'casual racism'...tends to be an unconsidered 'cultural default' amongst some working-class groups in particular)

I did also hear such casual racist oral claptrap, as indeed I heard it last September and last summer at the same place - and in places even embedded in otherwise left-ish expression, so not solely from the usual suspects.

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I suppose if I responded differently to things, I would be very angry that there existed such a degree of racism that those people who felt that way-and not the people who are reporting it here-consider it to be casual.

I feel that I should be angry because there are a lot of people whose racism is their cultural default.

I can understand other people being angry and speaking from that anger either because they are themselves a target of such racism, or they have people in their family and/or have friends who are a target of such racism. And I can understand other people being angry whose family and friends fought in wars to try to safeguard the world against the reoccurance of such casual and not so casual racism.

I much prefer responses of anger to racism than blandness and a distancing shrugging of the shoulders that "that's life".

And sometimes I think that there's something wrong with me that I don't have the energy anymore-and rarely ever did-to show my anger about racism. Typing this I realize that it's not that I don't have any feelings of anger about people not seeing me and other people who are different from them without racist blinders on. Maybe it's just that I don't express anger very well or maybe I don't want to express my anger because it is so emotionally draining to do so.

Instead of admitting any anger, when I read comments like the ones I quoted, I just feel very sad.