Views on this have changed in recent years, according to Pew Research Center surveys. In 2019, 57% said people overlooking racial discrimination was the bigger problem, while 42% pointed to people seeing it where it really didn’t exist. That gap has narrowed from 15 to 8 percentage points.
It’s an interesting metric. It tells you more about the person asked than the question asked.
Do you think you’re racist? I probably am, a little bit. But I end up overthinking it, like “shit, I hope that didn’t seem racist.”