I think we just fundamentally agree on whether or not it is a "moral deficiency" to be racist. I believe it is a moral deficiency to treat someone differently

I think we just fundamentally agree on whether or not it is a "moral deficiency" to be racist. I believe it is a moral deficiency to treat someone differently because of their race. I don't believe it is a moral deficiency to have fleeting thoughts that might be racist and acknowledging that those thoughts exist but they don't make you an immoral person unless you let it dictate your behavior. And I do believe that many white people struggle to not get defensive because they have (possibly minimal) racist thoughts even if they don't act on them. In my mind having those thoughts doesn't make them immoral. It makes them human. I believe that I (and literally everyone) can be a racist by landing on SOME level of the continuum. But that my racism (which i believe i literally can't avoid through no fault of my own) can be overcome with being thoughtful, empathetic, and moral. I also believe that literally everyone is racist, so that might be clouding the conversation further. (I don't subscribe to the "minorities can't be racist" theories.) (Also, I'm just an IT guy. I'm by no means an expert on this and probably shouldn't even be commenting on this.)