There Are 4 Kinds Of Racists: Which One Are You?

Underwritten by Tristan James Jr.

I’ve been a victim of racism for most of my life. This has given me the intuition and hindsight to infallibly detect the type of racist one is dealing with.

First, there are the Empathetic racists. They call you up whenever there’s a racist incident reported on in the media. They demonstrate alongside you at Black Lives Matter protests, they talk about how shocked they are at open displays of racism.

“They work to ensure that everyone is treated fairly. They work toward a better world for humanity.”

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The Supremacist racists are those that believe that white people are superior to black and brown people. They categorize all nonwhites as sub-human. In fact, they dehumanize black people to better abuse them.

They feel threatened by what they say is “the big replacement”: a white extremist theory that says that black and brown people are willfully trying to out-populate white people.

“Without the iPhone cameras filming, these people will kill black people whenever they have a chance.”

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So the reality is that racists can belong to one or several of the above categories. Some can be Supremacist racists and Sadist racists at the same time.

Others can be Empathetic racists and Fetishist racists. Cross-pollination occurs across these categories all the time, but whatever the racist, they are harmful and sometimes life-threatening to black and brown people.