why are people okay with engaging with the idea of communism, but not antiracism?

 i wrote this somewhere else, where people were being fragile about 'woke' and antiracism. maybe it's enlightening for someone here, too

but that is the core of the problem:
people are fine with engaging with the idea of communism
(actually a lot of people aren't, but i imagine people here are), but absolutely not with antiracism. but
racism is just as much a systemic thing as economics is.
everybody is against racism (again: every rational person
here), but nobody wants to think they're
contributing to keeping it going. but they have to be,
because it *is* ongoing: people of color are systemically
disadvantaged (this is where the divide starts among
rational thinking people starts, with like half not really
wanting to believe this). this not wanting to explore one's
own part in this system, is a big part of what keeps the
system of racism going.

what you probably have to do is do away with shame (this is
something i read somewhere: that shame is a pretty useless
thing to base one's actions on). you didn't decide for
racism to exist, that's a failing of society as a whole, but
it *is* your responsibility to help fix it, by looking at
yourself. and if you don't want to do that, because you
enough life going on, the least you can do is not be
defensive and go say woke people are the problem