Racists’ favorite device, in one form or another, is the elegant regret of a humanism wounded and betrayed. It takes on an air of bafflement at how reasonable people can find the speaker’s best intentions so evil, and it invokes a respect for clean individuals, as opposed to the stinking crowd. In claiming to preclude categorical prejudice altogether, it proclaims that very stance: „I’m not racist, but...” (M. Herzfeld, 2007)
04/02/2011
I’m not racist, but...
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