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Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by rpdillon on Friday September 12, 2025 @10:30AM (#45222557)
It's really interesting to me that you seem to assume that non-racism is the default state, and that humans have to be taught to be racist.

Based on what I've seen in the world looking across all the countries I am familiar with, including the US, I have to say I think the opposite is true.

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Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by komali2 on Friday September 12, 2025 @10:46AM (#45222719)
Anyone with experience teaching children could tell you that racism is taught. It's just not baked in for kids.

However it's also not a very interesting question imo. You will never "reset" a generation from any aspect of culture, and now that we're in the global information age it's triply impossible. We don't need to fool around with naturalist fallacy - it's enough to say that racism is bad and we should get rid of it.

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Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by rpdillon on Saturday September 13, 2025 @12:04PM (#45233166)
I have experience teaching children. They typically don't experience the scarcity that leads to fear and tribalism among adults. Tribalism doesn't have to be taught.
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Re:The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitco... by komali2 on Saturday September 13, 2025 @04:13PM (#45234967)
Well luckily we are post scarcity!
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