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There's (deep )buried truth under racist desires for 'purity'. That is, pure 'whiteness' immune of even the slightest impurity is necessary to remove the final vestiges of negative emotion. You can't get rid of light-light grey without calibrating to pure white.

When you relax the standard of whiteness/purity you can't tell the truth of your annoyance without seeming rude. So the slight accent that caused a slight miscommunication that you could have vented off in a socially acceptable way now grinds at you constantly.

So the call to desensitize yourself is rightly opposed when sensitivity makes its case that it is important. And while its true that desensitization makes your more tolerant to others. It's also the pitch of a drug dealer who just wants to show you a good time.

Sensitivity can only be reached in a state of trust and acceptance. Those who join racist groups often do so because they have not achieved the strength to be vulnerable. They never grew up. But... only because we designed a system where people only had dead-end jobs.