Some hate, at least reactionary hate to circumstances, is inherent in humans, otherwise it wouldn’t be here.
Who taught us hate if not us?
Some hate, at least reactionary hate to circumstances, is inherent in humans, otherwise it wouldn’t be here.
Who taught us hate if not us?
shalafi@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Recharacterize hate and anger as fear, human behavior makes more sense.
Yeah, racism is taught, as OP’s talking about, but fear of the other, the other outside our tribe, is genetic.
People take that opinion to mean racism is natural. Nope. It’s not skin color, it’s “other”. It’s a big world now, too big for us to easily parse, so we try to break each other into manageable chunks we can understand, skin color is an easy shortcut.
For example; I’m a middle-aged, American white guy. I understand, and am far closer, to my black friend down the street than I am to any European, even one who looks exactly like me. My friend is in my tribe, my Monkeysphere, the European is not. Despite wildly different backgrounds, I share more in common with my friend than a random Spaniard. Does that make sense?