I'm curious whether people tend to think they are special in a way that would have protected them against the racist zeitgeist that prevailed back then. (Thought experiment doesn't quite work, I realize.)
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If you had been been born white, and raised in the Jim Crow South, would you likely have been racist, and if so would you have been culpable for your racism? (Assume you have your current personality dispositions, but not necessarily your current beliefs and values.)
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The point about culpability is as follows. If you think you're not racist now (as far as that is possible), but you would have been racist back then, given that the entire difference is the culture into which you were born, and that's beyond your control, how are you culpable?
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I was born in Texas just as the civil rights laws started to dismantle Jim Crow. There was still racism to spare in its aftermath. As a child, you might not have been culpable. As an adult, plenty of white southerners were able to look around and say this is wrong.
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Not culpable because determinism.
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