Yann Forget wrote:
It's me who put this in the "racialisme"
article. The word may be used by
quite some people, but I really think that it was invented by racist groups
and people to justify racism. Links in Google don't and can't justify
anything.
I agree that when the word racialism(e) was invented it may well have
been by racist groups. This seems to have happened around 1900. They
may very well have done it to make their racist views more acceptable.
For many of their opponents there was no difference at all between
racialism and racism. For others the distinction was a useful one.
Accepting that distinction did not make them racist. Nobody owns the word.
And I also redirected the articles about "racisme
anti-blanc" and "racisme à
l'envers" to "racisme". Personnally I don't think such articles
should be in
Wikipedia. I think that it doesn't improve the quality and reputation of
Wikipedia.
Why shouldn't they be? If these phenomena exist, they need to be
described fairly. That doesn't mean agreeing with them. A racist
article and an article about racism are two different things.
However, I do not support the idea to block people who
write racist articles.
It's counter-productive. It's better to correct their articles and show them
the limit (as defined by the law in France). And this as long as they are few
and we can correct their articles.
The difficulty here is who decides what French law means?
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