Anti-white racism vs Reverse racism
( charts updated in March 2007)

 
 
 
 
 

When people want to talk about anti-white racism, they use various ways to do so. English speaking people will talk about either "anti-white racism" or "reverse racism". They have actually a third way which is not much used: albophobia, a scientific word about the irrationnal fear toward white people. it is made from the latin root Albus (white) and the greek root Phobos (fear) but it is seldom if ever used. you might take into account a fourth way, when anti-white is spelled antiwhite. A good way to evaluate the use of such expressions is to do keyword searches in the Google Search Engine and see how many pages are found.

All these designations to talk about anti-white racism are very telling of the confusion people feel when they want to talk about this matter. However, expressions such as reverse racism are not only an improper way to talk about anti-white racism but they are actually damaging for people of European Descent.

Why ?

Generally, we only hear about white racism while other kinds of racism - especially anti-white racism - are getting few coverage. This has gradually shaped the idea that only whites are racists or that they are more racist than other racial groups. However, this isn't true. In the U.S. FBI Statistics on hate crime show, for exemple, that Whites are under-represented as hate crime perpetrators compared to their share of the population . Black people are over represented as hate crime perpetrators compared to their share of the population, and overwelmingly so when in comes to inter-racial crimes.

The unique and deliberate focus of anti-racist organisations and the media on White hate crimes, while other displays of hate crime - and interracial crimes - tend to be minimised or denied, has created the perception that there is a norm, a reference, a general rule in racism: racism is a "white thing".

The expression "reverse racism" reflects this. It implies also that there is a "norm", a "direction" in racism and that it is some white people's racial hostility toward other ethnic groups, that Whites are allways the "racists", while people belonging to other ethnic or racial groups are allways the "victims". The expression "reverse racism" not only gives a validation to this idea but by using it, people who may want to denounce anti-white racism are spreading it.

There is no "norm" in racism and Whites don't hold a monopoly on racism.The fact that so many people - most of them Whites - are using expressions like "reverse racism" shows that they have learnt from the anti-racist discourse this racist - this anti-white - prejudice.

Anti-white racism isn't a "reverse racism"; it is a specific and distinct kind of racism.

In the english speaking world wide web, statistics highlights a disturning trend: a Google search shows that 85,74% % of english speaking web pages mentionning the topic of anti-white racism actually use the wrong expression "reverse racism", therefore helping spread the idea that the norm and reference in racism is some white people's racism. Only 14,26 % of english speaking web pages mentionning the topic of anti-white racism are using the proper expression anti-white racism, its misspelled form antiwhite racism or albophobia

Yet, this is an improvment compared to 2 years ago. Back then, 96.72 % of english speaking web pages mentionning the topic of anti-white racism used the wrong expression "reverse racism", therefore helping to spread the idea that the norm and reference in racism is some white people's racism. Only 3.28 % of english speaking web pages mentionning the topic of anti-white racism used the proper expression anti-white racism, its misspelled form antiwhite racism or albophobia. English speakers seem to have become more efficient when they talk about anti-white racism.

For French speaking people, the situation is quite different. keyword search show that appropriate expressions to mention anti-white racism are more frequent, amouting now to 97,48 % for 2,52 % of unappropriate expressions.

That is a remarquable increase : in march 2005 , a keyword search showed that french appropriate expressions to mention anti-white racism amouted to 64.07 % for 35.93 % of unappropriate expressions.

If the trends in labeling anti-white racism are important, this is because anti-white racism, while its victims are numerous and very real, is a seldom talked about topic.

Between 2005 and 2007, The number of pages taking properly about anti-white racism has increased by a factor of 34, while the number of pages using the "reverse racism" expression has increased only by a factor of 6. During the same period, The number of pages about racism has inceased by a factor of 5 and those about anti-semitism by a factor of 6.

However, because there are still few pages about anti-white racism. Out a total number of web pages mentionning either "racism", "anti-semitism" or anti-white racism , the web pages mentionning anti-white racism account is a mere 0.51 % of the total number, a slight increase from 0.36 % in 2005. But unfortunatly for english speakers, the majority of these pages -roughly 85 % -currently reinforce a racial prejudice against whites while they seek to denounce it.

For the French language, between 2005 and 2007, The number of pages taking properly about anti-white racism has increased by a factor of 51, while the number of pages using the "reverse racism" expressions has increased only by a factor of 2. During the same period, The number of pages about racism has increased by a factor of 10 and those about anti-semitism by a factor of 5.

Out a total number of web pages mentionning either "racism", "anti-semitism" or anti-white racism , the web pages mentionning anti-white racism account for 0.81 % of the total number, an increase from 0.2 % in 2005. 97 % of these pages now use the appropriate expression.

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The conclusion is that there is good to be said for both english speaking people and for french speaking people : both are improving the way they talk about anti-white racism and they talk more about it than they use to. Proportionally to the amount available of pages about racism on the internet, French speaking people, however, now tend to talk more about anti-white racism than english speaking people and they do so more efficiently, in a way that identify them as a specific group and does not relay racial prejudices toward Whites.

With few pages mentionning the topic of anti-white racism, can those who are concerned about it afford to use an improper expression that reinforce racial prejudices? There is certainly a need to raise awareness about this problem and it certainly belongs to every one. It is important to use the proper expressions like"anti-white racism" or "anti-white discrimination" "anti-white slurs" "anti-white attitude" because they do not convey a racial prejudice toward Whites. It actually helps to identify a specific kind of racism. Also, it clearly identifies Whites as an ethnic or racial group with a distinct identity and sense of purpose.

A good beginning to combat the spread of anti-white stereotypes by the well meaning people who actually want to denounce this problem is to writte to journalists, columnists or webmasters who are using the "reverse racism" expression. It is to post a reply on internet forums whenever this expression is used. As the french exemple shows, it is possible to change the way we talk about anti-white racism. That's an important first step.

But it's also important for each and everyone to raise awareness about anti-white racism. it might be, for a webmaster, to devote a webpage of his website as an educationnal effort about this matter or even better, to create a specific page about anti-white racism to increase informations on this matter available on the internet.

The statistics mentionned above show there is much catching up to do, but also that some catching up can be done !

A good start to fight anti-white racism is, obviously, to change the way we talk about it !


www.google.com
keyword search results -
03/25/2005
03/26/2007
Increase as multiples
French Keywords      
"racisme" 1 090 000 10 600 000
x 10
"antisémitisme" 431 000 1 900 000
x 4
"anti-sémitisme" 25 100 135 000
x 5
"racisme anti-blanc" 1 540 82 900
x 54
"racisme antiblanc" 409 11 200
x 27
"racisme à l'envers" 462 674
x 1
"racisme à rebours" 436 907
x 2
"racisme inversé" 204 993
x 5
"albophobie" 16 5 650
x 353
English Keywords      
"racism" 6 570 000 34 000 000 x 5
"anti-semitism" 1 290 000 1 450 000 x 1
"antisemitism" 397 000 2 210 000 x 6
"reverse racism" 28 800 165 000 x 6
"anti-white racism" 802 27 000 x 34
"antiwhite racism" 164 298 x 2
"albophobia" 10 144 x 14

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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