Racism is when white people hold ‘negative views’ of others, claims senior Labour adviser

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/27/racism-is-when-white-people-hold-negative-views-of-others/

by Aggressive_Plates

22 comments

  3. So are we all allowed to change the definition of words to suit our personal agenda? If so anyone got any good recommendations?

  4. Honestly a pretty racist thing to go around saying…

    Jesus. All they had to do was omit the “white” part. Utter incompetence…

  5. Isn’t this view racist in itself as it singles out “whites”. I.e treating a race different based on skin colour.

  6. From the article:

    “Written by Maya Sharma, a strategic adviser for the programme, it claims that: “Racism is, fundamentally, the belief that white people and their ways of thinking, culture, political systems and histories are superior to that of other ‘races’.””

    Thanks Maya, I think your hard work will go a long way to furthering social cohesion and acceptance that everyone should be judged on who they are, their actions and how they treat others.

    Except if you are white, because fuck that bunch of rascist oppressors right? /s

    Maya, you are a cretin in my view for perpetuating this idiocy.

  7. First thing of note: the Telegraph changed the quote, 

    The full quote is :

    >  “Racism is, fundamentally, the belief that white people and their ways of thinking, culture, political systems and histories are superior to that of other ‘races’.”

    So, actually not *that* much better. What she cites is absolutely a form of racism, and the most common in the U.K and the most influential form Of racism as it’s also systemic.

    BUT it’s not the only way people in the U.K. can be racist. And using divisive language in a program designed to prevent divisiveness is so dumb. 

    Just remove the word ‘white’ from that statement and it’s perfectly fine. Or say ‘the most common form of racism is’. 

    Stuff like this really annoys me because you literally ruin what may be a really important piece of work just because you didn’t proof read your work properly. 

  8. thats not what racism is, perhaps a dictionary, or a google definition is in order? I mean I know the word Racist/Racism was hijacked to mean literally anything but, this however is just blatantly stupid

  10. This screams I’ve never visited other countries (or at least only predominantly white ones)

    Most racist place I’ve ever visited was Fiji, my mind was blown.

  11. People like this should be given a megaphone so we all know what they mean.

  13. Ah, I see She’s defined ‘racist’ in such a way that it’s impossible for her to be racist, so she never has to acknowledge her own racism.

    Rather convenient for her.

  17. Maybe I’m stricken by critical thinking disease, but the article doesn’t actually link to the resource that apparently contains the brief snippets the article has quoted. I’d like to make my own decision and judgements of the actual resource rather than taking this second hand review given to us by the Telegraph.

  19. How on earth is someone like her in power, an utter bigot.

    Does she not realise that the vast majority of people living in Britain are white…

  20. Main thing to point out here is the egregious headline where they call this person a senior labour advisor when she absolutely is not a labour advisor

  21. “Power plus privilege” definition straight out of US race discourse. Our social attitudes towards racism are generally a lot more rounded that that.

    It ignores the fact that inter-ethnic racism is a thing. In the US there has been racism and racial tensions between Black Americans and Latin Americans and Asian Americans. By that definition it can’t be racism because even if race is a factor, neither group is privileged or holds positions of power.

    I don’t get it either.

    Racism simply is discrimination on grounds of race. That’s all it needs to be defined as. There may be cultural contexts for that discrimination, but you’re not gonna tackle it by taking a one-side approach.

  22. idiot – first result on google : [prejudice](https://www.google.com/search?num=10&sca_esv=853f175af13f0422&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB1080GB1080&sxsrf=ADLYWILvyTs4un54Ttwku5rDmdFIM2bwDQ:1730196221997&q=prejudice&si=ACC90nytWkp8tIhRuqKAL6XWXX-N1Cmm5HYiPz5eL78MepTtPTzVyRYABk-XBoPOYNHPVMdQP9IAwheOg1Xk3Fstu_HTLrdAJB36O3vRDHvEd4CHAI0TaIw%3D&expnd=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjGr9CZq7OJAxUrTUEAHdzHCUQQyecJegQIJBAO), discrimination, or [antagonism](https://www.google.com/search?num=10&sca_esv=853f175af13f0422&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB1080GB1080&sxsrf=ADLYWILvyTs4un54Ttwku5rDmdFIM2bwDQ:1730196221997&q=antagonism&si=ACC90nyOnVY18Aw7zUtkWPYo5mTn8DOZWV303XlciL3EybiG5OQF98HdWm-FBhLOTVUapASMBKEkz4–JLphrMfiNf0uOthsGvUYRrch7_1Vr4Xaf17VnV8%3D&expnd=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjGr9CZq7OJAxUrTUEAHdzHCUQQyecJegQIJBAP) by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or [marginalized](https://www.google.com/search?num=10&sca_esv=853f175af13f0422&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB1080GB1080&sxsrf=ADLYWILvyTs4un54Ttwku5rDmdFIM2bwDQ:1730196221997&q=marginalized&si=ACC90nxgkPHmtVkpPj_lUgtQ0AentQJG8keko5il4ujIaudtme4QezoGUcwNFBrzHdO5-laI02fIwzGOTzrFM-SeaX1PN-1ngGt-Iow3_DWSqITsfp7drew%3D&expnd=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjGr9CZq7OJAxUrTUEAHdzHCUQQyecJegQIJBAQ). -could have just googled …

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