Comment on Are we deprogramming empathy in the US?

6nk06@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wasn’t there segregation before the 70s? So it seems like a default state for USA since forever.

  “Hate thy neighbor skin color”

  …eji.org/…/how-segregation-survived.html

  www.britannica.com/event/Jim-Crow-law

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• harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You’re referring to the 1560s/70s, right?

  Seriously, though, stripping away empathy has always been a tactic throughout history used by the greedy and selfish to get their way.

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