/polpol/ - Politically Incorrect Discussion

From NPR

>The Oxford English Dictionary's first recorded utterance of the word racism was by a man named Richard Henry Pratt in 1902. Pratt was railing against the evils of racial segregation.

>"Segregating any class or race of people apart from the rest of the people kills the progress of the segregated people or makes their growth very slow. Association of races and classes is necessary to destroy racism and classism."

Richard Henry Pratt is the earliest I can find with evidence of the word being used.

The term "raciste" comes from French fascists, but from Gaston Mery in the late 19th century not Philippe Lamour and both Lamour and Trotsky's use of the term is a subversion of the meaning of the word.

"Raciste" would be more accurately rendered "Racialism" or Racial Identitarianism in its' original context. Gaston Mery was an antisemite, and a true fascist. Lamour was a "Revolutionary Fascist"; part of the French 'non-comformist' movement that rejected doctrinaire fascism. Their ideology is closer to Social Democracy than it is to fascism.

>>7183
Gaston Mery was publishing his journals in the 1890s. It's possible that it predates him in other far-right newsletters and journals that were not preserved, but it's almost certainly a 19th century French term used by the far-right to describe their worldview that was coopted by the Left and turned into a slur.

Of course "Fascist" is a slur as well.

>>7164
>>7183
looks like we can agree that it is just a buzzword used for political dissidents though huh

>>7164
Everyone knows they turned the word that once meant "racialism" into a word that means thought crime.

it was weaponised by the communists, thats all that matters.

>>11347
ew, don't bring dead kike threads back to life

>>7186
>>7164

I feel like it started amongst the so called "intelligentsia" class of people to identify the idea that races are different, in many ways. What we would now call "race reality"

Yet it's post-modern definition is more of a buzzword aimed at anyone that doesn't support the status quo.

>>11347
Morons posting false info like the OP pic hurts the credibility of the Right, so it very much does matter.

>>7183
>The Oxford English Dictionary's first recorded utterance of the word racism was by a man named Richard Henry Pratt in 1902. Pratt was railing against the evils of racial segregation.

Pratt's practice of Americanization of Native Americans by forced cultural assimilation, which he effected both at Fort Marion and Carlisle, was later regarded by some as a form of cultural genocide. He believed that to claim their rightful place as American citizens, Native Americans needed to renounce their tribal way of life, convert to Christianity, abandon their reservations, and seek education and employment among the "best classes" of Americans. In his writings he described his belief that the government must "kill the Indian…to save the man".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Henry_Pratt