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They think that "racism" is when you're openly lynching brown people in the town square. Or marching in klan robes. Or Nazi saluting a Nazi flag. Because they aren't doing that, it means they're not racist. They're not smart enough to understand anything more subtle or indirect like generational poverty caused by a series of intentional hamstringings from enslavement to redlining and the like.
I have bad news, but based on the people I've worked with. Lynching a black dude while wearing full klan robes and shooting a Mexican would be considered "light work" and thus not racist enough to be racism.
The amount of mental gymnastics I've seen is wild.