In a primal sense, racism involves favoring the people who are closest to you genetically. It is funny how most liberal left-wingers (well, me, at least) would never think of not hiring someone because he was of a different race or religion, but, at the same time, would try to get their child a bigger slice of birthday cake than the other kids or would lobby for extra attention from a teacher or a coach.
In an interview with the New Yorker’s Deborah Treisman, author Etger Keret discusses racism and the danger of over-protective parenting, and how the two intersect. Favoring one’s own child above all others, Keret says, is the “purest form of racism.”
