[kosta50]

The British have invented a new phrase a few years back that applies to the Comedy Club in the Hague, institutional racism.

Maybe, but Mad Albright and Richard Holbrooke have made it an official State Department Policy, to wit Mad Albright saying she is awful to the Serbs "because they are awful people," and Holbrooke on Larry King Live calling Serbs "murderous a$$holes." If it is coming from the highest echalons of our State Department - I would say it's official policy, and is therefore institutionalized. Any such sweeping generalizations about any national or ethnic group constitutes racism. So, institutionalized racism indeed.

[Voronin]

The phrase also has a much more subtle meaning, i.e. the institution has no rules that deliberately constitute what could be called racism, but it still discriminates because of the manner that it operates and how it was set up. The other interpretation is of a well established institution that still uses mechanisms from the past that have the effect of actual discrimination, whether intentional or not. The Stephen Lawrence Trial - ...The inquiry report says racism includes "attitudes and behaviour that amount to discrimination through unwitting prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness and racist stereotyping." An organisation like the police can be racist if it doesn't give a proper service to people for any of these reasons. The inquiry calls this 'institutional racism.' It said the police service in the Stephen Lawrence case showed institutional racism." - became a cause celebre

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