My point, sad as it may be, is that some degree of racism on some level, conscious or unconscious, has become the default setting after it saturating our society for so long. People don’t have to be overtly racist, they just have to not resist the urge to generalize based on ethnicity.
It’s like opening a file on a computer, if you just double click (or whatever Mac users do), the file will be read using the default program, you have to right click and specifically choose a different way of reading the file for it to be viewed in any other way. On a computer, you can select a new default program, but with the brain, you have to actively try and think differently for a long time for anything to change, if ever. The importance of critical thinking, is that we are critical of what and how we think about things, because the easiest thing to do, is not to even notice that we are choosing the default setting.
Do I think (x) because (y)?
