Racialism is the belief that the human species is naturally divided into races, that are ostensibly distinct biological categories. Most dictionaries define the term racialism as synonymous with racism.[1]
I don't believe I've ever heard the term before myself, so I looked it up. I thought I knew what racism was, but I looked that up too because the distinction between racism and racialism was not clear to me. I am having trouble copying and pasting the definition of "racism" but, if you click on the highlighted word in the above text, it will take you to it.
As near as I can tell, the difference between racialism and racism is that racialism recognizes the existence of different races, while racism also involves the belief that one race is superior to another race. By using both terms in the same sentence, Andrew C. McCarthy seems to be saying that both beliefs "should be increasingly irrelevant in a pluralistic society". Sounds good to me, now all we've got to do is convince everybody else of all races. Until we do, I'm staying in Category III.
Meanwhile, I've got an idea about what to do with all those asylum seekers who are waiting for their hearings to come up. Instead of keeping them in detention camps, which can't be built fast enough, organize them along the lines of the old Civilian Conservation Corps. Their first project can be to build their own camps or barracks, then send them out to do stuff like planting trees and establishing firebreaks in the mountains. I'm not talking about chain gang labor, I'm talking about a reasonable amount of productive work for which they will be paid a fair wage, just like the old CCC. Those who are not suitable for field work can be employed as cooks and other support personnel. The CCC was probably the least controversial of the New Deal projects, I've never heard anybody say anything negative about it. Makes me wonder why it was ever discontinued. I'll have to look that up one of these days.
Meanwhile, I've got an idea about what to do with all those asylum seekers who are waiting for their hearings to come up. Instead of keeping them in detention camps, which can't be built fast enough, organize them along the lines of the old Civilian Conservation Corps. Their first project can be to build their own camps or barracks, then send them out to do stuff like planting trees and establishing firebreaks in the mountains. I'm not talking about chain gang labor, I'm talking about a reasonable amount of productive work for which they will be paid a fair wage, just like the old CCC. Those who are not suitable for field work can be employed as cooks and other support personnel. The CCC was probably the least controversial of the New Deal projects, I've never heard anybody say anything negative about it. Makes me wonder why it was ever discontinued. I'll have to look that up one of these days.
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