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[–] 62 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Racism, but here we are in 2025 it being more prevalent than ever.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Racism will never die as we evolved to be tribal. Best we can do as a society is make it unacceptable. Which was happening when I grew up in 70s/80s America. Now we've backtracked and gone all-in with dog whistles.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    That's not true. Sure, we have tribalism, but there's no reason it has to be about race. It could be about religion, politics, country of origin, and countless other things

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Sports. Watch the crowds in some European soccer or basketball matches and you'll see how we managed to keep tribalism alive and well, but (mostly) harmless.

    (You need stadiums that can handle tens of thousands of people bouncing on the stands for ninety minutes without collapsing, though.)

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    In reality, it's not purely about race. Most racism isn't between groups that are culturally identical, it is between groups with significant cultural differences. Race is just the most obvious attribute used to identify the other group.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Lol

    Speak of the devil and the ones equating skin color with culture will appear

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Bring any nuance to a charged topic and the ones who think in black and white terms will come to misinterpret what you said in the least charitable way.

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  • equating skin colour with culture

    Not equating. They said that people of an ethnicity are often also of a culture common among those of that ethnicity.

    I'm in Costa Rica, and people are likely to (correctly) assume that I'm a foreigner here because I'm white.

    It's not equating. It is, however, a way to tell what is likely.

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