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Why open racism is better than closed (not totally but partially)... because people are at least learning or having chance to oppose... exposure to alternative opinion / reasoning is important for a % of rascists to learn... 

I'm saying this looking at the 'worst-case' scenario as the more dangerous hidden racism or unlearning type

So the worst case or more dangerous is when people:
- silent racism (silent while discriminating other people)
- not expressing or getting into argument / conversation (not showing intention)
- indirectly forcing / passive aggressive pushing people out (e.g. closing factories from 70's where black people work working all their life in America to take power base away from Black-powered movements at that time)
- Not being visible for others to detect (mixes their politics in less clear ways / can be covered by other nicer-looking things but when you get down to it they still hate black/xyz people ...or to be honest just hate people... which also needs coming back to just 'loving people' for the wonder they are.. (sounds soft but hey it's possible once you clear the crap misconceptions!)

So misconceptions will stick until people mix amongst others and get peppered with different ideas and examples... like a person from countryside becoming more cosmopolitan as never met many other before... people aren't always "racist " just inexperienced with others because working with people (forced by economics or whatever) makes it all harmonise (even in a weird capitalistic way)

Basically alignment is painful either way (like learning is) but not learning or just staying with like-minded people is unhealthy for racists especially to rot.

Again, you are my reality-check if it's gone too wrong in thinking... Adjust accordingly considering context of *this post* only about basically racists learning (or getting more exposure to other views) vs not learning (not getting exposure to other views).

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