They just need plausible deniability for their racism when they take joy in brown people being killed by the thousands. The contemporary racist is a coward that hides his true desires.

Well said, it's like that one quote

the process of Western propaganda is better understood in terms of “licensing”: the issuing of moral license for the bourgeois {Global North's labor aristocrat} proletariat to profitably go along with bourgeois designs without the feeling of shame overwhelming