Everyone is "racist" to a greater or lesser degree, white, black, brown, yellow, purple... whatever. Same thing with sexism/genderism.
The question is to what degree and how is it expressed.
Accusations of racism are prevalent because, well, racism seems to be pretty prevalent. Same with sexism.
And the illusion of a raceless society or a sexless society is exactly that, an illusion. It runs into the obstacle of human nature and habit.
Democratic use of racism is similar to GoP use of socialism--except the Democrats actually have a sounder basis (because apparently the GoP doesn't actually know what socialism is).
The use of racial slurs against black GoP simply highlights how ingrained particular perceptions of race and how we interact with it are.
Human nature and habit seems to dictate that we are “identitarians”; we seem to have a human need to identify with our group, and “group” gets defined ever finer, especially if there isn’t an obvious handy out-group. Russians and Ukrainians have so much in common culturally and historically, but now they are busy killing each other and calling each other Nazis. The massacre in Rwanda occurred between two groups with differences that are invisible to outsiders. Same with the two factions of Islam. It’s seems insurmountable, but I guess we have to try, if we value civilization.
Everyone is "racist" to a greater or lesser degree, white, black, brown, yellow, purple... whatever. Same thing with sexism/genderism.
The question is to what degree and how is it expressed.
Accusations of racism are prevalent because, well, racism seems to be pretty prevalent. Same with sexism.
And the illusion of a raceless society or a sexless society is exactly that, an illusion. It runs into the obstacle of human nature and habit.
Democratic use of racism is similar to GoP use of socialism--except the Democrats actually have a sounder basis (because apparently the GoP doesn't actually know what socialism is).
The use of racial slurs against black GoP simply highlights how ingrained particular perceptions of race and how we interact with it are.
Human nature and habit seems to dictate that we are “identitarians”; we seem to have a human need to identify with our group, and “group” gets defined ever finer, especially if there isn’t an obvious handy out-group. Russians and Ukrainians have so much in common culturally and historically, but now they are busy killing each other and calling each other Nazis. The massacre in Rwanda occurred between two groups with differences that are invisible to outsiders. Same with the two factions of Islam. It’s seems insurmountable, but I guess we have to try, if we value civilization.