[ SECRET POST #1959 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1959 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

...Typically? I think it's considered racism [or sexism in the case of the second example], yes. I can't speak for every case, and I can't speak for anyone else's viewpoints but...from what I've seen, and what I've heard from people I've talked to, there isn't a difference between the two.

For example, a woman clutching her purse closer to her because a *black* man walks by? True, she could be phobic of black people...but that's neither okay, and that doesn't magically make it, or her, not racist.

[(Anonymous)]

What if she realizes it's wrong on a moral level and is trying to stop herself from doing it? What if the woman clutched her purse closer to her, realized what she's doing, then told herself she's being silly and relaxed and apologized to the black man while explaining her phobia? You can't help phobias, that's what makes them phobias.

[(Anonymous)]

That wouldn't make it less racist. She's still making a judgement about someone based on their race. If she isn't even trying to get over her phobia [and there *are* ways to for a person to find help with that], then I'd question how genuine her apology really was.

[citrinesunset.livejournal.com]

Her belief is still racist, even though she realizes it's wrong. She's not a bad person for having a phobia she can't control, but that doesn't make the beliefs good. Also, if her phobia is influenced by the idea that black men are more likely to be dangerous, then society is partly to blame for that. Depending on its root, it's possible her phobia may not have manifested in this way if she hadn't been exposed to the idea in the first place.