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This is just like that guy in 1984 who gets denounced by his kid for talking about Big Brother in his sleep. So you remember a racist song? So what? What is racism? People are either different or the same. People organize themselves into societies based on fixed, established roles that they adopt and which, for the most part, across the board, are stereotypes. There are at least two kinds of racism: 1. real, virulent, classical racism and 2. a sort of prophylactic racism, one more accurately described as a general misanthropy, and which consists simply in realizing to what extent the depraved monkeys that we all are will settle, like water finding a low point, the most narcissism-gratifying position that is open to us.
