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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8497578"><p>I think we are probably getting way off topic here. I can't say I agree with this mindset. I think racism is terrible. But I also think there is a lot of oversimplification about it. I think exaggerating it, making it the pervasive sin of our entire culture, that is misguided. It isn't because I find it uncomfortable to confront these things. It is because I don't think it is accurate, and as I said, simplistic. And I don't think it helps the people its intended to help (I think it causes more harm than good). I am in an interracial marriage. I do see real racism (my wide certainly encounters it). I also experience intolerance from people over it (sometimes from misguided people on 'my own side' of the political aisle even). But this mindset actually makes it harder to call out genuine forms of racism when they arise IMO. I dislike this point of view for the same reason I dislike racialist thinking: it locks people into bubbles, and reduce them to things like their racial or ethnic identity.</p></blockquote><p></p>