I'm just going to say it as I've seen it first hand, not talking about global racism patterns or anything as far as data goes, just what I've seen and believe. Best thing about the internet is how we can have collective opinions on things with data and such to back them up, but I'm definitely not okay with racism in any facet. That being said, I don't think I've met a single person that didn't say something that came off as racist at least once in the entirety of my memory. There are different levels of racism that I have personally picked up on and I even categorized them.

Blatant racism which is saying something to someone's face with the intent to offend and humiliate based on their race.

Experiential racism which is developed by a individual or groupd experience with people of other races, say someone of another race did something bad to you and now you have developed a hatred for people of that race as a result or they do something out of kindness for you and you praise people of that race for what they did.

Passive racism where someone assumes they know something about someone because of their race without thinking about it first or intending to offend.

I think it's unavoidable and impossible to erase from society because this stuff has been ingrained in society since the beginning, and most forms of racism go unnoticed. For example, I was having a casual conversation with a friend of mine from Iran about how to play poker, she followed up sometime in the game with a simple short statement. "white people have weird hobbies" and I categorize that as passive racism. Now I'm not offended in any way by that, but I can see someone taking offense to that especially when you involve other races into that equation. In the moment it was taken as a funny comment. Prior to that though, she has gone out of her way to say that she really doesn't like white people once before, citing that they are oppressive and that someday they will not exist anymore. To me, that sounds no different from the same rhetoric commonly heard from blatant racists. The thing is though, when white people are racist it's