Naming race off the table makes the harm itself disappear from consideration

Evidence

Here too, then, we find a kind of strategic transcoding, but of a somewhat different type: the incorporation of the structural other or excluded of a given system by endowing it with a name drawn from the terminological field of the system itself. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 527 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Erasure of racial vocabulary forecloses ethical recognition of harm.; Erasure of racial language makes naming racism itself look mad — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 838; Evaporating race shifts the offense from the harm to the utterance of the term (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Systems incorporate their excluded outside by giving it a name from their own vocabulary #complicates (0.73) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 527
• Racist meaning can be conveyed without explicit racial reference #complicates (0.72)