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Learning anything about 20th century United States (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by to c/historymemes@piefed.social
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Not that other countries don't have racism, but American sheer dedication to it is impressive

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[–] [S] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I've seen some quite intelligent people being racist.
Imo the underlying cause of it is what in machine learning is known as Overfitting - pattern recognition amped up to the level it becomes incorrect

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I think a better explaination is simple in-group out-group behaviors. Humans have a tendency to separate themselves into in-groups (us) and out-groups (them). And the most obvious differentiation between people is the way they look. So peoples brains made a consensus that "people who look like this are the in group, and everyone else is the out group". And the in-group gets trust and preferential treatment, while the out-group is feared and excluded. Once the groups are defined, explainations about intelligence or aggression or moral character are applied post-hoc to explain why the outgroup is excluded

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    That sounds more like where stereotypes come from.

    Sure, racism is a form of stereotype, but amped up to 11.

    Only morons allow such stupid thinking to hit 11.

    and yes, some "smart" people are absolute morons. "book smart" is a saying for a reason.

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