"No Racialism in Sport"

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fizzelina

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Watching the Reeling in the Years 1970 episode yesterday evening I had to laugh at the Anti-Apartheid march in Dublin shown, with lots of the banners saying "No Racialism in Sport". Was the word Racism not invented?? Or did the Irish just not know it?!
 
Watching that I just felt embarrassment to see all the people inside watching the match.

Well done those protesters.
 
fizzelina said:
Watching the Reeling in the Years 1970 episode yesterday evening I had to laugh at the Anti-Apartheid march in Dublin shown, with lots of the banners saying "No Racialism in Sport". Was the word Racism not invented?? Or did the Irish just not know it?!
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Nothing wrong with it. As far as I know, they are now accepted as inter-changable words. Racialism is just an older word that seems to have been shortened in recent years to racism.

Just checked the Oxford English Dictionary there and they are inter-changable.
 
I was just looking it up there. Racialism originally meant belief in the superiority of a particular race, which is essentially what racism is today.Currently racialism means a belief in the existence and significance of racial categories, but not necessarily that any absolute hierachy between the races. So they may have been using it for it's original meaning? Interesting link that I was reading on it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racialism
 
Either way, I think racialism is largely considered to be old-fashioned and just sounds wrong in modern usage - wasn't Jade Goody ridiculed for using the term in defense of her comments against that Indian girl? "I am not a racialist!"
 
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