• @ThatWeirdGuy1001
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      02 months ago

      Fear is one bad incident away from hate.

      I’m not disagreeing that racism is wrong. It’s abhorrent and a gleaming example of the fact our species hasn’t evolved outside of technology.

      But it’s ridiculously easy to be racist. It’s so fuckin easy it’s crazy. It’s like getting addicted to drugs. One instance is all it could take. One bad experience.

      This is coming from someone who used to be racist. Because my first experience with a black person as a child was horrible. A grown ass man screaming at a child due to a misunderstanding but I was white so I had to be a racist.

      It took a long time to get over that and realize why it happened but in between all I could think was black people are mean bastards because they think all white people are racist.

      • @Olgratin_Magmatoe
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        32 months ago

        Fear is one bad incident away from hate.

        Sure. But that doesn’t mean it is a logical from an evolutionary standpoint.

        It took a long time to get over that and realize why it happened but in between all I could think was black people are mean bastards because they think all white people are racist.

        I am glad you got past that.

        • @ThatWeirdGuy1001
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          12 months ago

          Sure. But that doesn’t mean it is a logical from an evolutionary standpoint.

          That’s exactly what it means.

          If you’re already terrified of something and then something bad happens because of that something it’s going to create resentment and therefore hatred.

          Fear and hate follow the same vein. It’s easy to hate what you fear simply because it makes you afraid.