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@moonman @gameragodzilla
That's how it always goes. We never want to acknowledge that racism isn't itself confined to a certain label. For instance, how much Obama's been banging on about how that shooter didn't represent blacks.
Racism isn't a black thing, it's not an asian thing, it's not a white thing, it's a racist asshole thing.
At the same time we really need to acknowledge and respect that certain attitudes and cultures encourage othering people and thus racism. Having a culture so deeply ingrained on conflict with the outgroup as American culture of the last ... five years, I say ... has been, is not healthy, and racism is just a symptom. They need to address the root cause, but politicians, and other influential organizations don't want to treat the cause, just the symptoms as neccesary, because they can use it to their own means to galvanize people to their causes.