Subj : Re: race
To : Boraxman
From : jimmylogan
Date : Tue May 27 2025 08:29 am
-=> Boraxman wrote to jimmylogan <=-
Bo> The "race is just a pigment of your imagination" was designed to
Bo> changes peoples attitudes, but it was the wrong approach. You can't
Bo> lie to people to change their attitudes, because they'll realise the
Bo> lie, and discard the lesson that accompanied the lie.
Yep - because men are evil at heart. People WANT to be racists,
because it's easier.
Bo> Some argue that when we all become "mixed" then this won't be an
Bo> issue, but that is a horrendous idea, and I think has a deeper,
Bo> underlying evil motivation behind it.
Why horrendous?
Technically we are all from the same group of ancestors anyway.
Adam and Eve, specifically, but even after that, the eight on
the ark spawned the repopulation.
Bo> You cannot then argue it does not exist, when people use racial
Bo> signifiers ROUTINELY and SUCCESSFULLY to categorise people.
ji> My point is that they should NOT do this. People should be
ji> identified by how they ARE and not how they LOOK.
Bo> Now it is incorrect to attribute a specific racial stereotype to an
Bo> individual, if that is what you mean. However you obviously can tell
Bo> peoples ancestry from sight alone. You'd know I'm European, and not
Bo> Asian or African or Australian Aboriginal by looking at me.
Ancestral - yes - but I look more white than anything, so should
I be blamed for slavery in the distant past? Should a 'black'
person be blamed for crime in another city?
These are stereotypes and have nothing to do with the
individual.
To be blunt, I was NOT raised this way. I was raised by a VERY
biggoted man - my father. In the south, it was normal. Thankfully
I have made my own decisions as I grew up and realized this was
NOT the proper way to think or act.
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