You Can't Stump the Trump

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Check out the latest Thaddeus Russell podcast I posted. He makes a compelling argument that implies that racism in the US could be said to be more about culturalism than ethnicity.

I have a hard time defining what is exactly racism. I'm leaning towards the idea that racism is emergent from culturalism. In this context, racism is an effect. Racial discrimination certainly manifests a billion different ways, but I'm unsatisfied with the idea that the core of prejudice is race.

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Check out the latest Thaddeus Russell podcast I posted. He makes a compelling argument that implies that racism in the US could be said to be more about culturalism than ethnicity.

I have a hard time defining what is exactly racism. I'm leaning towards the idea that racism is emergent from culturalism. In this context, racism is an effect. Racial discrimination certainly manifests a billion different ways, but I'm unsatisfied with the idea that the core of prejudice is race.

Interestingly it would seem that racism being at the core of prejudice and cultural differences being the main driver of prejudice need not be mutually exclusive ideas. Maybe this is why it can often be so easy to justify one's own racism-- maybe racism is the seed that the prejudice forest grows from.