elizabyte's dictionary said: "racism n. 1. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others. 2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race. --racist adj. & n." That is actually a good definition of racialism. Racism is properly the belief in races. There has been a certain amount of meaning drift in recent years, but that means that one is left without a word for racism in its original sense, which is a theory increasingly under attack from anthropologists. I oppose racism AND racialism, and without the distinction between the two words I can't make my meaning clear. I'm certainly not accusing Daz of being racialist, far from it.