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nolabels

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20. I think that word racism is somewhat of a loaded word and means differerent things......

Reply to KY_EnviroGuy (Reply #15)

Sun May 13, 2018, 12:06 PM

May 2018

to different people. We as humans are also probably the most adaptable species (short of microbes) to ever live on the planet.

I would agree that our DNA has a lot to do with it but it is that same DNA that makes us so adaptable in ways we are learning more about every day.

I think it would be hard to be succinct in any explanation in how and why we are here today with the hundreds of disciplines involved that it took to get us here where we are now.

Then finally getting back to the idea why people with authoritarian views always like to stifle education and the transfer of knowledge.

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Racism is not dying [View all] Soph0571 May 2018 OP

That's the way it works misanthrope May 2018 #1

We're born with various genetic dispositions to bias Hortensis May 2018 #2

I think fear of other is learned behavior, not genetic. Kurt V. May 2018 #4

You are correct. betsuni May 2018 #6

Kurt, I'm not an anthropologist but.. KY_EnviroGuy May 2018 #7

your thoughts are always appreciated. Kurt V. May 2018 #10

Well, one instructive thing we can look at is... KY_EnviroGuy May 2018 #11

Even better, all this has been and is being intensively Hortensis May 2018 #13

Yes, it will be interesting to watch. KY_EnviroGuy May 2018 #15

I think that word racism is somewhat of a loaded word and means differerent things...... nolabels May 2018 #20

Yes, racism and fear of someone outside our group are different issues... KY_EnviroGuy May 2018 #25

There is way to get back there in one sense, try a Paleo Diet nolabels May 2018 #31

My daughter, starting at age three, attended a Montessori preschool in a college town maddiemom May 2018 #8

You have to be right and wrong. For sure most people Hortensis May 2018 #12

Absolutely, there is much more to learn about Kurt V. May 2018 #19

Yes. I choose to believe that reducing all humanity to biochemical Hortensis May 2018 #21

yikes! Kurt V. May 2018 #22

That's sweet, thanks! My husband's out right now Hortensis May 2018 #23

You'te right Hortensis SCantiGOP May 2018 #5

Love talk of "triumph of morality and intellectual reasoning." Hortensis May 2018 #14

That's a great post Hortensis Uncle Joe May 2018 #16

I'll be satisfied with just white supremacy dying off at this point. MrScorpio May 2018 #3

Racism IS dying. It is just that it is excruciating that it is taking centuries to do so. Bernardo de La Paz May 2018 #9

What a nasty kid! MineralMan May 2018 #17

The Leon County Sheriff's Department is not filing any charges csziggy May 2018 #18

Challenges in his personal life made him do it dalton99a May 2018 #29

Racism is not dying. We have to intentionally kill it gollygee May 2018 #24

I would have learned racism from my father but I didn't elocs May 2018 #26

never did peps , always been here in the shadows , now borught out in the open by a idiiot prez AllaN01Bear May 2018 #27

I agree. It's not dying... OneGrassRoot May 2018 #28

It's not dying Runningdawg May 2018 #30