Racism causes ignorance as much as ignorance causes racism

Evidence

It is often taken consequently that across Latin America, as more generally, racism is the product of ignorance. Not knowing better, whether on the part of individuals or institutions, leads to discriminatory expression, to derogatory reference, to failing to address social issues, to the all too easy possibility of ignoring problems because they aren’t identified to begin with. But racism also makes possible the not asking, the failure to collect data, the grounds for ignoring the invisible, and by extension the refusal to address deep social inequities which aren’t recognized as iniquitous precisely because they aren’t recognized at all. Racism, in short, is as much cause as effect. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1222 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Political ignorance functions as an effect of cultural discouragement, not merely its cause — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”: The work of avoiding…, 150; Racism produces the ignorance that is blamed for generating it — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1222; Discrimination causes racist ideas which cause ignorance and hate — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 25 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Racism produces the ignorance that is blamed for generating it #corroborates (0.97) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1222