: Re: Sympathetic Racist So when designing characters an important part of them is flaws and how they overcome them or rise above them. And so I wanted to make a character(one of the main characters,

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As a certain character from Zootopia would put it:

"Fear always works."

I soon explain it, but first, as per the universal guideline we found here:

Because, unlike, Hitler, we can understand why he does what he is doing. If we were put into his shoes, we might be doing the same.

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To fine-tune this to racism:

In racism, everyone is on the receiving end, all those dead black people, killed police officers, brutally lynched teachers were all murdered by racists. It's a circlejerk of violence that is nigh impossible to break out from.
Racism doesn't always involve cold-blooded murders, shootouts, Charles Manson, etc. It can be as much as passive fear, nothing malicious, and generally we can forgive that more easily.

I know this answer doesn't add too much new, but the important stuff has already been said.

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