Good points for the most part, LH, but something needs to be done. People who, deep down in their hearts, don't consider themselves to be racists, and who don't want to think of themselves as racists, are nevertheless practing the exact same thing as racism only toward a group they don't consider a "race". They don't see the practice itself as being bad, they only see being put in the category called "racist" as being bad.

Even when this kind of prejudice and discrimination is being practiced against a group people don't consider to be a separate "race", it is still nevertheless the same thing as racism, and I am finding that the only way to get people to understand this is to give it the same name.

There was a time when the word "prejudice" had the same effect, but that seems to no longer be the case. So I will continue to use the word "racism" to apply to all kinds of prejudice and discrimination toward groups of people, and I will continue to defend this practice if I am challenged about it, as I have done in this thread.