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What exactly *is* racism? Is there anything to be said either in favour of or against such beliefs?

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To employ Scott Alexander's concept, there's a motte and bailey.
The motte (the well defended center argument that pretty much no one wants to attack) is "it's racist and wrong to lynch black men because you heard a rumor that they slept with a white woman".
The bailey (the greater argument that the sneaky Other Team will try to occupy the moment you turn your back) is "racism is any time that outputs are not proportioned the exact same way as inputs...and it's any time a person with white skin (no matter what their ethnicity) does something we dislike". So the fact that more Asians graduate with STEM degrees than do blacks is racism. And the fact that a Hispanic man shot a black man who was assaulting him is racism. And the fact that blacks commit more murders than whites and are arrested for more murders than whites is racism.
I strongly agree with the motte of racism. I strongly disagree with the bailey.
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