By some people, racism is seen as flowing from our racial biology and is considered natural. However, there’s nothing more natural about racism than any other ideology. The classification of people based on races is recent, within the last 500 years, and races have changed throughout history. There’s no clear biological marker that makes races evolutionarily distinct from one another; races may intermingle with no discernible negative impact (even the much more distinct homo sapiens, Neanderthals, and Denisovans interbred). Racism is an ideological assumption about the world, not a biological necessity. Ideologies spread regardless of race and may be adopted by any member of any race. In the end, racists concede through their choices and actions that ideology, not race, is their primary motivator. They choose those they support based upon those people’s willingness to triumph racism itself and not on their racial characteristics. In many ways, the racist lives in contradiction of not only reality itself but his ideology. Yet, racism is common, and many different modern ideologies adopt racism as a cornerstone of their beliefs (Communism and fascism being the most popular). In the end, racism and ideology are inseparable.
Racism is an ideology. It is a set of beliefs one adopts via choice. Racism is the assumption that a person’s character and choices are determined by their race and that one’s race is primary to one’s existence. It’s a broad assumption about human nature. As such, it involves itself in every facet of human existence. Once adopted, racism becomes a motivating core of a human being. One would not deal with another human but with the idea set that racism provides. Each person must be categorized according to their races and that race’s “character.” Conflicting evidence must be explained away or ignored. Otherwise, the ideology is threatened, and the racist’s worldview and motivations begin to falter. An ideology is so central to a person’s existence that challenging it can create existential crises. Ideology provides an understanding and coherence to the world. In a sense, ideology creates the world for a person. It is the means by which a person engages the world (Even if you don’t have a set school of ideology you follow, you still have your own cohesive set of ideas you follow, no matter how mongrel).
The racist lives a contradiction due to his ideology’s assumptions. The racist must presume that ideology flows from race. Yet, he is confronted with people of his race that don’t share his racism or assumptions about races. Because any ideology can be chosen by any member of any race, the racist has to cut out members of his own race that don’t follow his beliefs, often considering them the worst type of people, e.g. “race traitors.” This directly contradicts his presumptions that character and choice flows from race. He has to select people based on ideology, while discarding race. This leads racists to prefer racists of other races over their own non-racist race members. In some iterations of racism, e.g. some types of Communism, this is less of a problem, as they simply prefer the racial classifications in and of themselves, but, for racists loyal to their own race, this creates a conflict, where they must be hostile to members of the race they triumph. The racist prefers racists of other races because, in the end, he must triumph the ideology above all. Ideology is his motivation and core of action. For him to drop ideology, for race in and of itself, would be to drop racism itself. It would leave him empty and actionless.
Indeed, the debate for racists seems to be split among what ideology should predominate over the races, mostly fascism or Communism (Further reiterating that, even among racists, there are ideological differences within and without races, contradicting the presumption of ideology being racial). Both fascism and Communism see their ideologies as being the right one for adoption across all races; both often create a sort of peace theory, where the different races may coexist on Earth as long as they adopt the preferred ideology. Communism is racial in that races are categorized in how good they are in their compliance with Communist doctrine, such as in Chinese Communism and Bolshevism, with whites being generally classified as inferior for being too capitalistic. Fascism is racial in that races are categorized in how well they triumph and further their own race, such as with Nazi Germany, with Hitler questioning the quality of the German race near Nazi Germany’s downfall. Regardless of the approach, one can see that both classify people and their ideologies based on race, even when contradictory evidence is mounted before them.
Racism is an ideology that believes character and choices are determined by one’s race. This flies in direct contradiction with empirical evidence. The racist resolves this by triumphing his ideology over the members of his race, or other races, in direct contradiction with his ideological beliefs. Indeed, the racists themselves may be broken up into different racist ideologies, further reiterating that chosen ideology is the primary motivator, not the races themselves. Due to the current differences in culture and appearance due to millenia of geographic separation (It is very recent that all of the world has been interconnected), racism may simply be the simplest means for collectivism to conserve its presence.