re: #315 HappyWarrior

Another thing that irritates me so much about this discussion is how racism is disingenuously framed as a binary issue - you either are or aren’t. And that’s ridiculous - racism is a continuum on which the same person can move in different directions dependent on a whole host of factors.

- Someone can have no trouble working or casually socializing with minorities, but be highly uncomfortable with the thought of dating/marrying one.

- Conversely, some can have no trouble with sexual relationships, yet not like the thought of socializing/working with or other contexts (like that billionaire basketball team owner who told his *biracial* mistress that he didn’t want black people in the audience for his games o_O)

- And then you have the infamous “one of the good ones” types, who are nice to minorities who behave in a manner they consider acceptable as opposed to the negative stereotypes they hold. And I daresay this might help explain a lot of the Obama-Trump voters, who were fine with Obama initially due to a) genuine bush-induced economic anxiety b) the fact he didn’t act like an “angry black man.” But as soon as Obama did something they considered too “blackity blackity black” (e.g. comments on police brutality), they abandoned him.