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post Wed 22nd February 2012, 4:02am
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Racism

They seem to have some idea what the definition is but not in the first lines of the article.

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Racism is the belief that inherent different traits in human racial groups justify discrimination. In the modern English language, the term "racism" is used predominantly as a pejorative epithet. It is applied especially to the practice or advocacy of racial discrimination of a pernicious nature (i.e. which harms particular groups of people), and which is often justified by recourse to racial stereotyping or pseudo-science. Racism is popularly associated with various activities that are illegal or commonly considered harmful, such as extremism, hatred, xenophobia, (malignant or forced) exploitation, separatism, racial supremacy, mass murder (for the purpose of genocide), genocide denial, vigilantism (hate crimes, terrorism), etc.


Chock full of garbled English and debatable definitions (that differ from Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com).

Also note the gigantic Bank of America banner in the middle of the article.
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Whatever team of POV pushers made the "racial separatism" articles probably called themselves "racialists" rather than racists, but it's still racism...

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sourced statement saying "NOI founder Farad Muhammad (W.D. Fard) taught the white race was produced thousands of years ago in a failed laboratory experiment by an evil wizard named Yacub", but most Islam does not actually teach that - That seems rather relevant to the divide to me? --Mistress Selina Kyle (Α⇔Ω ¦ ⇒✉) 07:47, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
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start over with a new article, using neutral sources like The Black Muslims in America, The Nation of Islam: Understanding the Black Muslims, Black Muslim Religion in the Nation of Islam, etc. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 05:48, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
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A hate group is a hate group is a hate group, would you suggest to do the same to the klan article? 'Nuff said. As for your sources, they're not even linked to anything, and the titles don't even look remotely neutral. Hearfourmewesique (talk) 05:54, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
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I have been avoiding this argument and the reverting on purpose due to how heated this is getting, like I suspect Will Beback has since his last comments above - but I thought someone else should chip in here: There is no difference between racial supremacy and "racial separatism", no different than how racists prefer to call themselves "racialists", I have dealt with people from very racist websites before attempting to push their crap... Sure, the KKK may say they don't want to kill people but just put everyone who doesn't fit their standards on a boat somewhere "separate", but that's still racial supremacism... Do you really really think anyone would agree with you Malik that apartheid is NOT a kind of racial supremacism? Face-sad.svg MLK would be ashamed to have his picture attached to your defending of these kind of people Face-sad.svg "NOI founder Farad Muhammad (W.D. Fard) taught that the white race was produced thousands of years ago in a failed laboratory experiment by an evil wizard named Yacub. (“The Nation of Islam: The Relentless Record of Hate.” Anti-Defamation League (New York):1995. p.3) They state that it is impossible for blacks and whites to co-exist. (“The Nation of Islam: The Relentless Record of Hate.” Anti-Defamation League (New York):1995. p.22)" (the userbox on my page used to be MLK before "the userbox wars" started) --Mistress Selina Kyle (Α⇔Ω ¦ ⇒✉) 05:56, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Do you have a WP:COI issue with this article?

"Separatism" is one and the same as supremacy as I said, it is intrinsically connected to a racist viewpoint of the world, I don't see how you could have taken my comments any other way or are choosing to misunderstand... Do you think separatism, apartheid is not racist? Because nearly anyone else would disagree... --Mistress Selina Kyle (Α⇔Ω ¦ ⇒✉) 18:44, 11 February 2012 (UTC)


I can't think of anyone outside the internet who would agree with you there... As well as apartheid, the nazis used to explain away concentration camps to the majority of the populace as "sending Jews away", and then you have all the modern racist organisations constantly talk about "separating" people that don't fit the race they want by "sending them away" too... It's one and the same... Different methods, same ideology --Mistress Selina Kyle (Α⇔Ω ¦ ⇒✉) 12:16, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

As much as I'd like to get sucked into this debate (not being sarcastic), may I remind you that Wikipedia is not a forum. Hearfourmewesique (talk) 12:39, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

That's a bit insulting, my point is as I already said before the argument as to whether people calling for separating races because they think they are inferior are racial supremacists, or not, is a red herring when it is racism by definition... You are saying that sources saying they want to divide people up on race cannot be used to prove they are racists, when it is racism by definition... --Mistress Selina Kyle (Α⇔Ω ¦ ⇒✉) 19:58, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
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Your inability to distinguish between black supremacy and black separatism astounds me. Talk about common sense! — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 17:48, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
google.com/search?q=bnp "common sense"

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White separatism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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White separatism is a separatist political movement that seeks separate economic ... Samuel T. Francis · Nick Griffin (Current president of the BNP)
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Emperor   Racism   Wed 22nd February 2012, 4:02am
Selina   Oh, somehow the racists managed to get a separate ...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 4:35am
Malik Shabazz   Oh, somehow the racists managed to get a separate...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 8:08pm
Mister Die   It's very obvious sometimes that certain artic...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 6:26am
Emperor   It's very obvious sometimes that certain arti...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 12:53pm
Mister Die   If I were a neonazi this would be exactly the arti...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 3:53pm
Emperor   [quote name='Emperor' post='298677' date='Wed 22n...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 4:36pm
radek   [quote name='Emperor' post='298677' date='Wed 22n...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 4:36pm
Mister Die   Yeah, I'm aware that only inept types just go ...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 5:45pm
radek   Yeah, I'm aware that only inept types just go...   Thu 23rd February 2012, 2:12am
Selina   Whatever team of POV pushers made the "racial...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 8:54pm
Emperor   Also note the gigantic [b]Bank of America banner ...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 9:05pm
EricBarbour   Now, you guys are onto something. The secret of co...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 9:27pm
Selina   "zionist" is pretty much used as a codew...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 9:47pm
nableezy   "zionist" is pretty much used as a code...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 9:54pm
Malik Shabazz   "zionist" is pretty much used as a cod...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 10:07pm
nableezy   [quote name='nableezy' post='298738' date='Wed 22...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 10:10pm
Kelly Martin   She seemed to be saying that when somebody uses th...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 10:12pm
nableezy   [quote name='nableezy' post='298742' date='Wed 22...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 10:17pm
Wikifan   give me a break. you're biased just like eve...   Thu 23rd February 2012, 10:11am
Mister Die   It shouldn't be too hard to find sources that ...   Thu 23rd February 2012, 10:51am
lilburne   Ez9JCSIEbpY Just a reminder.   Wed 22nd February 2012, 10:12pm
Cunningly Linguistic   Ez9JCSIEbpY Just a reminder. A great and thoug...   Thu 23rd February 2012, 12:19pm
lilburne   A great and thought provoking speech from my MP (...   Thu 23rd February 2012, 1:26pm
Cunningly Linguistic   A great and thought provoking speech from my MP ...   Tue 28th February 2012, 6:23pm
Detective   I thought you said you DIDN'T live in a Live...   Tue 28th February 2012, 10:55pm
lilburne   [quote name='Cunningly Linguistic' post='299730' ...   Thu 1st March 2012, 12:47pm
Cunningly Linguistic   [quote name='Cunningly Linguistic' post='299730'...   Thu 1st March 2012, 12:51pm
Fusion   A great and thought provoking speech from my MP (...   Thu 23rd February 2012, 9:42pm
Selina   I never said it always means it, no - but neo-nazi...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 10:13pm
Selina   The fact that mentioning "jew" around so...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 10:20pm
nableezy   The fact that mentioning "jew" around s...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 10:20pm
Emperor   And where [b]pray tell did this happen? [b]SOCK...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 11:12pm
nableezy   And where [b]pray tell did this happen? [b]SOC...   Wed 22nd February 2012, 11:24pm
EricBarbour   :yecch:   Wed 22nd February 2012, 11:52pm
Emperor   Anyway Radek, Mr Die, Selina, thank you for your t...   Thu 23rd February 2012, 12:51am
radek   Anyway Radek, Mr Die, Selina, thank you for your ...   Thu 23rd February 2012, 2:05am
Selina   Malik Zulu Shabazz, leader of the New Black Panthe...   Thu 23rd February 2012, 2:58am
radek   Malik Zulu Shabazz, leader of the New Black Panth...   Thu 23rd February 2012, 3:02am
Emperor   [quote name='Selina' post='298791' date='Wed 22nd...   Thu 23rd February 2012, 3:12am
Malik Shabazz   [quote name='Selina' post='298791' date='Wed 22n...   Thu 23rd February 2012, 6:09am
Selina   I wish I didn't know who that was Emperor... ...   Thu 23rd February 2012, 3:18am
radek   Well, yes, I know who Malik is named after. And ...   Thu 23rd February 2012, 3:33am
Selina   They murdered him only two days later.   Thu 23rd February 2012, 3:43am
radek   They murdered him only two days later. And how ...   Thu 23rd February 2012, 3:44am
Selina   Because he supports them... wikipediareview.com/?s...   Thu 23rd February 2012, 3:47am
radek   Because he supports them... [url=http://wikipedia...   Thu 23rd February 2012, 3:55am
Selina   I'm not talking about the sources, I'm tal...   Thu 23rd February 2012, 4:01am
radek   I'm not talking about the sources, I'm ta...   Thu 23rd February 2012, 4:02am
Selina   Read the whole post instead of just skimming it th...   Thu 23rd February 2012, 4:05am
radek   Read the whole post instead of just skimming it t...   Thu 23rd February 2012, 4:09am
Selina   The sad thing is though that this thread was crap ...   Thu 23rd February 2012, 1:22pm
Malik Shabazz   @Malik: "WP:V"? That's not the kind...   Thu 23rd February 2012, 6:46pm
Herschelkrustofsky   Mod's note: Selina has blocked Nableezy until ...   Thu 23rd February 2012, 9:51pm
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