“Indians” don’t merely exist as a cultural concept in spaghetti westerns
But this is a referenced to those, specifically. You can’t make a reference and at the same time capture the plurality, can you?
even if they did, fantastic racism is still racism.
You can argue that western movies are racist, but using them as reference now that they are established culture is different.
Not only not meant to be used as an authority, but also unlikely to settle any dispute you might have about the word.
Sure, but you will have noticed that I first provided my own view and you provided yours - which I disagree with - so if we want to have a conversation, we need to have some fixed points, otherwise it’s impossible to understand each other if words mean different things to the both of us. I didn’t use the dictionary definition to build my argument, I have simply shown how the definition I use is consistent in some aspects (the intent, for example) with a formal definition.
At the same time, I asked explicitly to provide your own, and instead you spent all the time to quote a fairly irrelevant (in this context) passage, without ultimately showing why I should accept your definition that to me seems completely arbitrary, way too vague and generic.
So let’s just sit in this pit of ambiguity, in which anything can be anything, if you are creative enough.