Needing power to have irrational hatred of others? Really?

You don't need to have more or less power than any one person or group of people to hate them for irrational reasons or to be bigoted towards them.

Irrational hatred of others is based on what one thinks and believes, not what level of power someone has attained. Even poor people, even people with little power, can have irrational hatred and have had it.

So when I see things like "non-whites can't be racist because they don't have power" I know that someone is messing around with the definitions of these terms to achieve something other than what is just.

You don't need power to be bigoted.

To have hatred in your heart requires nothing but you. Just you. Only you. Power & influence not necessary.