Using formal fallacies to argue for racial hierarchy. Common moves: composition fallacy, false equivalence, circular reasoning about IQ and "race."
Example: "The average Black SAT score is lower, so this Black student must be bad at math." That's the composition fallacy—confusing group means with individuals.
Rational Racism
The claim that if average group differences exist (even partially), then discriminatory policies would be "reasonable." Confuses statistical correlation with moral justification.
Example: "Even if the data show lower cognitive scores for Group X, shouldn't we track them separately? That's just rational." No—that's the naturalistic fallacy.
Example: "The average Black SAT score is lower, so this Black student must be bad at math." That's the composition fallacy—confusing group means with individuals.
Rational Racism
The claim that if average group differences exist (even partially), then discriminatory policies would be "reasonable." Confuses statistical correlation with moral justification.
Example: "Even if the data show lower cognitive scores for Group X, shouldn't we track them separately? That's just rational." No—that's the naturalistic fallacy.
Logical Racism
Using formally valid logic with racist premises to reach racist conclusions, making discrimination appear reasonable.
Example: "All complex civilizations require non-African agency. Egypt had complex civilization. Therefore Egypt was not African." Logical form hides racist premise.
Rational Racism
The assumption that Western rationality is the highest cognitive form, positioning non-Western peoples as less rational, emotional, or primitive.
Example: Claiming ancient Egyptians couldn't have developed mathematics because "abstract reasoning" emerged only in Greece—denying African rationality a priori.
Using formally valid logic with racist premises to reach racist conclusions, making discrimination appear reasonable.
Example: "All complex civilizations require non-African agency. Egypt had complex civilization. Therefore Egypt was not African." Logical form hides racist premise.
Rational Racism
The assumption that Western rationality is the highest cognitive form, positioning non-Western peoples as less rational, emotional, or primitive.
Example: Claiming ancient Egyptians couldn't have developed mathematics because "abstract reasoning" emerged only in Greece—denying African rationality a priori.
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Get the Logical Racism mug.Unequal application of scientific doubt: demanding overwhelming proof from scholars of color about structural racism, while accepting weak evidence for racial deficit theories.
Example: "Where's your RCT proving police bias?" But when a paper suggests a genetic basis for IQ gaps, same reviewer says, "Interesting—needs more study."
Evidence-based Racism
Using systematic reviews, clinical algorithms, and risk assessments that treat race as a biological proxy, producing racially biased outcomes with scientific authority.
Example: A kidney function algorithm automatically adjusts results for "Black race," delaying transplant referrals for Black patients. It's published in a top medical journal.
Empirical Racism
The smug belief that if you can count it and run statistics on it, it must be objective truth—ignoring that categories, sampling, and questions were shaped by colonial racism.
Example: "But the arrest data clearly show more Black crime. I'm just following the numbers." Never mind that policing targets Black neighborhoods. Math-shaped bigotry.
Example: "Where's your RCT proving police bias?" But when a paper suggests a genetic basis for IQ gaps, same reviewer says, "Interesting—needs more study."
Evidence-based Racism
Using systematic reviews, clinical algorithms, and risk assessments that treat race as a biological proxy, producing racially biased outcomes with scientific authority.
Example: A kidney function algorithm automatically adjusts results for "Black race," delaying transplant referrals for Black patients. It's published in a top medical journal.
Empirical Racism
The smug belief that if you can count it and run statistics on it, it must be objective truth—ignoring that categories, sampling, and questions were shaped by colonial racism.
Example: "But the arrest data clearly show more Black crime. I'm just following the numbers." Never mind that policing targets Black neighborhoods. Math-shaped bigotry.
Skeptical Racism
Applying extreme, asymmetrical scrutiny to claims benefiting racialized groups while granting easy credulity to claims benefiting whiteness.
Example: Demanding DNA proof for African origins of Egypt but accepting "Dynastic Race Theory" with zero genetic evidence—skepticism reserved for Black claims.
Evidence-based Racism
Selectively deploying empirical data to construct racial hierarchies, ignoring contradictory evidence and weaponizing the language of evidence-based practice.
Example: Citing one genetic study suggesting Near Eastern admixture in late-period mummies as "proof Egyptians weren't African," while downplaying same study's Nubian affinities.
Empirical Racism
The demand that only quantifiable, measurable data counts as knowledge, defined in ways that exclude non-Western realities, then using that absence as proof of inferiority.
Example: Dismissing African astronomical knowledge because no written records exist, while ignoring that their knowledge was oral—empiricism as a racial gatekeeper.
Applying extreme, asymmetrical scrutiny to claims benefiting racialized groups while granting easy credulity to claims benefiting whiteness.
Example: Demanding DNA proof for African origins of Egypt but accepting "Dynastic Race Theory" with zero genetic evidence—skepticism reserved for Black claims.
Evidence-based Racism
Selectively deploying empirical data to construct racial hierarchies, ignoring contradictory evidence and weaponizing the language of evidence-based practice.
Example: Citing one genetic study suggesting Near Eastern admixture in late-period mummies as "proof Egyptians weren't African," while downplaying same study's Nubian affinities.
Empirical Racism
The demand that only quantifiable, measurable data counts as knowledge, defined in ways that exclude non-Western realities, then using that absence as proof of inferiority.
Example: Dismissing African astronomical knowledge because no written records exist, while ignoring that their knowledge was oral—empiricism as a racial gatekeeper.
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Coined by New Zealand member of parliament, Winston Peters, to describe being a self hating Māori.
Used in incitement to gain votes from his white colonial voting demographic.
Coined by New Zealand member of parliament, Winston Peters, to describe being a self hating Māori.
Used in incitement to gain votes from his white colonial voting demographic.
Quote: "That inverse racism, I detest and have all my life."
"inverse racism is so important for kiwis to understand. so glad for Mr Peters."
"inverse racism is so important for kiwis to understand. so glad for Mr Peters."
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