Racist idea producers are not persuaded by logic because reasons are not their motive.

Evidence

But if there is anything I have learned during my research, it’s that the principal producers and defenders of racist ideas will not join us. And no logic or fact or history book can change them, because logic and facts and scholarship have little to do with why they are expressing racist ideas in the first place. Stamped from the Beginning is about these closed-minded, cunning, captivating producers of racist ideas. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 30

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s testing goal: this directly supports the inversion that ideas serve policy/self-interest rather than being formed by evidence.