But it will tend to lead to selective exposure to people of other races and even to pre-judging information about them. Race realism is the most obvious term for the cognitive component of racism. Here the person entertains sincere beliefs about race differences which are taken to be reasonably important and quite deep-seated. Scientists who are race realists believe that good evidence and cogent arguments can be found to support race realism. Since the Jensen heresy of 1969, it has been standard practice of anti-racists to try to pretend that all such scientific thinking is essentially Nazi in tendency or inspiration despite the fact that Hitler banned IQ testing and brought about the greatest destruction of intellectual talent in his country since the French had driven their Protestand middle class to Berlin by the Massacre of St Bartholomew s Day.
Racial discrimination is the conative component of racism.
The proponent seeks to discriminate according to race as a matter of public policy. Once more, the intention to discriminate can exist on its own, without the affective or cognitive components of true racism. For example, a black politician or a white employer may have no wish to favour blacks, nor any belief that blacks differ so as to need positive discrimination , yet both may think it pragmatic and politic to go along with affirmative action programmes rather than risk the bad publicity of doing otherwise. It has traded off decent people s rejection of populist racism. It shrieks that anything which might address the very real social problems found among black people in the West is racist.