[asciident]

After reading your sentence, it occurred to me that it's no longer clear in today's age if you're referring to people using racial discrimination to hire underrepresented groups as racist, or the ones who oppose racial-based hiring and only hiring on "merit" as racist because they oppose race-based preferential hiring.

[sonotathrowaway]

I don’t think it matters. In general people that do harm to others in any way believe their actions are justified. It’s not special to racism, humans as a whole are pretty averse to causing unjustified harm to others.

[jmpman]

You mean the ones who follow the law as defined by Title VII of the Civil Rights bill?