The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

I believe that asymmetrical power structures are antecedent to racism rather than the other way around: that black people, like people of many other demographics, run afoul of fairly common innate programming that would exist and find outlet even if you somehow "abolished" racism

Yes, there's no such thing as universal human nature. No, that doesn't mean there's no such thing as human nature. Now, "human nature" has been used by default as a way to center white people and their interests, and this is unreasonable.

A lot of the subtler forms of racism essentially center white people and then frame differences from white normality as deficiencies. But this is fundamentally due to the tendency to subsume heterogeneity into hierarchy, which is a more universal tendency than racial animus.

One of the places where hierarchical impulses most firmly dovetail with racism is in terms of the intersection between class, race, and IQ. IQ is something that lends itself to hierarchical thinking innately: it's a number that is universally descriptive that can change in size.

But while IQ is valid, to say that class is valid because of IQ differences between races requires first implicitly reifying class into a real thing. It also requires circularly saying that human values and preferences are less important when they belong to people with lower IQ.