Insights on racism.

[Majed]

To understand racism, one must become racist.
In this era, people do not truly understand racism — they simply think it's stupid, without doing the existential and epistemic work of becoming racist, even momentarily, to understand how the world looks from a racist point of view.

People have started world wars and committed genocides in the name of racism — and you really think it's just stupidity? you must take it more seriously.

Here is the genius of God:
Reality can be distorted in an infinite number of ways.
One of those ways is racism.
To be racist is to live in a reality different from the non-racist one.

An infinity of delusions —
this is what the mind of God is up to:
endless ways of perceiving reality.

That is the beauty of reality, of God!

[Nemra]

In this era, people are still racists.

18 minutes ago, Majed said:

People have started world wars and committed genocides in the name of racism — and you really think it's just stupidity? you must take it more seriously.

Yes. They are seriously stupid.

One has to become non-racist to understand that.

[Princess Arabia]

35 minutes ago, Majed said:

To understand racism, one must become racist.

Did you become the forum to understand how to use it. 

 

38 minutes ago, Majed said:

they simply think it's stupid, without doing the existential and epistemic work of becoming racist

38 minutes ago, Majed said:

 

I'm sure the racist down the street didn't need to do existential and epistemic work to become racist.

 

40 minutes ago, Majed said:

People have started world wars and committed genocides in the name of racism — and you really think it's just stupidity? you must take it more seriously.

Seeing something as being stupid doesn't mean one doesn't take it seriously; maybe seriously stupid.

 

42 minutes ago, Majed said:

That is the beauty of reality, of God!

 God can also be stupidly racist.

[Nivsch]

Racism stems mostly from unfamiliarity and fear. It is a scale and everyone has a little bit of it. This is a natural survival mechanism the brain operates to ensure extra safety from things it doesn't know well enough.

For example, if an Italian women behave to me badly during my visit in her country, there is a high chance I will become "racist" towards Italian women and extrapolate this behaviour on Italians in general.

When it becomes a problem? When you act upon this mechanism to harm others, or when you keep acting it again and again despite contradcting evidences, and it makes you stubornly blind.

If someone is get harmed by psychiatric medications, it will develop a very negative and feeling of demonization towards psychiatrists. Is that racism? Maybe not the classic definition, but essentially this is it. This is the exact same mechanism. So is it bad? Not necessarily at all. It depends on the context and the specific situation.

Keep in mind that demonizing the racist, will make you immediately to become more like him, and when it happens, be compasionate to yourself and to him and try to understand his fears.

Edited April 29 by Nivsch

[Joshe]

Not sure if you're trolling Leo or just want to be like him, but this sounds exactly like something he'd say, but probably not about racism. 

My guess is trolling. If so, I have to admit, it's pretty funny. lol

Every now and then you gotta add in a "Ta daaa!" at the end — but don't overdo it or it just seems weird. 

Edited April 29 by Joshe

[Princess Arabia]

1 hour ago, Nivsch said:

Racism stems mostly from unfamiliarity and fear. It is a scale and everyone has a little bit of it. This is a natural survival mechanism the brain operates to ensure extra safety from things it doesn't know well enough.

For example, if an Italian women behave to me badly during my visit in her country, there is a high chance I will become "racist" towards Italian women and extrapolate this behaviour on Italians in general.

When it becomes a problem? When you act upon this mechanism to harm others, or when you keep acting it again and again despite contradcting evidences, and it makes you stubornly blind.

If someone is get hurmed by psychiatric medications, it will develop a very negative and feeling of demonization towards psychiatrists. Is that racism? Maybe not the classic definition, but essentially this is it. This is the exact same mechanism. So it is bad? Not necessarily at all. It depends on the context and the specific situation.

Keep in mind that demonizing the racist, will make you immediately to become more like him, and when it happens, be compasionate to yourself and to him and try to understand his fears.

What you have described, imo, is biases not racism. A bias now towards Italians and Psychiatrists. By definition, racism is the belief that a race is superior to another not the likes or dislikes of it.

[Nivsch]

22 minutes ago, Princess Arabia said:

What you have described, imo, is biases not racism. A bias now towards Italians and Psychiatrists

This is the same thing only called differently and differs in the degree.

22 minutes ago, Princess Arabia said:

racism is the belief that a race is superior to another not the likes or dislikes of it.

When you like something or someone more he is superior in your eyes. It is just that classic racism generalizes and demonizes too grossly and too broadly.

Edited April 29 by Nivsch

[Yimpa]

I was touched by a Black person today, after I had shown him Love.

I touched him back without hestitation.

[Princess Arabia]

39 minutes ago, Nivsch said:

This is the same thing only called differently and differs in the degree.

When you like something or someone more he is superior in your eyes. It is just that classic racism generalizes and demonizes too grossly and too broadly.

Don't agree but we're entitled to our differences of opinions. When I substitute different things, words or circumstances in each case, I can't seem to find the similarities.

Example, if I have a bias of preferring oranges to apples, it doesn't mean I don't like apples, it just means I prefer oranges. If I prefer black men to white men because of a bias towards white men because of an experience I had, it doesn't mean I dislike white men or think black men are superior to white men. I could even think white men are superior but dislike them for that and that's my bias to why I prefer black men. One cannot be racist towards an orange or an apple but they can a bias towards either. Racism only applies to race and that's why I am showing the differences. An Italian woman doing something to make you dislike Italian women on a whole, or even substituting white for Italian, doesn't make one a racist but biased because that's not comparing another race to another. If there were only Italians that existed in the whole world, no one could be racist whatsoever but they could still have biases and preferences. So, to me they are not the same thing.

[Rafael Thundercat]

Check this one on HBO

Time to honor the history. Mainly because we have a clown that think that Columbus was injusticed