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I will never understand how you can hate another person just because of the color of their skin
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Anonymous 6w

“jarvis, im low on yakkarma”

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Anonymous 6w

It’s primarily a flaw in how our brains work. We make associations based on how we are raised and powerful subjective experiences, not reason or moral truth. Thus if a person is taught something reprehensible by someone in what they consider authority, or they feel an emotional response to something, they are likely to draw a conclusion based upon that experience.

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Anonymous 6w

#1 is right, people hate others because of generalizations of how people with a certain skin color act

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Anonymous 6w

Its easy. See, there are people who have skin a different color than yours, when you notice these people, direct your subconscious hate in their general direction.

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Anonymous 6w

Ain’t no body hate someone bc of their skin you moron

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 6w

You clearly never left your crib.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6w

Is that the reason I haven’t been robbed by a colored?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 6w

“A colored”? 🤢 I hope you’re made to swallow your teeth.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 6w

Clearly you’re the type of dipshit who hates people because of their skin.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 6w

You caught me 😔

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 6w

#1 is not right 😭 there are definitely people who are racist purely because that person doesn't look like them. not to mention did you see #1's replies? do not let that guy think he's right

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 6w

no thank you, instead maybe people should learn to deal with things in a healthy way

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 6w

I promise you nobody is racist because of what someone “looks like” it’s all about how they act. Look I live in the south I know, trust me

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 6w

and i live in the south too tf?? we can play this game. i literally have interacted with people who are racist purely because they don't like shit that isn't like them and doesn't look like them.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 6w

not to mention you're defending a mf who said "a colored" like what the hell are you on rn 😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 6w

Mhm I’m sure. All the reasons people don’t like black people down here is because many of them act ghetto and commit crimes. At least 60-70% of the ones where I live are like that. A fair generalization

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 6w

So it’s my fault 80 percent of my interactions with black people are negative?

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 6w

It’s called survival instincts

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 6w

To a point yes. But those instincts can lead us to do what are objectively very stupid things. For example, there have been thousands of excess deaths in the United States after 9/11. Not from anything related to the attacks themselves, from automobile accidents. Because 9/11 was such a major emotional event it caused many people to develop an aversion to flying. And because flying is many times safer than driving, many of those people have since been killed or injured in car crashes.

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 6w

The survival instinct is extremely primordial, this extremely simple. “Ungabunga see Goosh get eaten by tiger when he go in cave, so Ungabunga avoid cave.” It’s actually older than that, but you get the idea. It doesn’t account for things like advanced knowledge of the causes of things, or any kind of moral system. It’s just how the first life forms which developed brains managed to survive.

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 6w

Sure, but if most of the crimes in my community are committed by a certain type of person, am I wrong to avoid them?

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 6w

No. So long as you wouldn’t avoid someone from another community who happened to look like them. It’s not racist to identify cultural problems within a community, it’s racist to generalize to an entire 7.8 billion people based on those problems.

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 6w

But what if all of the people who look like this have a higher crime rate throughout the whole country?

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 6w

Throughout the whole world*

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 6w

Causation fallacy. Black people commit more crime =\= black people are inherently criminals. There is a casual element which you’re ignoring, namely that black Americans tend to live in areas where a negative culture is present. A white guy from O block is just as likely to be a criminal as a black guy. A black guy from Nantucket is just as likely to be a straight laced financial advisor as a white guy.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 6w

Once again the same fallacy. Dark skin is an adaptation to solar radiation levels, areas with high solar radiation levels tend to be… hot. And hot areas are more difficult to build effective civilizations in because there is increased pressure from disease. Africa also happens to have shit geography. Which led to limited civilization, which led to conflict, which restricted civilization even more. Nothing to do with the genetics of the inhabitants.

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 6w

Disease etc. I ran out of room, but the point stands, it’s hard to build in places like the Congo or Sahara. Much easier on the plains of Central Europe or china.

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 6w

I didn’t say inherently, or else it would be 100%. But the facts say that 70% of the black people in my community and communities like mine are bad news. And of course there’s white people with shit culture as well, I try to avoid them too. But somehow I’m racist for pointing out the clear pattern in who I should be wary of?

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 6w

As I said. In that local case it is not racism to be aware of the cultural differences. That being said would you see this guy and think the same thing?

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 6w

… no? But like I said, the people who live where I live do not look like Thomas sowell. Most people would say I’m racist for assuming a black person who dresses more “hood” is dangerous to be around. Nobody thinks Thomas sowell is dangerous to be around

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 6w

So you’re familiar with Dr Sowell’s work. Excellent, the answer to the question of racism should be clear. Nothing to do with race, everything to do with culture (and economics.)

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 6w

Ok look clearly you agree there’s a problem. Great. We agree. I was talking more about the kind of people who would say me judging anyone’s culture as violent or dangerous or unproductive is bad and racist. You don’t agree with that, so seems like we do agree

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