Refined and crude racism share the same presumptive core.

Evidence

Between Mill’s “Negro” and Carlyle’s “Nigger,” then, lies the common thread of racist presumption and projection, bald and vicious, on the one hand, polite and effete, on the other, but both nevertheless insidious and odious. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 2134

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the distinction in “Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back” between elite-coded and vulgar forms of the same moral stance — the ‘polite versus bald’ axis recurs.
• DEFINE: Sharpens the analytic claim that racial presumption exists on a continuum from genteel philosophical abstraction to violent slur, with the same underlying logic.