Racism (n.) is today something which manifests in the guise of respect. Instead of 'my culture is better than yours', postmodern or reflexive racism will argue that 'my culture is different from yours'.
Racism (n.) in its postmodern form is a violent reaction to the virtualization of the Other: what disturbs the racist — the way they laugh, the smell of their food — is the little piece of the Real attesting their presence beyond the symbolic.
Racism (n.) today is not a remnant of enchantment but postmodern: when post-ideological pragmatism forecloses class antagonism as an old fiction, the political returns in the Real, grounding differences in the biological or social Real of race.
Racism (n.) in everyday life fixes on a tiny feature — the way they accentuate a word, count money, laugh — that renders the other an alien no matter how much they behave like us.
Racism (n.) betrays itself in one question asked of only one candidate: 'What does Jackson really want?' — the Jew, for the anti-Semite, is the one whose desire is never clear.
Racism (n.) is bothered above all by the Other's enjoyment: the Jew, the Arab, the Black is always presumed to have access to some special jouissance — and he need not exist for the presumption to work.
Racism (n.) to the second power is the politically correct kind: it attributes racism to the Other while we watch as neutral, righteously dismayed observers.
Racism (n.) is protected under the banner of free speech precisely through the appearance of being prohibited.