06-09-2020, 03:07 PM
(06-08-2020, 11:38 PM)Mickey123 Wrote: What exactly do you think will change regarding racism?
Blacks and Mexicans are every bit as racist as whites, and the same goes for Indians (from India) and any other racial group you want to point to. Japanese and Koreans within their own countries are extremely racist, by U.S. standards.
If you have some method by which American whites will suddenly cease all racist thoughts and feelings, you will have to explain how to get it to work on all the other races of the world as well. If your theories of the future rely on humanity suddenly experiencing a profound shift and entering a new utopian state where everyone views outsiders just the same as they do people like themselves, you are in for a letdown. Because nothing I'm saying has anything to do with conservatives, it is simply human nature to see people from other groups differently than those from their own group, whatever that group might be.
You're right. Tribal identity is inherent at this point. It was built-in through natural selection to protect us when we needed it in the era of precivilization. So yes, it takes some effort to deprogram something that intrinsic to who we are. But then, that's what civilization is all about, isn't it? It won't be easy; It certainly hasn't been up to this point. The 'others' of past eras have been validated as part of the tribe, so it's doable.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.