Western rationalism itself generates racism as its necessary false consciousness.

Evidence

Adorno suggests that it is the very form of Western rationality that constructs the Jew as the bearer of atavistic impulses and gives rise to racism as its necessary false consciousness. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1327

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The full inversion of prejudice theory — racism is not an archaism that contaminates rational thought but the rational form’s own necessary product — reverses a foundational assumption and keeps rewarding re-reading.