[ExI] Protest

[William Flynn Wallace]

Can we agree that for a long time humans existed as tribes?  Good.  Then
you have tribalism - your tribe is right about everything.  The neighboring
tribe isd a bunch of robbers and rapists etc.  A person with different
clothes, face paint etc. was one to fear.

This gave rise to xenophobia - in the genes I assume.  So humans
discriminate against anyone different, just like the hens pecking to death
a chick who looks malformed.

Not like us - that's the motto.  It can be skin color or just anything.
And we still do it-  by race, by religion, by nationality and so on.  All
the way back.  A million years?

Fear is our most important emotion.  It keeps us alive.  It goes back to
the beginning.

bill w

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 9:42 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Jun 12, 2020, at 6:45 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> Racism has been cutting lives short for over a century.  adrian
>
> How about ever since different races appeared?  I keep saying that racism,
> sexism and some other isms are perfectly normal; expected.  It would be
> astonishing if they weren't bases for discrimination (not prejudice - we in
> the South know blacks quite well and are not prejudiced.  Discriminatory,
> of course.)
>
> bill w
>
>
> Not really. If you go back far enough, yeah, people do discriminate, but
> it’s along different lines. For instance, recall the piece I sent citing
> Bacon’s Rebellion. That was mostly a class rebellion but the authorities
> managed to drive a wedge between lower class Whites and Blacks. This meant
> that before the rebellion Blacks and Whites were working together against
> the upper class.
>
> Of course, if meant when modern racial classifications took root, okay,
> but those were fairly recent. They start in the modern period and
> particularly pick up steam in the late 18th century. They don’t go back to
> prehistory or even ancient times.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
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>
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