• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Racism will never die as we evolved to be tribal. Best we can do as a society is make it unacceptable. Which was happening when I grew up in 70s/80s America. Now we’ve backtracked and gone all-in with dog whistles.

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      6 hours ago

      That’s not true. Sure, we have tribalism, but there’s no reason it has to be about race. It could be about religion, politics, country of origin, and countless other things

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        5 hours ago

        In reality, it’s not purely about race. Most racism isn’t between groups that are culturally identical, it is between groups with significant cultural differences. Race is just the most obvious attribute used to identify the other group.

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            24 minutes ago

            Bring any nuance to a charged topic and the ones who think in black and white terms will come to misinterpret what you said in the least charitable way.