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1. (reverse racism) (1479↑, 363↓)
I'm going out on a limb here people, but bear with me... Reverse racism, in actuality, shouldn't even be a term... It's described as the act of racism against a majority (typically used in context of whites). But...isn't that just plain old regular racism? Last time I checked, Caucasian WAS a race. And I'm willing to bet that any other majority suffering from "reverse racism" is a race too. So why isn't it just racism? Why give it a fancy new term? If you wanted to take the literal definition, reverse racism would actually be the opposite: supporting a race as equal to another. Just a thought.

Reverse racism- The act of being racist. In reverse.

2. (reverse racism) (721↑, 258↓)
More often than not, reverse racism is in the form of giving special benefits or opportunities to people who belong to a group which has been under privaleged in the past. In effect, you are essentially committing a racist act by giving preference to one person over another because of their race, religion, or ethnicity, rather than their personal merit, skills, or knowledge.

"That black kid started a fight with that white kid but we're only going to suspend the white kid because we don't want to be racist against black people." - Liberal Principal (or Conservative Principal scared of a lawsuit) "Wait, isn't that reverse racism?" - White kid "Shut up, you're suspended too\!" - Principal

3. (reverse racism) (334↑, 133↓)
Technically, there is no such thing; for, you see, racism is prejudice toward ANY race, including a dominant one. With that out of the way... "Reverse-racism" is a term for racism directed toward the majority or dominant "race" in a society; usually, it is an accidental byproduct of an attempt to protect an oppressed minority from racism.

Reverse racism is a classic example of hypocrisy. When a black-skinned person screams "Black Power\!", he/she is standing up for his rights. When a white-skinned person yells "White Power\!", he/she is a racist...

4. (Reverse Racism) (324↑, 194↓)
The act of one culture using something that would be considered racism coming from another culture to benifit themselves. If one culture did it, it's acceptable. If another did the same thing, it would be wrong.

Blacks calling each other niggers, while whites cannot. Blacks having a special TV station(BET, award shows, and even their own month, and whites not having this.

5. (reverse racism) (370↑, 254↓)
what should be the act of tolerance, but is instead associated with minorities hating majorities. Thus a white person being called "[cracker]" by a black person is not an example of racism, but reverse racism, because only white people can be racist, thus giving reverse racism a racist connotation.

"man, calling people reverse racists is fucked up. If you hate someone because of the color of their skin, you're a racist, no matter who the fuck you are you ignorant asshole"

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6. (Reverse Racism) (158↑, 59↓)
Reverse Racism describes the irony of a person using their race to gain special status or privileges while at the same time demanding others treat them as equals and look beyond the color of their skin.

An example of reverse racism would be a black person who condemns a company for hiring whites over blacks based solely on skin color, but at the same time demands blacks be hired over whites based solely on skin color.

7. (reverse racism) (123↑, 89↓)
1. A form of [intolerance] in which a person categorizes another person as a racist without any evidence of that persons actual character. 2. To automatically assume that one is [racist] because of their [race]. 3. To make racist slurs or jokes when claiming to be a victim of racism.

"How is it that you can call me a [snowflake] but I can't call you my [brotha]? That's like, reverse racism\!"

8. (reverse racism) (59↑, 42↓)
Reverse racism is restricting opportunities of a race because they are the majority, giving minorities an advantage solely based on their race.

Marnie (caucasion) will have a tougher time getting into college than Tyrone (native american) because of reverse racism.

9. (Reverse racism) (38↑, 27↓)
reverse racism is the pot calling the kettle black essentially. it's fighting racism with racism, hence REVERSE racism. it's not a 'fancy new term' describing a person. you can say something that's reverse racist, and you can display reverse racism, but you yourself cannot be reverse racist. you'd just be racist.

Malcolm X saw oppression from Caucasians against minorities due to racist ideologies. In turn, he decided to say fuck all Caucasians and became racist himself(until a few years before his death) Hence, he was reversing the racism on himself and starting to do the same thing Caucasians were doing to minorities. This is how reverse racism may be defined - An act or ideology, not a person.

10. (reverse racism) (37↑, 28↓)
When members of a race that is historically targeted, randomly accuse individuals of another race, of being racist, with no provocation, like a weapon.

reverse racism A-"Please don't do that." B-"Are you racist? Is this because of the color of my skin? Can't a blackman...."

11. (Reverse Racism) (19↑, 13↓)
The act of calling someone racist, or bringing race into something in order to win, it involves calling someone of another color racist therefore silencing them, this is using race to get ahead and is in fact just as racist as someone barring you form doing something based on color or creed

White Guy: Dude, you shouldn't have stolen my Tc race_Card_user: Its because I'm \<Inset Creed/Color here\> Isn't it White Guy: No its because its my TV i bought it with money i earned, what gives you a right to take it Race_Card_User: Your just racist, why do you assume i took it White Guy: Because your holding it race_card_user: Hey I'm not the one who brought race into it White Guy: This is just reverse Racism, your bringing race into this to win

12. (Reverse Racism) (6↑, 2↓)
A term created by white racists in an attempt to describe what they feel is racism against them as a majority blaming reverse racism for their failures. Mostly these claims often appear to be an attempt to deflect attention away from horrific racism of the past in the United States. Those claiming Reverse Racism are often young white males who've been affected by the recent attempts to right the wrongs of the past. Many times they themselves are secretly racist and often harbor racist ideals but look for opportunities to include minorities in the negatives while simultaneously resisting opportunities to include minorities in positive things. Reverse racism is often a way to show their insensitivity toward racial issues experienced by minorities that do not affect them directly.

A white guy cant get in college of his choice and claims reverse racism. Fact: only about 30% of student bodies in the U.S. are made up of minorities yet these individuals claim they cannot go to college due to reverse racism.

13. (reverse racism) (11↑, 8↓)
"Reverse Racism" is a term used to describe the act of racism from a minority group towards a majority group. It is a "politically correct" term used to make minorities feel better about themselves and to allow them to be racist without the connotations that come with being racist.

Jethro: "That nigger called me a "cracker" and said my skin is so white it caused his illegitimate mother to go blind. Damn racist nigger, that's what he is." Charles: "Jethro, you are so uneducated. That poor African-American man has been stepped upon by us white folk for hundreds of years. He deserves the right to be racist to you because his great-great-great-grandfather may have been a slave and because he has been humiliated all his life because he has been living on the tax dollars of other people and has never had to work a day in his life. Jethro when an African-American appears to be racist it is called "reverse racism"." Jethro: "That's some bull shit, that is some retarded, liberal bull shit. Niggers be racist just like whites be racist. Don't need to sugar coat the truth."

14. (reverse racism) (79↑, 81↓)
whether it should or should not be a term, reverse racim is: when black people (or any other group of people that would normally experience racism) are racist twords white people (or any other group of people who would normally be the racists)

I, as a black man, hate those white people. I sure do feel like a reverse racist.

15. (Reverse racism) (2↑, 6↓)
Making assumptions about a person's race based on generalizations about that person.

Scenario: A black person moves across the street from you. Racism: You think "There goes the neighborhood." Reverse Racism: You think "All black people just moved across the street from me."

16. (reverse racism) (4↑, 11↓)
Racism against groups that have higher average levels of intelligence then the group they are being discriminated against by. Is worse than normal racism because capable people (a limited resource) are being misused, and because people with lower IQ's have a harder time learning why and how to be objective... a task which is hard enough to begin with.

A 105 IQ Indian science professor frequently straw mans arguments (that he doesn't understand) of high IQ Caucasian students in his class or calls them lazy (Because they ace exams with less study time) and tries to punish their learning methods instead of lack of functional knowledge. This is reverse racism. A university has a quota system requiring them to admit blacks over whites with higher grades and IQ scores. etc

17. (reverse racism) (1↑, 10↓)
When people of a minority make decisions because they don't want to people to be racist toward them.

An Aboriginal school program not following cultural protocol because they are worried about "reverse racism", being judged as having money.

18. (reverse racism) (8↑, 18↓)
Reverse racism: giving favoritism to an individual or group within a subset of people on the basis of their belonging to that subset of people.

These actions are examples of reverse racism: Giving extra hours to workers on the basis of their national origin. "Pedro gets to work overtime because he's Mexican and Mexicans work." Hiring workers on the basis of their gender. Employer: "Congratulations Bimby, you got the job\!" Cindy: "Thank you so much\! But, my name is 'Cindy' not 'Bimby' silly\!" Loving someone because they are from a country you like. Infatuated woman: "You French people are so sexy\! I love you Pierre\!" Claude: "My name isn't Pierre... "

19. (Reverse racism) (10↑, 28↓)
Technically, it is a reaction to racism towards non-Caucasian people. It includes economic and political benefits in effort to compensate for past and ongoing social oppression experienced by non-Caucasians. Such oppression ranges from marginalization to physical abuse to childhood emotional scarring to the gym teacher shouting "DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH" to every Chinese kid he sees. But none of these examples are anywhere near as catastrophic when compared to a reactionary anti-white joke told by a black standup comedian. From this reasoning emerges the term "reverse racism". With respect to the term itself, "reverse racism" implies that there is backwards logic behind racism against Caucasians, and that it is somehow more deserving of disapproval than just regular racism. Furthermore, "racism" and "reverse racism" can be interpreted as binary oppositions, where "racism" is the (socially conditioned to be) acceptable state, while "reverse racism" is the unacceptable counterpart. Reverse racism can also be interpreted as a defense mechanism for "white man's guilt".

"Anyone who points out our race problems is a reverse racist." - the GOP "Reverse racism hurts my feelings." - racist

20. (reverse racism) (30↑, 48↓)
Using racist language either while driving a vehicle in reverse, whilst walking backwards or spelling racist words the wrong way round.

Judge Chris Rock: You have been found guilty of using racism whilst in reverse gear of a Pick-Up truck, this reverse racism will not and shall not be tolerated, how do you plead, cracker?

21. (reverse racism) (39↑, 62↓)
1. an act of racism by a minority, towards a majority. 2. an act of racism on a race which was previously suppressed by that race, or was a target of racism by the race in the past.

Blacks hating whites for suppressing them in the past is reverse racism.

22. (reverse racism) (4↑, 28↓)
the act of acting prejudice against someone of their own race, especially because that person does not fit the typical persona of a particular race.

Blacks calling another black person "white" because they act, to them, more like a white person than a black person. Calling someone a "white nigger" would be a prime example of reverse racism.

23. (reverse racism) (46↑, 74↓)
Compound noun. In its most basic sense, reverse racism implies the opposite of good old, healthy, classic racism the way it was always meant to be - against black people. A reliable source of white complaints about affirmative action and words like "cracker". Apparently, [hypocrisy]is an apt synonym, implying that non-whites have no right to weild the weapons of a damning social construct that was invented to be used against them for political and monetary gain. Isn't it obvious that today's reverse racism hurts white people far more than centuries of state-sanctioned violence and systematic oppression ever could?

Everyone would have forgotten all about the whole race issue by now if black people weren't constantly throwing reverse racism in our faces\!

24. (reverse racism) (27↑, 58↓)
The act of insuating that people the likes of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X, both civil rights activists, as well as organizations such as the NAACP, are racist. The irony of this argument is that it is usually applied by those already harboring racial prejudice, as the subjects in question were a product of, and necessitated by, racial injustice and motivations to correct it themselves. This may yield the argument that it is injustice that pro-White organizations cannot coexist, but there's a problem with this argument for three reasons: 1. Europeans/Caucasians have never been historically disadvantaged by racism; the irony is that America itself was founded by the extermination and subjugation of other races. 2. As a result of \#1, the dominant race of America was European/Caucasion, leaving other races a minority factor and this has not considerably changed in today's day and age in spite of its more multicultural population. 3. Pro-White organizations have a notoriety for asserting the ideology of White supremacy. White Nationalist organizations that have surfaced after the steady decline of the KKK are contended to be a sanitized face for White supremacy, since violent demonstrations of force were no longer acceptable. This is usually applied by those identifying with the political far right, who are historically anti-civil rights, as the KKK themselves were far right. It should also be noted that moderate conservative Abraham Lincoln caught a lot of flack for his civil rights views by his own party.

reverse racism in action: Person 1: Isn't it racist that the blacks have the BET channel, i.e. Black Entertainment Channel? What if white people had a "White Entertainment Channel." Blacks would be screaming about it\! Let's make this fair\! If we're going to pick and choose, then we need to look at both sides of the fence\! Person 2: Stop bitching. Mostly everything else on tv is targeted towards white people.

25. (reverse racism) (101↑, 140↓)
When a white person, in their attempt to take every last thing away from non-whites, claims to be a victim of racism in order to trivialize or deaden the impact of acts of racism perpetrated by whites.

"Well, we took chocolate and made that white, we turned Jazz into Kenny G, we turned Chinese Food into chicken balls, we turned rice into Uncle Ben's, we turned Funk into Disco, we turned Mexican Food into Taco Bell, we've colonized just about every Latin, Asian and African country, what's there left for us to take?? OHHHH\!\!\! Let's take RACISM, make it our own and call it 'reverse racism'\!\!" "I supported that poor black family whose son was beaten up by that gang of seven skinheads, until I realized that the black boy was using reverse racism on those poor young Nazis. That's right, the racism of those seven white boys was not as great as the reverse racism of that one black boy, whose influence and power clearly overwhelmed the poor white boys into beating him up."

26. (reverse racism) (42↑, 87↓)
When a Black person is racist against a white person

Yo that black guy is showing reverse racism.

27. (reverse racism) (55↑, 210↓)
A term coined by people of an ethnic or cultural majority to demonstrate the fact that they don't understand the adversity that minorities truly face on a daily basis.

Billy cried "reverse racism" when the black boy called him a 'cracker' since it was not acceptable for Billy to call the boy 'nigger'. It's hard to understand how Billy was offended since no ancestor of his had even been called a 'cracker' as he was savagely whipped by a black man who owned him.

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Last updated: 2012.03.01

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