>>124927744>Thinks racism is about greedy competition for goodies.Outside of Econ 101, are there actually real people who hate in terms of competition for economic resources? How many emotional reactions stem from a cost-benefit analysis?
Racism/prejudice comes from limited experience. If most of your salient experiences of people who look like [insert your choice here] are negative, then how can you help but know from your own experience that people who look like [ditto] are bad?
Racists dislike and distrust black people, for example, not because they see them as an economic threat, but because the news and online videos and their limited personal experience in school repeatedly show black people to be thuggish, violent, stupid, lazy, and unwilling to play by the same rules of society as the rest of society. They can't help but see black people as a threat to safety or a threat to getting things done, not as a threat to their socioeconomic status. The only economic threat is the chance of getting mugged for whatever's in their wallet.
But they'll be quick to add that they aren't racists, because they like their black coworker down the hall just fine. All that means is their coworker is a learned exception to their instinctive learned emotional reaction.
It does no good to fight racism if you waste all your energy attacking things that aren't the real cause. The solution isn't to spout political claptrap, but to ensure people have much more experience of each other in real life, instead of isolated experiences that are as impressionable as they are negative.
It's like people don't take this shit seriously or something.
