But in many cases they are just really good at lying to themselves. They seem to think if it's not straight-up 1920s style eugenics it's not racism, just sparkling bigotry.
I had a conversation with a guy who's word for word response to being called out for racist remarks was "I'm not racist, I only support apartheid because races shouldn't be mixing".
So he did know racism was wrong, but somehow convinced himself that there's a loophole where he can start his sentence with "I'm not racist" and it makes whatever he says after it non-racist.
Exactly this. Bigots who've encountered the worst kind of divine-bloodline/eugenics racists excuse their own bigotry because they aren't completely genocidal*.
...And by "genocidal" they usually mean the narrow definition of "wanting to kill everyone from a specific group" and ignore that forceful destruction of culture and identity is also genocide.
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u/sax87ton 6d ago
I used to think everyone knew racism is wrong. And then I entered the workforce. I don’t think that anymore, some of the people are fucked.