quasiracism

noun

Etymology

From quasi- + racism.

  1. borrowed from racisme
  2. prefixed as quasiracism — “quasi + racism

Definitions

  1. Practices and institutions that result in racist distinctions and discrimination, but…

    Practices and institutions that result in racist distinctions and discrimination, but which are not consciously motivated by racist ideology.

    • This suggests that commentators such as Mahmood would do well to understand that quasiracism does not underlie all attacks on Islam.
    • Of course there was the ever-present overall general underlying widespread everyday quasiracism made that much more intense by the scrutiny of the state of South Carolina by the NAACP and others.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for quasiracism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA