A core feature of right-wing reaction in the US is hostility to systematic racism as a constitutive aspect of modern society. Resistance to a systemic conception of racism is evident not only in a preference for understanding racism as individual prejudice, but also in the White Race-evasive Attenuation (WREA) effect: the racism-denying tendency of White Americans to minimize differences in perceptions of discrimination—especially in structural forms—as a function of target race. Across 2 studies, we tested hypotheses to show that the WREA effects are not innocent features due to information deficit but represent a white-interested reaction against systemic racism. We discuss and extend the results  to consider how racism-evasion is not limited to right-wing reaction but is also evident in mainstream social psychology’s conceptualization of intergroup phenomena, such as that of the recent escalation of settler-colonial violence in Israel-Palestine.