Racism is transmitted through discourse, not innate

Evidence

Ethnic prejudices and ideologies are not innate, and do not develop spontaneously in ethnic interaction. They are acquired and learned, and this usually happens through communication, that is, through text and talk. And vice versa, such racist mental representations are typically expressed, formulated, defended, and legitimated in discourse and may thus be reproduced and shared within the dominant group. It is essentially in this way that racism is “learned” in society. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1055

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Dovetails with the trees-as-infrastructure piece: both trace how a socially loaded system is propagated through communication and material structures rather than emerging spontaneously.
• XREF: Connects to how media and speech acts reproduce dominant-group worldviews, echoing themes in The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Things Fall Apart about how narratives about ‘Them’ get produced. — connects to: Calling Hobbes a racist need not be anachronistic. — , Stephanie B. Martens - Civilization and…, 17; Racism is learned through discourse, beginning in school textbooks — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1108