Racism in all its guizes of course one of the ways we cope with the complexity of modern life.
i mean it.
The world is all together too complex. The means by which we understand that complexity to tricky (hey it involves number for Godsake!)
It is so much easier to have a nice little series of stories about the fates of different ethnic groups in modernity. Nice little innocent stories (they usually start innocent enough), that provide vignettes was to how we all feel (we can all be Back or all Jewish at times).
we can even run an entire election based on those stories (Clinton and Obama less titans in themselves, more a titan of choice about which dream should be made real, and which lost).
all nice innocent stuff.
the problem always with racisim is not its present (in someways that is inevitable). is rather the fact that heir is not rational line to be drawn between these innocent stories and the blind hatred we all know so well.
For when one chortles or feels proud or perplexed or whatever, when faced with another racial story, do remember to also watch the madness that is already growing in ones mind.
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