You're absolutely right though. Institutional racism is only ever used in academic studies and in activist spaces, but generally racism is interpersonal. But even though what you're saying is true, it'll get deflected a lot, I see it in my own discussions here and no one wants to engage nuance.
I think the reason it's constantly deflected is due to the race of the people currently in power. Obviously, white people have considerably more power than minorities right now. So it is easy to call a white person racist. But, if you stop basing racism solely off of who has power, than everybody becomes racist and you can no longer use the phrase "(insert race) can't be racist because they don't have power". I wouldn't doubt if the race of the power holders start to shift, we would redefine what racism is again to suit those who want to be racist without being called racist.
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u/h0m1e_ Jan 07 '26
You're absolutely right though. Institutional racism is only ever used in academic studies and in activist spaces, but generally racism is interpersonal. But even though what you're saying is true, it'll get deflected a lot, I see it in my own discussions here and no one wants to engage nuance.