[ID: a screenshot of a comic speech bubble. The black text in it reads "No matter how open-minded, socially conscious, anti-racist I think I am, I still have old learned hidden biases that I need to examine. It is my responsibility to check myself daily for my stereotypes, prejudices and, ultimately, discrimination." /ID end]
One of the worst things to happen to antiracism is the (figurative) PR campaign that convinced us (esp US Americans) that a racist is the worst thing you can possibly be--this makes contronting and unlearning your racism near impossible because we have conflated racism (a systemic, structural problem) with ontological truth (racism as some essential component of our being).
this also applies to marginalized communities due to intersectionality tying to lateral violence as well.






















