I can agree with that statement. So, does that mean one can blame their genes for their acts of racism? I would hope not, but I can see someone making that argument.
Bill Roh
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> Sodom wrote:
> >
> > It's not there there is a gene for "Racism" per say,
>
> No, that seems unlikely.
>
> > I think the idea would
> > be that obvious physical differences are the easiest for
> the mind to grapple
> > with in the "Us vs Them" war.
>
> And prior to the advent of language and culture, the ability to detect
> physical differences that one could see, feel, or smell (important) is
> likely to have been the ability reinforced and fine tuned by natural
> selection, so in a sense, it seems possible that UTism is an outgrowth
> of a kind of de facto racism.
>
> -KMO
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