Just as a note, since this should be obvious, but the SJW thread in Flame and Burn is not to be taken as a representative sample of every social justice advocate on tumblr.
Just like FSTDT's main page is not meant to be taken as a representative sample of everyone who is religious ever.
Exactly. It's really no different than the "Things people say on Facebook", "Certain things about fandoms that annoy you", etc. threads. We're mocking the worst elements of the Tumblr SJ community, not every single SJ blogger on Tumblr, much less the planet.
Right.
My point is, don't confuse the insane jack-off use of the talk of institutional racism vs. the proper use of it.
The people who use it as a defense for being prejudiced against white people is bad. This doesn't really apply to the people who are talking about.
As for why certain circles would simply shorten institutional racism to just racism, this actually makes good sense to me.
For one thing, the common lingo of racism is simply just talking about prejudice based on skin color. The definition of the common use of racism is basically redundant when there are other words that can express the same sentiment. (Racist towards black people and prejudiced towards black people mean the same thing). There's also bigoted.
Therefore, since common use basically means 'prejudiced', then 'institutional racism' can simply be shortened to 'racism' for better efficient discussion.
The problem is when the idiots try to force this contextual use of the word into contexts where it doesn't belong. These people are the ones that hijack "you can't be (institutionally) racist against (dominant skin color)" into being "You can't be prejudiced against (dominant skin color)" and think that this gives them free reign to act like bigoted fuckwits.