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Everyone is racist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In…Oxytocin, the so-called love hormone, is really a us-vs-them amplifier.
https://time.com/49399/oxytocin-…
"A study done in the Netherlands showed that oxytocin increased the in-group favoritism of their nation while decreasing acceptance of members of other ethnicities and foreigners.[41] People also show more affection for their country's flag while remaining indifferent to other cultural objects when exposed to oxytocin."If evolution has given us a separate hormone with oxytocin-specific receptors, there must have been a good reason for it. Xenophobia had some beneficial function in the past when we lived in small tribes, but today it's an atavism -- an ancestral trait like vestigial tail, werewolf syndrome, wisdom teeth etc, except racism is not a throwback, but a full featured instinct.
The problem is that our biology is stubborn and racism will probably stick with us for many hundreds of years to come. There is no obvious negative selection where racists are filtered out from the gene pool.
Just realize it's part of your firmware and not part of your personality. Some people are able to ignore it (together with other firmware functions like fear of death, desire to supersede others etc), the remaining 90% are functional illiterates and don't have this level of reflection.
This is why I'm pessimistic about multiculturalism in general. Not because it's bad or immigrants are bad or whatever, but simply because humans in general, both immigrants and natives, are not mature enough to handle it.
Meanwhile, we aim to colonize Mars and other planets while still carrying these cave instincts. Chances are some religious group will wipe out half of humanity with some AI-engineered virus or a bucket of pure botox-grade neurotoxin thrown into the ocean
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- oxytocin is a bonding hormone released during childbirth. to attempt to equate it with a party drug using the loose "love" determination, is willfully ignorantimbecile
- Oxytocin is released whenever
https://www.pnas.org…drgs - It's interesting to think about the speed of progress of humanity vs the speed of evolutionary change and whether, at some point they will be in harmony...Morning_star
- ...We have been tribal for 10s if not 100s of thousands of years yet the speed that we embrace multicultural environments/cities far outstrips the ability...Morning_star
- ...of our biology to 'catch-up'. I wonder if nature will conflict with nurture at some point.Morning_star
- It's already conflicting. People have a need to be part of a community, contribute to it and feel like a valued member. All modern psychological problemsdrgs
- are a result of this need not being met.
http://haidut.me/?p=…drgs - My theory is that American youth is solving this by being part of "virtual" communities: crossfit, veganism, even gluten-free diets are an attemptdrgs
- to seek harbour with other like-minded peopledrgs
- QBNdrgs
- You can get a sense of belonging from anywhere. Using this to justify racism within yourself is fucking cringe, m8scarabin
- Where did you read that I justify racismdrgs
- It's not just about belonging. The tribal environment that influenced our evolution requires far more commitment and investment that contributing to an...Morning_star
- ...online forum or joining weight watchers. Racism doesn't seem to be the right word for whatever protection mechanisms we evolved.Morning_star
- You state several times that racism is instinctual or part of biology. That naturally sounds like you’re justifying its existence as coded in usmonospaced
- If racism is defined as belief that some races are superior, then I should not use that word. But no one uses this definition anymoredrgs
- I mean...
https://i.ibb.co/qnk…drgs - What's instinctual is that people who are similar tend to group together, ie. to favor your own race/gender/ethnicit...drgs
- Humans are still dark and archaic. I agree with you that racism is bad, we can get together and write a manifest "Racism is bad". What does it change exactly?drgs
- “It feels good to be racist so it must be okay”scarabin
- Favoring familiarity is NOT the same as hating them or feeing superior. Preferring one’s own race is not disliking others.monospaced
- While we may have some instinct to band with like people, kin, it doesn’t automatically mean we inherently hate outsiders.monospaced
- Consider "favoring familiarity" in a hiring process at work...drgs
- In America in-group favoratism is racism, but I agree with you, in strict sense it probably isntdrgs
- Scab, listen here you little shit
"“It feels good to be racist so it must be okay”"
My post clearly says that racism is a relic of the past which humans mustdrgs - evolve out from. The part where racism feels good is all you.
I dont know what image you have of me to put words in my mouth, but I suspect youre projectingdrgs - your shadow selfdrgs
- You’ve painted a portrait of yourself upon this thread with a thousand little brushstrokes, matescarabin
- Regardless, i apologize. I’ve got bigot fatiguescarabin
- Americans don't allow themselves or others to discuss forbidden topics. Their defense is as follows: People who want to discuss racism are racists,drgs
- people who want to discuss transgenders are transphobic etc. Because don't ask questions which are forbidden.drgs