Urwrongx1000
I think that I can probably agree with this. We don’t like our imperfections so we avoid looking at them honestly. We like to see ourselves as above all of that. I can sometimes see it in myself. That is why I wrote the below:
We all have our biases. I am quite aware of mine. Anyone, for the moment, without being fully conscious of who they are and what their feelings and thoughts are, might begin to succumb to some form of racism in the moment because of some dynamic. I suppose that might be part of the instinct to survive ~ maybe. But generally, the non-racist judges the INDIVIDUAL based on what he or she has done, not based on the color of their skin.
On some level, on a conscious level, many may realize that black skin or dark skin or any color skin really has nothing to do with how a person ought to be treated or perceived. They may realize that we are, in a sense, all created equal, even though on other levels obviously, we have different talents, gifts, et cetera, which make some of us more superior and others more inferior insofar as those talents and gifts are concerned. Perhaps we ought not to even think in terms of superior and inferior. We were all born with different talents and tools.
It could be about both IF the party knows he/she is racist and tries to hide behind virtue.
Perhaps if the duplicity is unconscious, then can it really be duplicity? Just a question.
This can be true. Wanting/needing to appear virtuous might be the intention.
Did you mean to say “being racist” or “not being racist”?
I’ve always had a question of whether or not that can actually be seen as racist? Perhaps it really depends on one’s motives and intentions for preferring one’s own kind? If that made sense. Perhaps it’s just part of human evolution and force of habit? Perhaps it’s peer pressure or fear of being judged or just simply unconscious human indoctrination. But is it actually racist? I think that one would have to know the individual and see where they are coming from to answer that.
Honestly, I hope I would never have to answer that question. Anyway, what does that have to do with racism?
How about the human race? What’s the crime?
But they don’t. But it’s a good thing to ponder them ~ to see how the virus of racism influences and touches us in ways we may not even be aware of.