Professor Makes Career out of Racism

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-donald-trump-racist-20171010-story.html

Civil rights advocates, social scientists and regular citizens have all called out President Donald Trump as a racist in recent weeks. The president’s supporters have countered with stories about the blacks and Latinos he has hired or befriended, and with personal testimonies: “I’ve known Donald Trump for many years. He doesn’t have a racist bone in his body.”

As a professor who researches and teaches courses on the health effects of race, racism and inequality, I can assure you that the president’s defenders are wrong. Trump is a racist. What he says and does meets the scholarly definition of the term

Scholars break racism into multiple categories:

• Structural racism: Assigning social value to human populations contingent on misperceptions of inherent differences.
• Symbolic racism: Rhetoric that delegitimizes others.
• Institutional racism: Incorporating and formalizing misperceptions of differences into society through public policy.
• Interpersonal racism: Acting on such misperceptions in direct or face-to-face interactions.
• Insidious racism: Unconscious belief in and perpetuation of these phenomena.
• Internalized racism: Among victimized populations, accepting and manifesting negative portrayals.
• Systemic racism: The influence of these phenomena at multiple levels and across multiple dimensions of society.

Trump’s insensitive, disrespectful and mean-spirited statements and actions partake of all these variations.

My comments published:

The Professor has made a career out of "racism". The advantage here is you can make up a universe of "racism" subdivisions which will provide research material for other PHDs in the social sciences. By defining so many sub-sets of "racism" he and his colleagues can find one to fit any behavior by white people. This has become a cottage industry in Academia and "Social Activist" circles. And the best part of all is that his chosen target cannot disprove the "racist" label because you cannot prove a negative (Logic 101).