What counts as racism?
A reference page for definitions, counterarguments, global examples, and the weak spots in “power + prejudice” claims.
Debate notes - evidence first
Arguments mapped like a world at night
A home base for the topics I keep returning to: racism, Palestine, the Rohingya, the Uyghurs, occupation, rights, and the way people start bending words once the evidence gets uncomfortable. The aim is not noise. The aim is clarity.
Racism page
Palestine arguments
Rohingya arguments
Uyghur arguments
Congo arguments
Burakumin arguments
Roma arguments
Darfur arguments
Nigeria arguments
Note: the racism page lives on Netlify rather than in this repo, because that is where the working “ask me questions” form is hosted.
Occupation, law, and self-determination.
A calmer argument: not every point is a chant, not every criticism is antisemitism, and not every civilian death can be brushed aside by saying “security.”
The Rohingya, and a genocide case still waiting.
Statelessness written into law in 1982, a military campaign documented as it happened, and a case now sitting with the International Court of Justice.
The Uyghurs, and the state’s own paperwork.
Mass detention decided by algorithm, a UN finding of possible crimes against humanity, and a genocide claim that has to be stated precisely to survive.
The racism nobody calls racism.
Identity cards printed by colonial administrators, citizenship laws written in 1981, and the deadliest war since 1945 still treated as background noise.
The Burakumin, and nothing but the paperwork.
Same language, same religion, same ancestry, same country — and a family registry that says which village your line came from. The case with no variable left to hide behind.
The Roma, and Europe’s own racism.
Five centuries of heritable slavery, a genocide unacknowledged until 1982, court-proven school segregation, and sterilisations that ran until 2012. White perpetrators, white victims.
Darfur, and the only conviction on this site.
Everyone involved is Muslim and African, and people are still sorted at checkpoints by a category the state built. The same militia, twice, twenty years apart, under two names.
The racism that runs on a certificate.
A job, a university place and sometimes a passport depend on a document certifying which people you descend from. Legislated, operating today, and nobody involved is white.
The standard should not move.
The project is built around one rule: use the same definitions even when they become inconvenient. If a principle only works when it protects your side, it is not a principle. It is decoration.