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Originally Posted by octothorp
If I allow racism to happen, and encourage it to happen, and take steps to profit from it happening, but don't actively participate in it, I'd say that makes me a racist.
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I couldn't disagree more.
I think it makes you a pretty cynical person and in my view it's immoral behaviour, but it's not racist. It's not motivated by racial hatred. It's motivated by selfishness and ambition - you're so focused on these things that you're willing to manipulate others' racist tendencies to your advantage. There's a clear moral difference.
There's an argument as to which is worse - a true believer, or what you're describing. I think it's the former, probably, but there's a case to be made either way. The point is that these are very different moral actors.