Racism is

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24. Racism IS many things

And one of those things is that persons of any race can express the trait.

Just as members of one religion can subjugate members of another, and then in a different context see the roles reversed, so it is true for members of racial groups.

The fallacy that you are expressing here is the notion that the way to make things equal is to switch the roles and punish the privileged race in the same way that the victim race is currently experiencing.

Bigotry is bigotry, and the most insidious kind of bigot is the man or woman who does not realize he or she is a bigot.

Politely telling someone that they should just shut up and accept the bigotry from a (insert color here) person because, after all, they are (insert a different color here) is, in fact, the behavior of a racist.

That might be why some folks keep revisiting the "can non-whites be racists" aspect of this issue. They are subconsciously expressing the dissonance of their own racist behavior as it bumps up against their expressed beliefs that racism is bad.

The novels Animal Farm and The Wave and the classic Brown Eye classroom experiment show how easy it is for the current victims of bigotry to become that which they hate.