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It's not actually an intelligent question


The more useful & honest question is - 'what kind of racist am I' ?

To what extent do I :

Believe different races have different average IQs (probably true, but has no relevance to social policy, since variation within the population swamps the average anyway). Racist, somewhat, but not in any serious way objectionable imo.

Believe that blacks should 'get over' 500 years or so of inter-generational chattel slavery (being 'anti-woke'). This is one of the ignorant sort of takes.

Believe that all blacks (or pick your despised minority or religion are ethnic group) are dumb, or enough of them are dumb that they 'deserve' to be scorned by the general public. If necessary to remain socially viable, is 'slyly' - i.e. the MAGA scene. (i.e. 'joking' about Puerto Rico being a 'garbage island')

Make up some of your own ! The point being, most/all of us have at least SOME slightly inconvenient/unfair/harsh viewpoints - the cutting edge about this is how they effect our evaluations on an individual or group basis, or how it filters our response tendencies to events as they occur (i.e. is kneeling on the neck of a perp in some way acceptable ? Is it beyond the pale for folks to organize to protest such practices ? What is our basic attitude to expressions of race-based grievance by minorities - are they given a fair hearing or dismissed/scorned out of hand)

Just a few of my thoughts. I don't pretend at all to be perfect. My daughter, a few years back, was dating a young black man, and I did have a hard time with it. I'm not claiming any sort of congenital virtue, but I DO examine my attitudes, not always liking what I find inside, and generally trying to do the right thing, keep my evaluations fair - which tends to put me miles away from the Trump crowd.

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