Why A World Without Racism Is A World That Would Cease To Exist

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History isn’t only a thing of right and wrong, but it serves as evidence of what did work and what didn’t. What we can learn and we cannot and what we believe is changeable and what is constant. There are things that worked in the past but don’t work today and vice versa.

In the book “Social Dominance” by Sidaneous and Prato, they state that much of racism comes from the subconscious desire among people in a position of power to collude with others in a position of power against the members of low power groups. This works to benefit the stronger groups by allowing them to remain as the dominant social groups and linger over the privileges that it brings. Similar behavior can be found in primate troops.

Racism is prejudice and prejudice is bias. Bias is learned. You can definitely unlearn bias which means you can unlearn racism. But to do such, it takes an incredible amount of conscious effort. One reason this can be true is that humans by nature fear the unknown, the uncertain, and the different.

Evolved traits especially ingroup bias are the essential explanations for racism — this is the IMO the scientific consensus.

Disclaimer: This doesn’t mean race and thus racism in any manifestation is necessarily natural or inevitable. They’re not natural if that means…