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 What do people get out of being racist? Is their self-esteem that low? It is truly a mystery to me. 
 @2a70c54d I think so. It's always seemed like a really pathetic coping method for life's uncertainties to me 
 @2a70c54d nah they're just disapproving of behavior that they've blanket applied to an entire people who happen to have a label that's different from them oh wait that's racist... 
 @2a70c54d Racism always baffles me on a fundamental level of being nonsensical. And that's my problem. I want things to make sense and there's never any reason racism does. So I can list all the ways it's not logical but that doesn't matter when it too conveniently serves too many narratives for people who have no interest in rationalizing their attitudes. And are often, in fact, trained to exalt the irrational as an ultimate and unquestioned authority.

TL: DR It sucks and they're horrible.