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@Lemming
If a person has a tribalistic bent for their family, or clan, or nation. It 'really doesn't matter if the other guy's smarter, or stronger, what matters to someone with such a bent, is whether their 'own people can survive, or better thrive. Defeat their enemies, even if superior.If we focus on 'groups, as worthy of interest, how is the racist wrong for focusing on his 'own group, as worthy of interest?The point I mean is, if different groups are recognized to exist, and helping one group will 'not help other groups, assuming one believes in a zero sum game.For example, the 'ratio of groups to one another, in a percentage, in a country.Well, if groups can be identified as being 'singular to themselves, one can assume their interests are as well.
It always begins with your own family, and then loosely spirals outward to your neighbors and people who you perceive to be "likely allies".
If one chooses to ignore race, and decide we'll all be interbred into a breed, then there's little problem.But if 'interests are recognized, races 'clarified. . . 'well.
Even in areas where people have nearly indistinguishable skin-tone variations (and even the same religion), OTHER "CATEGORIES" ARE INVENTED IN ORDER TO FACILITATE "DISCRIMINATION" OF "THE OTHER".
The shocking thing is that for some strange reason, "skin-tone" discrimination has been escalated to the highest-possible-crime, and other forms of discrimination have been arbitrarily tacked on, like "sexgender" and "ablebodiedness" and "religionandorcreed" among others, but other forms of discrimination have been ignored.
(IFF) YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE DISCRIMINATION A CRIME (THEN) ALL DISCRIMINATION SHOULD BE A CRIME
also,
"RACISM" IS A THOUGHT CRIME