Cultural-racism defenses are fallacious since all racism includes cultural components

Evidence

It is sometimes argued that current forms of racism are more ‘cultural’ than previous forms of racism based more on skin colour. It is understandable why farright groups might want to assert such a defence, especially where public understandings of racism still focus on ‘colour’: they claim only to object to the culturally illiberal or otherwise undesirable practices of certain groups, but assert that they are not otherwise ‘racist’. Yet all forms of racism have contained a cultural element, symptomatically by attributing pathological, dangerous or aberrant behaviours to groups ranging from black to Chinese to Jewish people. Nonetheless, the focus on culture as a key component of current forms of racism is useful for understanding why racism and its effects persist even as essentialist biological claims about race have become unfashionable. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 108

Categorization

• XREF: This rebuts the far-right/liberal defense that newer ‘cultural’ objections aren’t racism, a key move distinguishing Runnymede’s stance from those who bracket cultural criticism of Islam. — connects to: Biological racism and cultural differentialism are racism’s two registers, not separate systems; Cultural and biological racisms cannot be sharply separated discursively — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 395; ‘Free-floating’ cultural racism sustains racial hierarchy without naming race at all. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 175 (+10 more)

Related

• Biological racism and cultural differentialism are racism’s two registers, not separate systems (similarity 0.90)
• Cultural racism substitutes cultural traits for biological ones in racializing groups. (similarity 0.87)
• Racism operates through biological and cultural registers that reinforce each other (similarity 0.86)
• Cultural racism locks groups into immutable genealogies just as biological race did. (similarity 0.86)
• Cultural racism locks groups into immutable genealogies as biological racism did (similarity 0.86)
• Cultural and biological racisms cannot be sharply separated discursively (similarity 0.86)
• Racism scholarship long confined itself to biological black-white and antisemitic models (similarity 0.84)
• ‘Free-floating’ cultural racism sustains racial hierarchy without naming race at all. (similarity 0.84)
• Cultural racism substitutes cultural difference for biological difference as a racial logic (similarity 0.84)
• Interpreting Islamophobia solely as cultural racism essentialises and reduces the faith (similarity 0.84)
• Anti-Muslim racism has shifted from bodies to culture while keeping an essentialist logic (similarity 0.83)
• Islamophobia operates as cultural racism rooted in religion, culture, and ethnicity rather than biology. (similarity 0.83)
• The move from biological to cultural racism lets prejudice be renamed cultural critique (similarity 0.83)
• Anti-Muslim signification is culturally constructed rather than biologically grounded. (similarity 0.83)
• Cultural racism targets Muslims’ beliefs and traditions as if they were inherited essence. (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Cultural racism substitutes cultural traits for biological ones in racializing groups. #corroborates (0.85)
• Cultural racism substitutes cultural difference for biological difference as a racial logic #corroborates (0.85)
• Racialization can proceed from cultural traits without any phenotypic difference #corroborates (0.82) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 88
• Racism operates through biological and cultural registers that reinforce each other #complicates (0.80)
• Cultural practices become racialized when they are essentialized as innate to Muslims #exemplifies (0.78) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 274
• Racism has no universal structure but only historically specific forms #qualifies (0.75)
• Racism functions as practices that ascribe and legitimate social positions #expands (0.75)
• Anti-Muslim discrimination is justified by invidious reference to Muslim cultural practices #exemplifies (0.75) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 108
• Racism exists as a variable spectrum, not a single invariant form #qualifies (0.72)