[nukemaster]

>Racism is a form or subset of bigotry.

If you look closely you'll notice that this isn't how extremists (on both sides) use the word. Racism to them means something closer to oppression (similar to the Marxist idea of class oppression.) The idea itself, the way it's used by extremists, is bigoted.

I wish the moderates arguing in good faith against bigotry would stop using it. It has an ugly genocidal history going back to the bolshevik revolution and the Holodomor that followed.

[tomrod]

I don't understand your comment. What is the context for "using it" in your second paragraph? Also, could you elaborate on how you see racism as being closer to oppression?