To the extent that casual racism perpetuates institutional racism, for example, or creates an environment hostile to certain people, it's overtly harmful. Same logic applies to any sort of bigotry. But I dunno, there's just something that's so beyond the pale for me when it comes to self-righteous outraged mob justice of the sort described in that times article. Anyway, that's a de-rail.
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