Blathe,

There is nothing wrong with controversy. At issue is if the controversial subject can be discussed without rancor or incivility. This is an adult site, this is a General Chat forum. We will all benefit if we all behave with sufficient restraint.

Many people, I among them, consider “reverse racism” to be redundant, as “Rio Grand river”. I’m sure we agree that racism of either stripe is a serious problem.

I think the numbers don’t support the notion that reverse racism is more prevalent than the traditional type. I believe that the largest racial group in the U.S. is Caucasian. Now if this is true - and I believe that it is, then I am drawn to the conclusion that the only way that reverse racism (one directed towards Caucasians) could be more prevalent than the traditional type (one directed towards Negros) would be if all members of all other racial groups were prejudiced against Caucasians.

Now this assumes a high prevalence of traditional racism among Caucasians. It would be interesting to run the numbers to see where the break points occur. If the average Caucasian was not a racist, then the ratio of non-Caucasian racists to non-racists could be lower. But why would one expect a different ratio of racist to non-racist between races? To do so is to accept that some races are more racist than others – which is itself a racist position.

Now if one assumes that there is roughly the same prevalence of racism across racial groups, the largest racial group inevitably contains the largest number of racists. Alas, the customary target of white racial prejudice in the U.S. were the blacks.

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