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You are also wrong, "races" do not exist. Racism is the belief that "race" is a thing, and deducing opinions from that. Do not use racist terminology, please.
As you said racism is the belief that races exist AND that they should be hierarchized. It is true that the genetic diversity is too big in the race groups for it to be biological races, so the word usually is a synonym for way too big ethnic groups.
Thus using "race" is biologically ambiguous and "ethnic groups" should be preferred, however it is still very well socially defined. Using "race" in a social context makes sense and is far from being racist.
Saying "black people are discriminated" is a talk about race not ethnic group. "Black people" is not an ethnic group, it has hundred of ethnic groups and some ethnic groups are mixed race.
"Ethnic group" is an anthropological category, not a biological one. The correct biological term is "subspecies", which Wikipedia defines as "populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed."
Given the history of its usage in that context, I have to vehemently disagree. Plus it is so ill defined that it is a useless term anyway. From Wikipedia again: "[...] various definitions exist. Sometimes it is used to denote a level below that of subspecies, while at other times it is used as a synonym for subspecies."
Using it invokes all the Social Darwinism and whatnot that the Nazis and others abused it for. So where is the sense in using it exactly?
An actually good answer.
But what I disagree with is that the word race being used by racists is justified to call random people racists. I do not use it personally anyway
Oh yeah, not saying that anybody using the word is a racist. Just ignorant, you shouldn't use it if you are aware of its historical context.