A really interesting data point on racism, in general, which I learned from Sapolsky (via Sean Carroll) is that using fMRI scans, it appears that most adult hum

A really interesting data point on racism, in general, which I learned from Sapolsky (via Sean Carroll) is that using fMRI scans, it appears that most adult humans have a racist friend/foe type response when viewing photos showing "the other." However, this visual response can be hacked with something as silly as the person in the image wearing a baseball cap from "our team." So, clearly racism is a really crappy heuristic. Learning this made me feel happy and sad at the same time... but I think mostly happy, because if that ugliness can be hacked so easily, then it must truly be nonsense. https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2021/02/15/134-robert-sapolsky-on-why-we-behave-the-way-we-do/ https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2021/02/15/134-...