The Four Faces of Race and Racism

The Four Faces of Race and Racism
Simply condemning racism, as a value in isolation, is so imprecise as to be dangerous. It invites definitions that are as wide or particular as whimsy and prejudice may wish.
Racism is consonant with tyranny, as in too well known examples. In this the plain and most exact form was portrayed in placing particular races above others in moral virtue, and indeed reducing one or two to outlaw status. Implying that only a few or one dominant race should survive.
Egalitarianism stands opposed to that, but is itself ambiguous. At one extreme people are expected to ignore and be blind to race, and much else. Treating all mankind as a single interbred race.
At the other extreme, race as part of culture, although not in themselves moral values, are treated as moral virtues, promoting diversity. At least the major races and cultures setting themselves apart in amity.
Where society has broken down and is in chaos, without law. Race and culture would disintegrate, only to rise again according to obvious dictates of social evolution.