

As young as 2, also.

It's constant and nonstop and they don't look up for anything.

I'm concerned.

I didn't know Carlin said this, but the funny thing about it is, any bi person will tell you it's the truth. You have to pick between dating crazy, or stupid.

I'm right there with you.

Why'd I get stabbed out of nowhere like that?