I don't want to believe nearly 60% of the white population of the USA is racist or racist-adjacent.
I think once you start to frame racist as 'ignorant or blind to racial inequality/race issues not through hatred but due to lack of exposure to any alternative viewpoints/opinions' as opposed to outwardly/actively racist, in the same way that a lot of peoples grandparents in this country are/were probably a little bit racist - then it becomes a lot more conceivable.
I think it is more uncomfortable, than inconceivable to countenance.
I think once you start to frame racist as 'ignorant or blind to racial inequality/race issues not through hatred but due to lack of exposure to any alternative viewpoints/opinions' as opposed to outwardly/actively racist, in the same way that a lot of peoples grandparents in this country are/were probably a little bit racist - then it becomes a lot more conceivable.
I think it is more uncomfortable, than inconceivable to countenance.