What is protected by challenging political correctness? Yes, the right to abuse. Shannon Sullivan: "habits of white [and other] privilege can operate by means of ideologies of desire located in the psychological pleasure that white people have taken in humiating black people...Because of the importance of unconscious racial fantasies and desires to the maintenance of many white people's sense of self, habits of racial prejudice tend to have a flexible tenacity that allows them to adjust to increased exposure to non white others. But the point needs to be made even more strongly. It is not just the roots of racial prejudice are so deep in the unconscious that mere increased familiarity over the passage of time will not force be forceful or strong enough to yank them out. It is also that habits of white privilege can actively operate precisely so as to multiply and strengthen those roots and to thwart any attempts too eliminate them... Read as an account of the unconscious operations of white privilege Morrison's Beloved not only shows the pleasure that white people have taken in racial domination, but also the active and devious effort that the white unconscious might engage in to produce and protect that pleasure." From Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege, pp. 42-3
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