“Joseph Conrad was a thoroughgoing racist. That this simple truth is glossed over in criticisms of his work is due to the fact that white racism against Africa is such a normal way of thinking that its manifestations go completely unremarked.” ThinkingWayFactsSimpleWhiteTruth IsNormalRacismCriticismDuesManifestationRacistWay Of ThinkingSimple TruthsWhite Racism Book:Hopes and impediments: selected essays Source: Hopes and impediments: selected essays
“It is quite normal to be racist, but it is criminal to remain one.” NormalCriminalsRacist Author:Pierre Bourgault
“I'm not a racist. It's really case by case; it's not ethnicity specific. It's just the way I react to things that are different. I think that's normal. Everyone's nervous when they're confronted with things that they don't understand or are different. That's a normal human reaction. It doesn't become racist 'til you say things like, 'Oh, there's a lot of them.'” ThinkingWayHumansDifferentHumorFunnyCasesNormalReactionsNervousRacistEthnicity Author:Marc Maron
“The weird thing was that I went to Trump rallies thinking I was going to run into militant, right wing, racist people and mostly I didn't. That should have been a clue to me. The people I talked to were not, on the surface level, crazy. They were quite nice, quite normal, employed, and actually were wealthier than the press at that time would have led us to believe. At that time, the narrative was that these were all working poor but these were not working poor. That should've been a clue to me that this was a little bigger than I thought.” PeopleThinkingShouldBelieveLittlesHas BeensRunningPoorLevelsNiceCrazyTrumpNormalShould HaveBiggerPressesWingsSurfaceNarrativeRacistClueEmployedShould Have BeenRight WingMilitantWeird Things Author:George Saunders
“Trump is not presidential: this is not normal, it cannot be treated as normal. We have to fight with our last breath to make sure that the vision for the country that this racist white nationalist Bannon has cannot be achieved in this country. We are a country that, whether he likes it or not, is about to become the first nation in the world that is majority minorities.” WorldFirstsCountryLastsFightingNationsWhiteVisionTrumpNormalBreathsMajorityLikesTreatedPresidentialMinoritiesRacist Author:Reza Aslan