I would posit that we are everyone racists. We are either recovering, deliberately practicing, ingorantly practicing, or in denial and practicing.
I suggest that once upon a time, when a member of our family/clan/village saw someone comming through the woods from another family/clan/village, it was probably to kill the men and children, take the 'goods' and the 'wimmin folk'. Other 'families', considering various genetic differences, looked different. Not like 'us'. I posit that there is 'hard wiring' in us all that when we see someone that looks 'different' then we do, little red lights go on, adrenaline might be pumped, etc... In other words, an attavistic survival instinct. No longer of realistic use, like the appendix that is no longer necessary to process pterodactyl liver... *__-
So, if 'civilized', we deliberately squash this particular (animal nature) 'survival instinct' that is no longer validly necessary whenever it rears it's ugly head, or we allow it 'play' in our lives.
I personally have never found any person, living or dead, who did not have the raw ingredients of a drooling, red-eyed, knuckle dragging racist in his very 'chemistry'.
What do you think?
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I suggest that once upon a time, when a member of our family/clan/village saw someone comming through the woods from another family/clan/village, it was probably to kill the men and children, take the 'goods' and the 'wimmin folk'. Other 'families', considering various genetic differences, looked different. Not like 'us'. I posit that there is 'hard wiring' in us all that when we see someone that looks 'different' then we do, little red lights go on, adrenaline might be pumped, etc... In other words, an attavistic survival instinct. No longer of realistic use, like the appendix that is no longer necessary to process pterodactyl liver... *__-
So, if 'civilized', we deliberately squash this particular (animal nature) 'survival instinct' that is no longer validly necessary whenever it rears it's ugly head, or we allow it 'play' in our lives.
I personally have never found any person, living or dead, who did not have the raw ingredients of a drooling, red-eyed, knuckle dragging racist in his very 'chemistry'.
What do you think?
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