One could and should argue that irrational racism is never in anyone’s actual self interest, even if they’ve convinced themselves it feels good.
That seems like saying doing crack is in the crackhead’s self interest because the want to, but we all know the detriments substantially outweigh the momentarily benefit.
When you take white supremacy into account, many of those people are voting FOR one of their primary self interests.
One could and should argue that irrational racism is never in anyone’s actual self interest, even if they’ve convinced themselves it feels good.
That seems like saying doing crack is in the crackhead’s self interest because the want to, but we all know the detriments substantially outweigh the momentarily benefit.