cmakaioz
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Racism is obviously a bit more than merely "learned behavior." Racial genocide has been a fixture of human behavior long before the species Homo sapiens even emerged from the hominid line. At some point during the eternal regress which you are unwittingly suggesting, you will have to come to terms with the fact that racism is evidently rooted in survival instincts which were honed through eons of sociobiology and continue to whisper in our subconscious ear: "Be wary of the Other!"
Actually, that's a fairly accurate description__It's a primal instinct inherent to nearly all biological life.Racism is not some generalized fear/instinctive mistrust of "other"-ness.
Racism has absolutely nothing to do with hate and everything to do with avoiding and defending against the dangers of the unknown.It is a specific, historically and politically contingent set of practices based upon a narrow and very recent political fiction.
Actually, that's a fairly accurate description__It's a primal instinct inherent to nearly all biological life.
Racism has absolutely nothing to do with hate and everything to do with avoiding and defending against the dangers of the unknown.
It is a survival tool that predates politics by millions of years for which no amount of political correctness will expedite it's demise.
Racism in the USA will probably never go away. Agree/Disagree
I was talking about today and how it related to the history of our genetic evolution.Fastfoward today..the time we live in btw....
Too late, I already told ya that__sorry.dont try to tell me racism isnt racially and ethnically motivated by hate
I agree, but unfortunately there will always be a few "assholes" around to fan the flames of hate_Like the song goes, I believe it's due to evolutionary conditioning that "everyone's a little bit racist". It's just that some people are assholes about it. I doubt that instinctual fear of people who look different from us will ever go away. Thankfully, most people to live in relative harmony with people of other races.
Yea, I know what ya mean BlaZa__"lynching" black folks is a really BIG problem in the 21st century_Might lynching, committed by the aforementioned racist assholes, one day cease to exist?
We might be getting "more educated" but I believe the "intelligent" part may have stalled.As the human race becomes more educated and intelligent, I think so.
Racism in the USA will probably never go away. Agree/Disagree
Racism is not some generalized fear/instinctive mistrust of "other"-ness. It is a specific, historically and politically contingent set of practices based upon a narrow and very recent political fiction.
You are about as wrong as you can possibly be.
Racism is obviously not specific, at least as far as race goes.
History attests to that abundantly,
and prehistory even more abundantly. For most of the history of the hominid line, political concepts were non-existent, yet by the time Homo sapiens emerged and finished off the Neanderthal, a whole baseball team of hominid species had come and gone, seemingly pushed into oblivion by the one which succeeded it.
As far as recorded human history is concerned, well, it can easily be read as one act of genocide after another, from Jericho to Kosovo, involving just about every race of people, in every corner of the globe, as both victim and victimizer, depending upon the time and place.
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