A Unified Race Theory, Anti Extreme Antiracism

It is widely believed that racism is one of the biggest problems in human history. This can be obvious when looking at some of the biggest atrocities humanity has ever committed like mass slavery and mass genocide. The outlawing of slavery and genocide are something everyone can agree on, but where it gets tricky is when and how to put hard limits on racism. The problem with forcing antiracism is definitional, but not only definitional: to achieve an important goal like reducing racism, the goals need to be defined as well as the outcomes to avoid while pursuing those goals, and this is the problem with forcing antiracism when racism and antiracism are not widely well defined. Extreme antiracism has negative, unintended consequences for the culture that it exists in: A healthier culture finds a better balance to reduce racism while still not getting extremely antiracist or attempting to force outcomes.

There is not a widely agreed upon definition of racism or antiracism at this point, and one person cannot assert a definition as fact: however, what can be done is the outlining of the pragmatic use of such important terms. This can be done by distinguishing types of racism and when it may or may not be useful to use force (by violence or government threat). In Yuval Noah Harari’s book “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” he makes important distinctions in an effort to better deal with the term…