I don't know how it is in other countries, but in the U.S. the attitude that racism is a courageous thing is hugely prevalent. It has exploded since Obama's election.

Some time recently (last week or the week before), I was in a comments section where we were discussing the murder of Trayvon Martin. Some "brave" individual barged in and posted bullshit statistics that were obviously from something like Stormfront about how black men supposedly rape white women all the time and black woman supposedly are almost never raped. They acted like they were a courageous crusader for truth and justice. The sad thing is, I wasn't surprised at this person's attitude, just that they were clueless enough to post at that particular site and not expect the dogpile that followed.