Doesn&#x27;t this argument potentially defeat itself as a positive thing?<p>If I spent enough time with racists, I might not find racism as repulsive. Describing losing a reaction as &quot;moving past it&quot; suggests to me he had a suspicion of that reaction for other reasons; Had he not, he might have considered himself &#x27;desensitised&#x27;.<p>What I mean by saying this is, flip it around, and people can tolerate a lot of things that are bad. that feeling of &quot;something isn&#x27;t right here&quot; isn&#x27;t always wrong.