Yesterday the WSJ pointed out an organization called Jugglers Against Oppression. Specifically, the group opposes any form of "homophobia, racism, sexism, ableism, classism, ageism, gender oppression, biphobia and other forms of discrimination and oppression." Interestingly, this group's own narrow definitions of these terms itself are discriminatory.

The group defines sexism as "beliefs and practices that privilege men and subordinate women." Racism is defined word-for-word as "the systematic subordination of members of targeted racial groups who have relatively little social power... ...by the members of the agent racial group who have relatively more social power (white)."

As if you aren't smart enough to get their meaning, they emphasize it by adding "white" in parenthesis. Why do the Jugglers bother beating around the bush and just state the real definition of racism. Merriam-Webster's dictionary clearly states that racism is "the white man trying to keep a brother down," and everyone already knows that only whites can be racist, and only men can be sexist.

Ironically, they denounce "privilege" and define it as resources that are "only readily available to some people because of their social group membership," yet white men are the only ones privileged enough to apply to their definitions.