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Newsflash: Everyone is "racist". Psychologists and anthropologists have discovered that every human society they have ever studied shows "in-group preference" - that is, we are wired to reflexively prefer, believe and trust other humans who look more like us, than those who look less like us. All tribal groups studied by anthropologists think of themselves as being "human" and other groups as being "not human", which ideologically justifies making war on them, stealing land, women and goods from them, and enslaving them (and yes, slavery has been practised by humans all over the world, in all societies; and as abhorrent as the enslavement of Africans by Europeans was, it is noteworthy that Christian Europeans developed moral and legal arguments to outlaw the barbaric practice of slavery).

There is no need to apologise for being fundamentally human, especially when you have personally worked so hard to examine your reflexive thoughts and actions and correct them with a consciously chosen moral code which acknowledges the fundamental equality of all human beings. Living on your knees doesn't empower others to live on their feet.

I thoroughly encourage you to read 'Cynical Theories' by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, for an incisive analysis of the sordid history and the intellectual bankruptcy of all the identity politics ideologies.

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