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Any blanket criticism of millions or billions of people is bound to be highly inaccurate and also have some non zero degree of accuracy just due to the sheer nu
by everdev 7y ago
Any blanket criticism of millions or billions of people is bound to be highly inaccurate and also have some non zero degree of accuracy just due to the sheer numbers of people and how common these traits are in any population.
Racism is taking the non-zero existence of a complaint and extrapolating it to the broader population without caring to get to know the individual people.
Unfortunately, it was probably an evolutionary survival technique that worked thousands of years ago but has pretty disastrous consequences today.
- pasquinelli 7y agoWhy do you think it is a biological trait rather than a politically useful tool? What do we know about racism outside the context of complex mass societies with highly stratified classes of members? Maybe it's an effective con and not a natural instict.
- darepublic 7y agoDon't we know that chimps engage in large scale tribal warfare. And that our ancestors killed off the Neanderthals
- pasquinelli 7y agoWhat's that got to do with racism of the type this thread has been about? edit, to be clear, what sort of contradictory, no-win steriotypes to chimps have about other chimp groups or did early modern humans have about neanderthals?