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Why are you avoiding them? Are you avoiding specific people based on their beliefs and actions? Or are you saying that there are degrees of racism and you have found that white people in certain areas are more racist? Is your avoidance based on their race or your judgment of who they are based on where they live or how they look?
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I'm guessing their probable beliefs and actions in part based on their race. They're white, and facets of their physical appearance and their facial expressions indicate potential for aggressive and impulsive behavior. You learn to spot them when traveling through rural locales (I drive a lot).
I think assortative mating is creating a lot of white people in dire circumstances who look a lot alike. It's skin tone, posture, eyes, and a mixture of features that cause the reptile brain in my head to say,
High chance of aggression, possible drug addict. Avoid. I'm not the only one who's registered this phenomenon going on in his head.
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Most people who are educated in race issues distinguish between racism and race prejudice. Racism is widely considered to be something that carries with it the power of racist society and its racist institutions. Race prejudice is more likely what you're describing.
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That's a distinction I think fixes the confusion. This was a lot of my problem with Adder's definition. When you add the power component to Racism, I think you necessarily grab its most pernicious element. Race prejudice is almost impossible to eradicate as people will always default to stereotypes on some level (Kahnemann can speak to that). Racism as a system in which a race is targeted and marginalized is curable.
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