Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "The alarming fact that nobody seems to know what the word ‘racist’ actually means" video.

Being that the word didn't appear until 1919, according to Webster's, some think it to have been French in origin. If so, what was France's history during that time, especially around Paris? The Oxford Dictionary stated that it may have been a derived from the word, racialism.
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