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Affirmitive Action. Like the answer or not, any piece of legislation devised for the purpose of promoting unequal treatment of any person based on race, creed, or color is racism. This is not to take away from Equal Opportunity.

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a more researched answer would be that rasicm is used to insult someone of a different background, and can be used by class discrimination (i.e. giving only black people cleaning jobs) or insults (i.e. calling a person a scottish twit) or bullying (i.e. pouring white paint on a dark-skinned person).

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