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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (25 children)

Meh. Dad nailed it. "Son, we're not the best race, we're the most violent."

Been thinking on that for 30 years. Still rings true.

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (16 children)

The lesson was supposed to be "Son, races aren't actually a thing, they're a categorical method of sorting people into groups based on variable forms of bigotry. Where one race begins and another ends is as arbitrary as the lines we draw in the sand."

Not turning the white supremacy around into some kind of self-hating racism. That makes about as much sense as the white supremacy. And progresses the human race about as far.

[–] gens@programming.dev -3 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Denying diferencess actually regresses the human race. What should be thought is that personal and cultural differences have much bigger influence over behaviour then biological ones. And that humans have this thing called a brain, whos internal wiring can be changed to different levels of being an asshole.

If you don't accept the basic thing, you won't understand the advanced one.

[–] null@lemmy.nullspace.lol 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Who said anything about "denying differences"?

[–] gens@programming.dev -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"races arn't actually a thing"

[–] null@lemmy.nullspace.lol 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Race isn't the only thing that differentiates people...

[–] CybranM@feddit.nu 1 points 4 months ago

Some people seem to base their entire personality on their race and/or sexuality.

[–] gens@programming.dev -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Hence the rest of what I said. But yea, being right is more important then.. anything.

I guess saying things like "asians have lower lactose tolerance" is also racist, even though I am also lactose intolerant.

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