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Psychoanalysis and Racism

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Isn't Racism the Real?

I think that, yeah, that's your point when you say racism is the real, right? Like that. I mean, this is the problem with colorblind ideology is that it, it misses the real. And then it, of course returns as what do they call it implicit bias or whatever,. That's a race craft term, isn't it? Isn't there a word for implicit bias? It's called racism. Yeah. Sheldon George's position that the enjoyment of racism is, is integral to its success and so he says something like the racial history of America is about binding African Americans discursively to excess as an enjoyment. Of course, and all enjoyment is excessive.

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