Why do some people become racists? (Christmas, controversial, million, world)
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That is a huge part of it.
I would add, exposure to those who insist upon being the stereotype. I'll pick on my own,. You will always have a few good ole boys in the crowd following the white trash check list.
Truck with oversized tires. Check
Truck with rebel flag in back window. Check
Truck with horn that plays dixie. Check
Can of chew in back pocket. Check
wife beater tank top. Check
missing and rotten teeth.. Check
Everything is them Ni@@ers fault. Check
Walking around with a gun on their hip. Check
I always keep wondering if there are gains or benefits for being a racist. Does being racist makes one live a better quality of life, have things easily and makes one's life more happy and fulfilling? I really want to know because the division and destruction caused to innocent people and businesses by acts of racism is getting very alarming and I want to know if the benefits for being a racist surpass such negative aftereffects of such acts. Just a curious individual wanting to know what the benefits for being a racist are.
No gains that I know of. If you were bullied by another race, that might create racism.
Africans are not more violent or aggressive than whites to begin with.
As I've already shown, there are genes that increase your tendency towards violent and impulsive behavior. Should we expect every human population to have an exactly equal distribution of these genes?
But having these genes doesn't necessarily mean you'll be violent, just like having the gene that causes schizophrenia doesn't necessarily mean you'll have schizophrenia. Though again, blacks are nearly 3x more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia.
The truth is, we have it in our power to find exactly the proportion of the population of every race with all of these deleterious genes. They can even do MRI studies of the brain and predict your IQ. But we won't, not because we can't, but because it would be unethical.
The truth is, no one wants to know. You don't want to know. And what good would come out of it?
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Africans are rather different from African-Americans in my view.
African-Americans are 1/4th white on average.
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I have read that neanderthal genes in us have mostly to do with our immune system.
They do a number of things, and we don't know what all they do. I know one of the neanderthal genes also increases your risk of depression. And they'll continue to find out more as time goes on.
Indeed, the question is not whether or not race exists. It doesn't, most scientists agree on that.
They agree that race is a social-construct, and it is. Race is a spectrum, like the colors of the rainbow. We know the colors of the rainbow, Roy G Biv, and they seem obvious to us as separate and definable colors, but if you look at the range of visible light, it is a gradient. As the wavelength falls, the color slowly transitions from red to orange to yellow to green. At what wavelength does red stop being red and become orange? And at what wavelength does orange stop being orange and become yellow?
And if orange is merely a mix of red and yellow, does that mean red and yellow don't exist? That everything is orange? Colors are another social-construct.
In an immigrant country closing borders at some point is an arbitrary decision.
What is an immigrant country? Why does immigration exist? And what is a country? Everything in life is arbitrary, but everything is rational. Immigration is rational, opposition to immigration is rational. Racism is rational, antiracism is rational. These are value judgements.
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My love is always very conditional.
Then it isn't love. Love is not something you choose, it is just something you feel. And sometimes you feel it even when you don't want to, even when you're trying not to. The question is, why does love exist? What is the point?
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I always keep wondering if there are gains or benefits for being a racist. Does being racist makes one live a better quality of life, have things easily and makes one's life more happy and fulfilling? I really want to know because the division and destruction caused to innocent people and businesses by acts of racism is getting very alarming and I want to know if the benefits for being a racist surpass such negative aftereffects of such acts. Just a curious individual wanting to know what the benefits for being a racist are.
People start acquiring ideas from their parents. Then their friends.
Why on earth would you imagine that being a racist makes for a better quality of life? Unless you think it adds to quality of life by nurturing hatred and enjoying having an entire people stomped on.
The main benefit to racism is that it allows inferior people to feel superior to others. This was especially evident with poor whites in the Deep South. No matter how desperate and ignorant their lives were, they could always feel superior to any black person.
Unless you think it adds to quality of life by nurturing hatred and enjoying having an entire people stomped on.
You have literally no idea what racism is.
Yes, everyone who is racist is ignorant, and you're oh so enlightened. Is that what you wanted to hear? Do you feel superior now? Did you virtue-signal enough for today? Where are you going after this to get your next dopamine fix, Reddit or Facebook?
I don’t understand the question. According to this forum, racism vanished the minute the slaves were freed and any claims of racism are just a fake news socialist Marxist hoax plot paid for by Soros. So how can anything make people racists, if nobody is racist?
That is a huge part of it.
I would add, exposure to those who insist upon being the stereotype. I'll pick on my own,. You will always have a few good ole boys in the crowd following the white trash check list.
Truck with oversized tires. Check
Truck with rebel flag in back window. Check
Truck with horn that plays dixie. Check
Can of chew in back pocket. Check
wife beater tank top. Check
missing and rotten teeth.. Check
Everything is them Ni@@ers fault. Check
Walking around with a gun on their hip. Check
I missed a few, but it is fairly close.
You said it! I don’t want anything to do with this ^^^post. Lol
As I've already shown, there are genes that increase your tendency towards violent and impulsive behavior. Should we expect every human population to have an exactly equal distribution of these genes?
But having these genes doesn't necessarily mean you'll be violent, just like having the gene that causes schizophrenia doesn't necessarily mean you'll have schizophrenia. Though again, blacks are nearly 3x more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia.
The truth is, we have it in our power to find exactly the proportion of the population of every race with all of these deleterious genes. They can even do MRI studies of the brain and predict your IQ. But we won't, not because we can't, but because it would be unethical.
The truth is, no one wants to know. You don't want to know. And what good would come out of it?
African-Americans are 1/4th white on average.
They do a number of things, and we don't know what all they do. I know one of the neanderthal genes also increases your risk of depression. And they'll continue to find out more as time goes on.
They agree that race is a social-construct, and it is. Race is a spectrum, like the colors of the rainbow. We know the colors of the rainbow, Roy G Biv, and they seem obvious to us as separate and definable colors, but if you look at the range of visible light, it is a gradient. As the wavelength falls, the color slowly transitions from red to orange to yellow to green. At what wavelength does red stop being red and become orange? And at what wavelength does orange stop being orange and become yellow?
And if orange is merely a mix of red and yellow, does that mean red and yellow don't exist? That everything is orange? Colors are another social-construct.
What is an immigrant country? Why does immigration exist? And what is a country? Everything in life is arbitrary, but everything is rational. Immigration is rational, opposition to immigration is rational. Racism is rational, antiracism is rational. These are value judgements.
Then it isn't love. Love is not something you choose, it is just something you feel. And sometimes you feel it even when you don't want to, even when you're trying not to. The question is, why does love exist? What is the point?
The reason for differences such as schizophrenia rate might be biased methodology:
No, I don't believe in significant differences between the races based on genes.
If African-Americans are 1/4 white, the consequences are probably mostly social, like the slight rejection of light brown people by both whites and blacks.
Neanderthal admixture can work in unexpected ways because homo sapiens was never meant to mix with neanderthals.
Yes, colors are our interpretation of wavelengths. Some animals see the same wavelengths rather differently.
I think that might also explain why some people don't like light brown people, they can't put those people into drawers, in other words they don't know which bias to apply.
Yes, it is love, everyone feels love differently. As I said, I am an older guy, the rational type. Not the obsessive teenager type whose brain gets short-circuited by hormones and neurotransmitters.
Like when you say you love pizza. While you think you do period, in reality you only love pizza when it tastes good. I.e. it is conditional.
And that's why I love any people who are compatible with my values, views etc. And why I don't love hardly anyone in my family. Nobody gets a kinship bonus from me. I am not a chimp.
That is a huge part of it.
I would add, exposure to those who insist upon being the stereotype. I'll pick on my own,. You will always have a few good ole boys in the crowd following the white trash check list.
Truck with oversized tires. Check
Truck with rebel flag in back window. Check
Truck with horn that plays dixie. Check
Can of chew in back pocket. Check
wife beater tank top. Check
missing and rotten teeth.. Check
Everything is them Ni@@ers fault. Check
Walking around with a gun on their hip. Check
I missed a few, but it is fairly close.
In the high school I went to, there were several kids like that, with a few differences though.
Growing up in a small town, there were only a handful of black kids, to us they were just other kids. Never gave any thought to color nor were they treated any differently. Never understood or witnessed racism.
Fast forward to joining the military and become part of a diverse work force, we all got along like brothers. It's when we would venture out to certain areas where the culture was quite different and it was at that time where I started seeing why people perhaps had hate in their blood towards a certain demographic. That said, groups unfortunately get stereotyped rather than holding individuals accountable for their actions. It never changed the way I personally felt about anyone, but I always hear that racism is taught, whereas I can easily see how it is also based on experience.
There is no place for racism in this day and age and living in a small town again, we don't see any of it.
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