@ChrisBP747 #35422
That it isn’t as common as it’s made to seem doesn’t make the double standard disappear. It may be a minority, but it is a vocal minority that isn’t called out nearly as much as they should. One case I do know of was a few months ago on The View, Joy Behar made a claim that black people cannot be racist, based on her understanding of a single definition of racism that makes it systemic, and only the realm of the political majority. Fortunately Whoopie was there, and not only looked at her like Joy is an idiot (and she was being very idiotic), but told her that in fact black people can be racist, but she did not elaborate it most needs to be.
Yes, the fact is anyone can be racist, since racism is seeing innate differences based on some kind of racial lines, usually denoted by skin color, including an innate superiority/inferior based on those factors of race. Just as the OP did point out, Hispanic racists have a solid idea of what being Hispanic is about, and anyone with the blood must have the attitude, or they’re total traitors. Many black racists have exactly the same attitude. Where the double standard lies is that unfortunately, plenty of people with progressive attitudes hold this idea that this racism either doesn’t exist, or it’s just a natural reaction that shouldn’t be criticized until systemic racism is defeated, always ignoring that systemic or otherwise, racism is an attitude.
Like I say, and agree with you, this isn’t actually widespread among more progressive thought, but it does exist, and while a minority, they are vocal. Just as even the most highly racist Hispanic or black people are only a small minority of the Hispanic and black populations, but they are very vocal, and so easily quoted, and they rarely face any significant challenge from anyone except white racists who use it to try to justify their own racism. Just as, in fact, that kind of racism from whites is only a small minority of the white population, but we rather heavily quote them on this site.
Basically, we all need to be more willing to point out and attack all racists, even if there is something resembling justification for the attitude they may have, because any resemblance of justification for the idea that one race is superior to another, or should be, is strictly cosmetic. And the racist attitudes themselves are highly poisonous to any society, because when you have widespread racism, then even when separation is achieved, the racists just end up attacking each other for other cosmetically justified reasons.