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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
denying who and what we are as a species doesn't make you enlightened. it just means you're naive about who and what we are and in love with a cute idea about how things should be.... even though its never and never will happen.
racism and hate is not as simple as teaching someone "they're bad" - though the teaching clearly helps. when resources are limited, when resources are in dispute, when one group has disproportionate influence over the resources of another and so on or even when these perceptions exist, people form tighter and tighter group bonds, in-groups to point at the out-groups and on and on it goes until tensions boil over. this is who we are as a species. this is what animals do.
all of our behaviors are survival related and the result of eons of group and individual selection. they don't just popup because someone got uppity and decided to start talking shit about another.
we're all just as capable of genocide as we are of empathizing with and helping others. it simply depends on the circumstances leading up to the event.
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Oh yeah! We're all primal and capable of anything at any time so hating Jews or "fill in the blank" is ok because it could be worse and because it's being done it's only natural.
Such bullshit and intellectually lazy at best.
Humans are mammals, a social animal with a societal structure. You can have 5 people in an elevator that breaks down (all people the same sex, color & race) .
If one of those people starts jumping up and down to be an asshole theres gonna be a problem for that person, that's who racists, xenophobes and other haters are in our society. Its not natural to be a loud mouthed hater, it's obnoxious.