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How about just feeling good for being a human? Tribalism is not a virtue.

• powertower 13y ago
  Ideally? Sure, but... The human condition is complicated, and the human brain is a pattern matching and association machine. Humans have been identifying and separating themselves by color/race since the beginning of time, even before we could talk. It is the first category... before rich/poor, beautiful/ugly, young/old, etc. It's almost primial. The context to what I wrote was in relation to the current "white privilege" PC bullshit that has been indoctrinated into our collective. Nothing more.
  • happyrock 13y ago
    Correct. Race and ethnicity represent real human attributes that are immediately discernable, understood instinctively by everybody, and have a degree of predictive value, and always have. It's completely asinine to pretend that race doesn't exist, or to make pedantic arguments along the line of "genetic similarity" of human beings. Human behaviour is not some geneticist researcher's data set.
  • ekm2 13y ago
    >Humans have been identifying and separating themselves by color/race since the beginning of time, even before we could talk. It is the first category... before rich/poor, beautiful/ugly, young/old, etc. It's almost primial. How exactly does proving that something has always existed also show that it is right?
    • powertower 13y ago
      Does it really have to fit in the right/wrong classification? Can't it just be an evolutionary survival mechanism?... One of the things that primarily is designed to help people come together and stay away from danger. I'd imagine at the core of it there is a neural network (that you're born with) that categorizes things into - "like me" - "not like me". In of itself, it's not something that's right/wrong in a moral sense, but how it's further consciously used can be.
• PommeDeTerre 13y ago
  How exactly is that not also a form of tribalism? You're just breaking it down into human versus non-human groupings ("tribes", if you will).