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4 May 2024

9:00 AM

4 May 2024

9:00 AM

The expression ‘non-racist’ is still missing from most of the world’s major dictionaries (Oxford, Merriam-Webster, Collins, Macquarie) but perhaps this is a term we need to embrace and use more often. Its alternative ‘anti-racism’ has now become a weapon of the Critical Race Theory mob and embraces such notions as ‘white privilege’. The world of woke now uses ‘anti-racist’ to mean ‘anti-white’ – so we need another term. And the best on offer is ‘non-racist’. The only major dictionary I could find that lists this as a head word is the Cambridge with the following definition: ‘not influenced by a person’s race’. Being ‘non-racist’ means treating a person’s race as the least important thing about them. Instead, we look at people in terms of our common humanity and their individuality – what Martin Luther King called ‘the content of their character’ as opposed to ‘the colour of their skin’. So, no special advantage or disadvantage for anyone based only on their race – that’s the notion of ‘non-racist.’ The term has been criticised as vague, and carrying different meanings. But that’s okay – language is always open to dispute and discussion. But we need some way to say, ‘race does not matter’ or ‘race is the least important thing about any human being’. And it seems to me that ‘non-racist’ captures that. What do you think?

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