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Have you ever heard of the term minority stress?
I'm saying that racists cause harm to the people they are racist against. While you may be fine with people being racist in general, just personally I'm not okay with someone saying my race makes me somehow lesser. I think most people would agree with me. Going beyond racist words, you also have to consider racist actions such as hate crimes, creating racist policies, etc etc.
I had not heard of the term but am familiar with the concept. I think that stress would be a positive for the race in the long run. A lack of that stress would make one complacent. I could see you arguing that it would be damaging in the short term however. I'm ok with that. I compare it to health outcomes in chronic illness. There's not nearly as much minority stress on obese people as there was in the past, because the interventions are simply better and people can continue to wreak havoc to their bodies and only pay a small price thru surgery compared to death in the past. While those innovations might save more lives in the short term than a lacking of them would, I'd argue they are more damaging in the long run.