"Racism is an insidious cultural disease. It is so insidious that it doesn’t care if you are a white person who likes black people; it’s still going to find a way to infect how you deal with people who don’t look like you. Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is another. And so on."
-– Scott Woods, author and poet.
And so on… So basically what this quote says is that everything is insidious racism somehow.
Yay. So from this premise, everybody is racist all the time, even unconsciously. Fantastic.
To those of us who actually have to function as grown-ups in society, the dictionary definition of Racism is: [...]
"Of course everything is racist. It’s ‘current year’, after all. You’re a racist. I’m a racist. Frogs are racist. Echidnas are racist. Monkeys are racist. Pick a thing and show a picture of it to the internet, and someone with a blog will call it racist, followed by CNN reporting that the thing is now being blamed for inspiring hate crimes.
This is outrage culture. Nobody can just chill and casually disapprove of something anymore while keeping their mouth shut and avoiding said thing. Everything has to turn into a crusade. And if you don’t publically [sic] speak out against this thing, you are part of the problem and your mass public shaming via social/traditional media outlets is completely justified."
Racism is the universal truth. And the answer to everything.
If buildings in black communities receive warning signs that they aren't safe, that's racist. If signs aren't posted and an earthquake takes place, that too is racist. The first and final principle is that absolutely everything is racist. With no exceptions.
