"Ideologies of hatred have never required coherent definitions of the hated… “I decide..."

“Ideologies of hatred have never required coherent definitions of the hated… “I decide who is a Jew,” Karl Lueger said. Slaveholders decided who was a nigger and who wasn’t. The decision was arbitrary. The effects are not. Ahistorical liberals—like most Americans—still believe that race invented racism, when in fact the reverse is true. The hallmark of elegant racism is the acceptance of mainstream consensus, and exploitation of all its intellectual fault lines.”

- Ta-Nehisi Coates, This Town Needs a Better Class of Racist