Lawrenceville is in western NJ, near Princeton and Trenton. It's not southern NJ. Also, you're pulling up a blog from nearly a decade ago featuring mostly boardwalk merchandise.

The White people in that area? It's one of the richest, most liberal parts of New Jersey. The 15th district is +26 Democrat.

Except most people probably understandand the sociological definition. They just disagree with it. Their are multiple reasons for this.

I agree that the treatment doesn't compare completely.

We can be friends, but I don't buy that definition of racism AT ALL. Most people won't. It is primarily self-serving, and ignores the lack of power that most people have, white or not.

"Racism". All done.

There seems to be some sort of implication that "Oh, it's racial prejudice" and therefore "A OK" - is that what you are saying?

Sociology is what is referred to kindly as a "soft science". What words they choose to make up are of interest only to themselves.

The dictionary isn't the best resource to get insight into sociological issues, but it is the best place to determine the meaning of the word. I will stand by the dictionary in this case, like I do in every case, regardless of whatever politics or other issues might be involved.

Thank you for you contibution. But, as I already wrote, I'm not derailing the conversation happening on this thread to satisfy your interests. I'm sure someone will engage with you on what is, I agree, an important topic. But on this thread, I will not. Thank you.

If Brown was mocking white gay guys would Peterson explode into pieces trying to justify mocking white men and condemn mocking gay men?

Yes, I understand that there is a definition of racism that is power-involving. But the point is that there are non-power-involving definitions of racism, and these non-power-involving definitions of racism are just as legitimate as the power-involving definitions because racism is a multivalent term. It doesn't do to…

EXACTLY like them. Yes. If you're advocating doing it to them then you're no better. If you don't get that then you're sociopath or a fool.

Yeah. And all those frat boys and sorority chicks are just making fun of a select group of black people when they dress up like them and wear Afro or dreadlock wigs. So you're going to give them a pass, too? Of course not. You're saying this is okay because the "asshole white guys" can take it. They're not…

Fair point, racial prejudice covers a great deal of the kinds of non-power-involving racism we see in the world; but since many, many, many people (and some pretty well-respected dictionaries) use racism in a non-power-involving way (and since the history of the term is multivalent with regards to power), it seems…

I honestly believe mocking the appearance of others is wrong. That's what I believe. All this moral relativism and making of excuses for what she and others have done, white, black, Asian, whatever, is bullshit.

Reasoned arguments don't belong here.

Dude, she is as guilty as any white guy or gal who's put on a pimp/whore outfit or "gang" outfit, and an Afro wig, and declared themselves "ghetto". And, seriously, get off the goddamn cross of "white people stole our music/slang/clothes!" We live in a globalized world were cross-pollination is GOING to happen and…

The term "racism" seems to be used in different ways by different people. Obviously modern liberals and progressives take the term to imply a power structure, but lots of definitions of racism don't implicitly involve a power dynamic. Here are some other ways racism is defined: "the belief that some races to be…

"A "critical mass of faculty members and students" felt that it was inappropriate for a student leader to make fun of members of the community she had been tasked with representing. Peterson herself seems to recognize as much and admitted that the photo was a mistake."