The fundamental question of Part 2 of the racist orcticle will be: If you bite on tropes racists invented for the purpose of racism, and you didn't know they were racist and/or didn't intend them in a racist way, are they suddenly not racist now?
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You know money-laundering? We'll look at hate-laundering: a process where harmful expressions, repeated over and over, estrange themselves from their original associations, until they're ambiguous enough that polite society repeats them, perpetuating hate without realizing it.
@lula this sounds real heckin’ interesting to read! 👌👌 good hook
@lula oh hell yes, the phrase "hate laundering" is some good shit, i love this already
Thus sanitized, they *seem* harmless—so they thrive unquestioned in polite society, like diseases without obvious symptoms, stoking unconscious bias. Point 'em out and *you're* the real racist. It's how we get Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's "racism without racists."