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It’s really pretty simple.No its the original defintion. The widely used definition. And the correct definition. The only one that potentially lead to a society that ends discrimination and enables all races to have equal opportunities, live peacefully together and have equal and high standard of living (although this goal also relies on ending generational transfer of wealth and properly implementing anti racist policies by all levels of government - neither of which have been achieved).
Affirmative action policies are not racist and quite important if they aim to overcome race based misinformation and bias against races (both deliberate and subconcious).
Affirmative action policies become racist if they are soley about representation and pushing advantages to one race over another based on historical disadvantage (which is simply a form of race based revenge). Those who push the second type of affirmative actiom are racist people by the actual definition. They are creating a society in my view that will lead to further race based discrimination in the future even if they dont realise it as they are normalising race based discrimination enabling all sides to justify implementing more of it in the future.
Sam Kerr can’t be racist for drunkenly abusing a London bobby because he’s a white male authority figure and she’s a female with an Indian grandmother.
Hope that clears it up. /s