I say we keep the term "racism" to mean that the assignment of a characteristic as well as the implication of the characteristic is meant to be derogatory, or at least an impugnment.    From Wordnik.com.  ["We, in former times, constantly made jokes about different races."] Reference

Heylin's elaborate impugnment of its accuracy appears to have had great weight, as with Fuller's contemporaries, so with the generation which immediately followed, and onward almost to our own time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference

In 1905 there is already mention of "impugnment of the Academy in Italian newspapers from somewhat obscure sources" as a result of the award of the previous year's prize to Frédéric Mistral and José Echegaray and not to Giosuè Carducci.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Literature: Nominations and Reports 1901–1950] Reference

"O-oh!" cried Mrs. Brook, with a drawn-out extravagance of comment that amounted to an impugnment of her taste even by herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Awkward Age] Reference

Put out of humour perhaps by this gross impugnment of her sincerity, the head of the family kept her room on pretexts during a greater part of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame De Mauves] Reference

As her vivacity never lessens our impression of her sensibility, so she wears her masculine attire without the slightest impugnment of her delicacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical] Reference

It seems a significant development therefore that McCain has abandoned this pledge in his constant impugnment of Barack Obama's commitment to the troops and to victory in Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to No victory in war of terror till Pak"s ISI reined in: Karzai aide Home] Reference

American citizens in the very crisis of the Presidential election then near at hand, and also in his subsequent public declarations to justify his action, superadding impugnment of the Executive and Senate of the United.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address] Reference

It always made a Madigan furious to hear a foreign tongue; for, apart from the affectation of strange pronunciations, the deliberate mouthing of words (and you couldn't make Sissy Madigan believe that Mrs. Ramrod understood half of what she was reading in that guttural, heavy tongue), there was the impugnment of other people's lack of linguistic accomplishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madigans] Reference

No impugnment of integrity intended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Which, if any, groups favored Hillary Clinton in South Carolina?] Reference

DERIVATIVES impugnable adjective impugnment noun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference