re: What percentage of racism is actual racism

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Bottom line, real racism barely exists.

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Not sure I agree with that statement, I've seen it first hand with people I know or have associated with. Irrational thinking in people who are otherwise rational. Mostly people from my parents generation (I'm a 54 year old whit guy FTR). I know someone who has not boted in the presidential election the last 2 times because he would not vote for a Republican and would not vote for a black man.

I do think institutional racism is nearly nonexistent and that things are almost immeasurably better than when I was a child.

Part of the issue with addressing these issues in today's world is the proclivity for hyperbole that the 24 hour news cycle and social media have exacerbated and the outcome bias that both sides seem to apply to any situation.

At least football season is here