I'm kind of racist. Not intellectually. I'm as anti-racist as anybody else in that regard. I've just been raised around a bunch of racist douchebags and without realizing it, a lot of their prejudices got under my radar and creeped into my brain. My family isn't like, Klan racist or anything, they're more like working-class Irish racist. They don't hate minorities, they just have really ignorant prejudices and aren't self-aware of them, which is odd since they're for the most part pretty educated, worldly people.
Sometimes when I'm watching the news and I see a back guy who's been arrested for whatever, I can't help but have a reflexive thought like "It figures..." Instantly I realize this, and try to squash it, but I have no real control of it in the moment. It's pretty much impossible to get rid of.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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