Why is racism the most offensive method of personal insult?

IMO it's because of the mob mentality. You know how everybody always says that bullying is bad ? Well let's take on example when a woman (I forgot her name) wrote something along the lines of "I hope I won't get aids" before she turned her phone off and took her flight to africa. Dark humor, yes it was actually racist, but it was a stupid joke. After the flight landed she turned her phone on again just to find out that she was #1 twitter trend and that she lost her job, because her tweet became famous. She got bullied for months afterwards, death threats etc.

Almost nobody hears a racist insult and is like "Oh my god, but the historical context clearly shows me, that there were multiple problems in the past..." and so on. It's just that everybody knows that racists lose their value in society and therefore they aren't worth anything anymore and can be treated as you wish. And all of the sudden, bullying becomes justified. Credibility is lost too, since nobody gives someone value when they know that they wouldn't have any value in a society.

TL;DR: Humans being shitty, because they don't realise they are just as shitty as shitty humans.

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