Anger, therefore has the potential to be both emotionally and physically abusive and therefore is doubly to be feared. Yet, these two emotions, fear and anger, keep sexism and racism alive. Whatever racist assumptions are made about any particular race also feed on fear and anger and a false sense of superiority or inferiority. Gender and race are both birth rights, and biased assumptions based on them violate the person with the bias and the person who is the object of it. In racism, the race that conquers and dominates another is considered the superior race, as is the race with the greatest anger.
Righteous anger is a racist way of claiming superiority.
Often, gentler nations and races are looked down on as too much like women, and female weakness is attributed to them because gentleness is seen as weak. We are left to deplore sexism and racism and the violation it does to our integrity and our complexity. Honesty and fairness are jeopardised, as we have seen, but so are caring and respect. If emotions are to be treated respectfully and caringly, we must not have disdain for any of them. To be true to our emotions without being abusive with them requires us to treat each and every emotion we have with the greatest care and respect.