@yo-its-me saidVery small penisses, I think.
I was wondering why anyone is actually racist.
Do you know? Seriously.
Is it a lack of self identity?
Lack of self worth?
It's got to be a lack of something.
@yo-its-me saidThere could be many reasons and not only to races but to people being different from you: culture, tradition, fear etc. Protectionism. And, as you say, low self-esteem.
I was wondering why anyone is actually racist.
Do you know? Seriously.
Is it a lack of self identity?
Lack of self worth?
It's got to be a lack of something.
@shavixmir saidSo women are more racist than men?
Very small penisses, I think.
Sounds like a version of the Electra complex.
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@yo-its-me saidIn seriousness, I think it is an evolutionary/survival base instinct to be fearful, wary, distrusting of people of different tribes.
I was wondering why anyone is actually racist.
Do you know? Seriously.
Is it a lack of self identity?
Lack of self worth?
It's got to be a lack of something.
It was probably a useful trait thousands of years ago when warring tribes attacked each other and stole their resources.
Just my theory of where its root comes from.
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@divegeester saidI can only testify to the real jingoism between football fans, I am happy to see any north eastern team do well but many fans of the boro hate sunderland & newcastle fans and visa versa they even organise punch ups between each other.
In seriousness, I think it is an evolutionary/survival base instinct to be fearful, wary, distrusting of people of different tribes.
It was probably a useful trait thousands of years ago when warring tribes attacked each other and stole their resources.
Just my theory of where its root comes from.
@badradger saidFootballs fans generally are derided the world over because of their idiotic abusive and sometimes violent behaviour.
I can only testify to the real jingoism between football fans, I am happy to see any north eastern team do well but many fans of the boro hate sunderland & newcastle fans and visa versa they even organise punch ups between each other.
We often see the same behaviour from both sides of various arguments in here. The forum hooligans who hurl abuse because the other person holds a different political view.
Tribalism is part of our evolutionary heritage as a species and it is not easily discarded. It takes effort in self reflection and the ability to take the third party perspective.
Some, many, Republicans are at this moment utterly in contempt of the Democrats who are the other tribe. They see them as stealing their land, their resources and their freedoms. It’s the same energy as racism.
Racism is the same negative energy channelled at people because of their skin colour. But it’s not just skin colour which drives inter-tribal hatred it’s also, different culture, religion, politics, ideological political stances (e.g. Brexit), gender, etc.
Different “isms” but it’s all the same hate energy.
It’s just that racism which gets the most column inches.
And we are all guilty of it to some extent.
@divegeester saidThis is exactly correct. Nicely done on a Monday.
In seriousness, I think it is an evolutionary/survival base instinct to be fearful, wary, distrusting of people of different tribes.
It was probably a useful trait thousands of years ago when warring tribes attacked each other and stole their resources.
Just my theory of where its root comes from.
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I'm 68 and was born in the deep south, USA.
I grew up in a racist era, a racist town, and a racist family.
The racism was always there under the surface, but it might not show up everyday. The area was segregated as were the schools. Everyone knew that 'DewBerry' was the Black section and Fort Oglethorpe was for Whites. The first time I sat in a school classroom with a Black person was my freshman year in college.
So where did the racism come from? Tradition and fear.
Tradition, because this is what was passed down from at least Civil War times. The area is home to Chickamauga National Park the largest military battlefield in the US. A place of beauty and history, but in some ways a testimony to the racism that was a root cause of the Civil War. And tradition at the family level kept the racism alive. My great-grandfather was a dirt farmer who lived in a wooden cabin on a dirt road. He was racist. As the 1960's started, he would rant about the 'niggers' and 'coons' protesting. My grandfather followed that tradition as did my father. It was rarely overt, but at any family gathering there would be talk and whispers.
Fear is the other reason. Then Blacks and Whites never mingled or spoke to each other. That made it easy to look at Blacks with suspicion because it wasn't individuals, but a group of people that didn't look like you. Again the start of the 1960's civil rights protests put fear in people's heart. That fear can still be flamed today as Donald Trump has shown.