The hypocrisy of 'reverse racism.'

It's pretty common for people of a certain political point of view to talk about racism against whites and how civil rights advocates are actually anti-white.  That's it's whites who are the real victims here.  And when you ask such people if their apparent antipathy toward non-whites make them racist, they will generally answer with something to the effect of, "No, because racism is the belief that the color of someone's skin makes them inferior, and I don't believe that."

Fair enough.

But that does raise one small question.  When has anyone ever suggested that whites are inferior?  I personally have never run across anyone claiming that.  Now I'm sure that if you scour the far reaches of the internet you can find someone who's said such a thing, as is true of virtually any statement.  But that's besides the point.  That's not what any civil rights groups are saying.

So it's clear that these folks have one narrow definition of racism when it's whites being racist against non-whites, and a very different, very broad definition of racism when it's racism against whites.

Yes, it's certainly true that there are a lot of people out there who are angry at whites.  Can you honestly say that they don't have good reason?  And there are even people who hate whites.  But if you want to call that out as racism, you have to accept that makes whites who dislike other races racist as well.  We're all human.  We all get angry and resentful when we feel we've been wronged.  We all fear the outsiders.  There's nothing wrong with having those feelings.  But letting yourself be ruled by that fear and acting on it, lashing out at others is wrong.