> Are racism, misogyny, and superstition useful or useless? Obviously, they're useless and counter-productive. There's no rational reason to think that there

> Are racism, misogyny, and superstition useful or useless? Obviously, they're useless and counter-productive. There's no rational reason to think that there is a significant difference between people with different skin/eye/hair colour or between genders, but it's obviously a simplistic tribal belief. What we end up getting is a huge amount of wasted talent because of tribal politics - imagine how many Einstein-like intellects have died in poverty with no access to education. It seems to me that people use racism and misogyny to help them stockpile wealth which is a big detriment to society - rather than working together, we have people working against other people. Even the idea of "races" is itself flawed and has no meaningful basis apart from "they look different".