Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study
by zozbot234 on Monday October 26, 2020 @07:04AM
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We may tend to prefer in-groups as humans, but there's no reason why one's "in-group" should be defined by race. Indeed the whole notion of 'race' itself is largely artificial, historically- and locally-contingent, and thus so is racism. If the claim was that as humans, we're all naturally driven to be more broadly biased and perhaps intolerant towards some others, that would be far more defensible.
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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study
by charlesu on Monday October 26, 2020 @07:34AM
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> We may tend to prefer in-groups as humans, but there's no reason why one's "in-group" should be defined by race.
I agree! There’s no reason in-groups should be defined by race...but, at least in the United States, it was quite literally legislated in law for centuries and formed the basis of a slave state and then segregation. So it seems like race has historically been one way we define in-groups and out-groups. Based on current events, I’d argue race is still pretty important to a lot of people. Otherwise our politics wouldn’t be...whatever you want to call them.
> Indeed the whole notion of 'race' itself is largely artificial, historically- and locally-contingent, and thus so is racism.
Race is socially constructed but it’s definitely real. Racism is also real.