Racism is the failure of an individual to use the frontal lobes to to properly control the stress signals from the amygdala when different races interact. And it effects all races. None are immune. The amygdala is hardwired for instincts and emotions as part of our genetic code. Humans have frontal lobes for analytical thought. The frontal lobes operate slowly. taking seconds, minutes or even years to analyze. For tens of millions of years mankind has developed instincts to oppose anyone who is different. One of the best ways to detect a threat is through looks/behaviors/culture. It may take quite some time to deprogram this instinct. Our frontal lobes prevent the vast majority of us from attacking people that we perceive as different. Over time we train our brain to do this. When we have a failure in the frontal lobes to properly analyze people and situations, we have racism.
Before you go after me. I wasn’t smart enough to come up with this. I borrowed it and abbreviated it from somebody who is.
Honestly? It sounds like some lazy-ass racist trying to make excuses for their own ignorance…
The racist: “Stop you’re whining, you were never actually a slave, nor your parents… stop blaming your problems on society and pull yourself up by your bootstraps.”
Also the racist: “You really can’t blame me for thinking like this because man has been conditioned to think this way for thousands of years”.
For whatever it’s worth, a big part of the reason the GOP will never make headway with minority populations on their current path is precisely for promoting ■■■■like this…
Have you ever been a white person living in a country where you are the minority? I have. And I can assure you racism isn’t something that is only practiced by white people in America. And I seriously doubt the idea in the OP was written by a racist. Do you think racists believe they are racist because they aren’t thinking clearly.
Mankind was working together and building a tower to the heavens, and this scared God who scattered mankind to the four winds and changed their language so people couldn’t communicate with each other.
If we could work together, we could accomplish great things. God doesn’t want that.
And thus the Tower of Babel and by extension, racism.
Altair, I’ll just make this simple… seen enough of your posts to understand quite clearly that you and I have a very different understanding of the term logic.
Now, it seems you want to say something about or to me… don’t hide behind a post, I’m not a flagger. Just say it…
And? Maybe not, though not entirely sure where you’re going with this… but they are certainly impressionable and tend to follow the lead of their parents.
