What is I'm not being racist, but?

1) An disclaimer that allows the speaker to say whatever they like regardless of how racist it actually is.

2) What a racist may say before they lazily chuck around inherently racist sweeping generalisations but don't want to appear to be racist.

John: I'm not being racist, but I fucking hate black people.

John: I'm not being racist, but all white people are drug-addicts.

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