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# umm
it is a real word.
I spent a whole lesson in politics learning about racialism!
dictionary.reference.com/search?q=racialist
(I helped save b3ta! Lora, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 20:18, archived)
# really?
ah, that's not the context it gets used in usually... didn't know it had a real meaning tho', I sit corrected
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 20:20, archived)
# that's ok
it's nice to be right, yay!
(I helped save b3ta! Lora, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 20:21, archived)
# aha!
*edits all the posts where he agrees it isn't a real word*

not really
(I helped save b3ta! fassit is old, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 20:20, archived)
# i think it's not used though. is that what this means?
racism [Show phonetics]
noun [U] (UK OLD-FASHIONED racialism) DISAPPROVING
the belief that people's qualities are influenced by their race and that the members of other races are not as good as the members of your own, or the resulting unfair treatment of members of other races:
(I helped save b3ta! dipdapdop, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 20:22, archived)
# it's definitely still used
in political terms.
I think it probably has been phased out of popular usage though
(I helped save b3ta! Lora, Sun 2 Nov 2003, 20:24, archived)