As a general rule, I assume that racism is probably not a motivation for most things. Not that it *can't* be, only that it's culturally inflated to the point where I automatically adjust downwards. There's *lots* of other often-worse motivations for things that aren't racism.
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And to reiterate - this doesn't mean I don't think racism exists. I think it absolutely does, where it does it's horribly damaging to the people who suffer from it, and we shouldn't dismiss racism as "oh it's just classism or something" in cases where this isn't true.
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My point is more- when I was religious, we believed that Christians were persecuted, and so any info that involved Christians having a bad time was reinterpreted as persecution. Now, some Christians *are* persecuted, and this is awful! But *also*, I shoulda been more skeptical.
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And to claim authority of identity, I am a woman and think a lot of the claims of sexism against women are overblown and can be attributed to other things, and I automatically downgrade the chance something is sexist when I hear about it. But this doesn't mean sexism isn't real!
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I just think it's a very general human feature - when a powerful narrative hits us (like one involving underdogs), it's typically powerful *because* it has truth, and then once it grows teeth it becomes a bigger caricature that's powerful *regardless* of the truth.
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And it can be extremely hard to figure out how to knock down the false caricature without also knocking down the important truths inside of it. Lots of people get reactive and aren't interested in preserving any of it. It's a really hard, triggering, and messy process.
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All true.....and the most common bias.....familiarity. Most people are creatures of habit.
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Are you making a list of “attributes that are presumed based on racial phenotype”?
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... *Fear of the unknown.
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Interesting point, although I think the lines between cultural bias, classism, and racism are blurry
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