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It is also true that "many" Westerners are more enlightened than that, but the ones that aren't always shout the loudest.
There are both many racist westerners and many enlightened ones.
Beware the hazard of minimizing how many of our countrymen are extremely racist. It's more prevalent than you might think. We know exactly what Elon is saying because we all know an asshole like that.
Especially how many will be extremely racist when the only people who they think will hear are their families.
The thing about many is that many people can think one thing while many can think otherwise. The fact that I still get thanked by Arab strangers for treating them like people indicates that it wasn’t some tiny minority of westerners. From what I’ve heard from Arabs and people mistaken for Arabs (such as Iranians and Muslim desi folks) a loud and significant minority were/are actively racist towards Arabs that was significantly larger during the early 00s. But also there’s a lot of passive racism, stuff like assuming Arabs don’t want to be friends, neighbors, or colleagues. Stuff like assuming Arabs’ views on various things.
I'm sorry to disappoint you but a sizeable proportion of westerners in my humble experience are racist towards Arabs and Muslims. It's literally the core of the platform under which the extreme right wing thrives in Europe