this is a better dictionary definition, from the oed:
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The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. Hence: prejudice and antagonism towards people of other races, esp. those felt to be a threat to one's cultural or racial integrity or economic well-being; the expression of such prejudice in words or actions. Also occas. in extended use, with reference to people of other nationalities. Cf. RACIALISM n.
1933 Times 12 Sept. 12 They..denounce the quadruple crime which is being prepared in the name of racism and intolerance. 1936 L. DENNIS Coming Amer. Fascism ix. 109 If..it be assumed that one of our values should be a type of racism which excludes certain races from citizenship, then the plan of execution should provide for the annihilation, deportation, or sterilization of the excluded races. If..as I devoutly hope will be the case, the scheme of values will include that of national citizenship in which race will be no qualifying or disqualifying condition, then [etc.]. 1940 R. BENEDICT Race: Science & Politics i. 7 Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed. 1952 Theology 55 283 The idolatry of our time{em}its setting up of nationalism, racism, vulgar materialism. 1960 New Left Rev. Jan.-Feb. 21/2 George Rogers saw fit to kow-tow to the incipient racism of his electorate by including a line about getting rid of ‘undesirable elements’. 1971 Ceylon Daily News (Colombo) 18 Sept. 8/5 Mr. Seneviratne is welcome to his ideal of inter-racial marriages as panacea for Racism. 1974 M. FIDO R. Kipling 50/2 In The Story of Muhammad Din he wrote one of the most economical and bitter attacks on British racism ever penned. 1976 Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer 4 Mar. A2/4 The Vatican radio said,..‘Racism might have different faces but it will always be reprehensible.’ 1986 Marxism Today Sept. 43/4 The term ‘racism’ refers to the belief that there are significant distinctions (whether moral, intellectual or cultural) between races. 2000 A. MORETON-ROBINSON Talkin' up to White Woman (2006) vi. 173 It is racism which is the primary form of oppression Indigenous women experience at the hands of white women and white men. 2003 Chatham (Ontario) Daily News (Nexis) 11 Jan., The French Canadians were treated as bad as the blacks throughout the U.S. at the time... His experiences of racism against French Canadians..was [sic] apparent.
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there are so many crappy dictionaries.
they are not all the same.