Blum’s account of racism was devised as a means of preventing the overuse of the word ‘racist’ and to separate racism from “racial ills” (Blum, Of Race, 2002, p. 2). However, both are still wrong (Blum, Racism, 2002, p. 206). Blum develops a degree approach to racism to avoid what he calls (Blum, Of Race, 2002, p. 28) ““categorical drift”” (Blum, Of Race, 2002, p. 13). Being a racism is not “an “all or nothing” matter. … Racism comes in degrees, and it is worse to be more rather than less racist, even if it is bad to be racist in whatever degree” (Blum, Of Race, 2002, p. 29). For example, “Harboring racist feelings that one never expresses is not as morally bad as expressing them whenever one has the chance.” (Blum, Of Race, 2002, p. 29). …show more content…
6)(Blum, Racism, 2002, p. 210). These two parts of racism are “inferiorization, and antipathy” (Blum, Racism, 2002, p. 210). The former – which is “linked to historical racist doctrines and social systems” (Blum, Racism, 2002, p. 210) – states that people can have the view that a different race is in some way lesser than your own race (Blum, Racism, 2002, p. 210). This can manifest through being disrespectful to those races that you hold this view towards (Marway, 2017, p. 6). An example of “inferiorization” (Blum, Racism, 2002, p. 210) is some of the Buddhists – within Myanmar – views towards the Rohingya. Some refuse to acknowledge them as Rohingya, and instead call them ‘Bengali’ (Keane, 2017). “Racial antipathy is simply a strong dislike … toward individuals or groups because of their race.” (Blum, Racism, 2002, p. 210). An example of this is the beliefs held by the Klu-Klux-Klan, particularly towards blacks (Blum, Racism, 2002, p. 210) (Kamouni,