Four Problems with the Anti-Racist Notion that All White People are Racist

Will Shetterly
Comrade Morlock’s Journal
2 min readMar 3

Many race reductionists believe as an article of faith that all white people are racist because they were raised in a racist society. It’s an old argument, but Medium just reminded me of it by recommending Christyl Rivers’ “Scott Adams Is Racist, But, So Are You And I. We Must Face This.” Rivers says,

Yet, if you are in the Earth’s Atmosphere, a world where racism is in the very air we breathe, there is no way to not be contaminated by our present system.

Will Shetterly
Comrade Morlock’s Journal

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