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It is just logic...
I would never claim that...
Is that a joke? How do non-racists create racial problems?
Racists exist because they don't like other races and create issues do to this fact. If a nice family moves in next door, they are nice. If they are black or white, I could care less. If I can trust them to look after my dog when on vacation or report a burglar, then race is irrelevant. If a nice black couple moves in next to you, you see black and potential problems due to that, instead of potential problems do to personality clashes like politics or playing music too loud. Do you understand?
Racists create problems due to race... that is the only reason that there are race problems.
Unless it is a fact...
It could be any number of reasons. You want me to give examples as to how or why some people dislike others due to their skin colour?
Ok... it is because they are small minded and prejudicial idiots who base worth off of skin colour instead of the substance of the person, that's why.
Want something more PC? here you go...
Evolutionary theories about the origins of racism
Biologists John Tooby and Leda Cosmides were puzzled by the fact that race is one of the three characteristics most often used in brief descriptions of individuals (the others are age and sex). They reasoned that natural selection would not have favoured the evolution of an instinct for using race as a classification, because for most of human history, humans almost never encountered members of other races. Tooby and Cosmides hypothesized that modern people use race as a proxy (rough-and-ready indicator) for coalition membership, since a better-than-random guess about "which side" another person is on will be helpful if one does not actually know in advance.
Their colleague Robert Kurzban designed an experiment whose results appeared to support this hypothesis. Using the Memory confusion protocol, they presented subjects with pictures of individuals and sentences, allegedly spoken by these individuals, which presented two sides of a debate. The errors which the subjects made in recalling who said what indicated that they sometimes misattributed a statement to a speaker of the same race as the "correct" speaker, although they also sometimes misattributed a statement to a speaker "on the same side" as the "correct" speaker. In a second run of the experiment, the team also distinguished the "sides" in the debate by clothing of similar colors; and in this case the effect of racial similarity in causing mistakes almost vanished, being replaced by the color of their clothing. In other words, the first group of subjects, with no clues from clothing, used race as a visual guide to guessing who was on which side of the debate; the second group of subjects used the clothing color as their main visual clue, and the effect of race became very small. [53]
Some research suggests that ethnocentric thinking may have actually contributed to the development of cooperation. Political scientists Ross Hammond and Robert Axelrod created a computer simulation wherein virtual individuals were randomly assigned one of a variety of skin colors, and then one of a variety of trading strategies: be color-blind, favor those of your own color, or favor those of other colors. They found that the ethnocentric individuals clustered together, then grew until all the non-ethnocentric individuals were wiped out.[54]
Racism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Communist? WTF? I am on the opposite spectrum of being a communist, essentially... I'm just being a realist. I think that you are confusing people being mad at immigrants impacting financially that lead to issues like feelings of disenfranchised that lead to violence with race. There are nice black people and bad black people just as there are with white people and brown people and green people. You don't like them because of their skin colour, but that is on you.
I clearly do. I never said Islam was only a religion. I knew as I was tying it that you would take it that way. Islam is as cultural as Christianity... it is a code by which people live. Same with Hindus and Buddhists. The religion defines their culture. Differentiate please. The aspect here is not one of culture. The issue here is one of religion. We could live the same as Muslims, eat the same foods, all the cultural aspects of Islam, etc. and they would still want to kill us due to religious reasons since we do not subscribe to the same God. So I clearly understand this better than you...
Dude, you are being obtuse on purpose, aren't you. The one failing is the one that... well, you. You can't initiate it if nobody is in favour of it and if nobody votes for it. Your ideas fall before being introduced into the representative democracy... You say it yourself, if the basic principle operates in favour of most people being against it so it ain't gonna happen, then it ain't gonna happen, which you call... stupid? Interesting... Stupid is as Putsch says.
I am setting the pace...
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