There's an old saying: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it" (often attributed to Upton S

There's an old saying: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it" (often attributed to Upton Sinclair, not sure if that's true or not tho). Id like to suggest that what you are calling "familiarity bias" might have a component of the quote in it too. Not salary in this case, but social position. That is in the racist system, one race of folks get better treatment, and if they want to maintain better treatment, the status quo must be maintained. The group of people at top of a racial hierarchy (that is in the supreme position), are incentivized to keep the racist system. When race is considered a bad reason to judge a person, they still are incentivized to maintain the system, just find different words to justify the status quo. I guess a different way of saying this is - white supremacy describes a race based social hierarchy where white people are at the highest level. It has also been used to describe the lowlife Nazi or KKK wannabes that advocate for it in the baldest terms, but they are bigots who advocate for white supremacy using racist terms like "inferior genetics" or worse. Compare the term racist itself - there are folks who would have you believe that the term is limited to personal bigotry against people of a different race, and has nothing to do with the rules and actions of systems (a position I think you don't hold due to your description of racist systems).