Originally Posted by Almost Canadian (Post 12863678)

I kept hearing this word used by Canadian politicians and hosts of political TV shows over the weekend.

I accept that North Americans struggle to speak the English language properly but what the hell is a person that has been "racialized"?

On the assumption that those that, North Americans, would say have been burglarized are those that have been burgled, what has happened to those that have been racialized?

Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 12863846)

Where I was going was that the aboriginal people in Canada are "raciallised", that is. marked out as members of a separate and lesser ethnic group, from birth. I don't think they would be supportive of the idea that there's a moment of "racialization".

Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 12864068)

Racial discrimination, race and racism (fact sheet) | Ontario Human Rights Commission

'the Commission describes people as “racialized person” or “racialized group” instead of the more outdated and inaccurate terms “racial minority”. “visible minority”, “person of colour” or “non-White”'

So, in Ontario anyway, it's just someone who isn't white. I guess if you are white and subject to some sort of discrimination through belief, you are a religionized person, through disability, a disableized person, through orientation, a LGBTQIAized person and, through pomposity, a governmentalized person.

Originally Posted by bats (Post 12867337)

From Wikipedia
"In sociology, racialization or ethnicization is the process of ascribing ethnic or racial identities to a relationship, social practice, or group that did not identify itself as such.[1] Racialization or ethnicization is often borne out of the interaction of a group with a group that it dominates and ascribes identity for the purpose of continued domination. While it is often borne out of domination, the racialized and ethnicized group often gradually identifies with and even embraces the ascribed identity and thus becomes a self-ascribed race or ethnicity. These processes have been common across the history of imperialism, nationalism, and racial and ethnic hierarchies."

For example, describing Jews as misers, Irish people as stupid, black people as servants. or violent criminals, or Scots as drunks, or Canadians as boring. Some of these perceptions are more dangerous than others.

Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 12867519)

Well, yes, calling people "cradles" is racializing them in the sense meant there but, in Ontario, as noted above, it's only non-white people who are racialized and all non-white people are racialized.