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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I'm guessing their probable beliefs and actions in part based on their race. They're white, and facets of their physical appearance and their facial expressions indicate potential for aggressive and impulsive behavior. You learn to spot them when traveling through rural locales (I drive a lot).
I think assortative mating is creating a lot of white people in dire circumstances who look a lot alike. It's skin tone, posture, eyes, and a mixture of features that cause the reptile brain in my head to say, High chance of aggression, possible drug addict. Avoid. I'm not the only one who's registered this phenomenon going on in his head.
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I think you're 100% full of shit. The cues you're reading in these white people are all based on clothing, car, and location. If any of these people were wearing other clothes and you crossed their paths in the city, you wouldn't think twice about them. Skin tone, posture, eyes, features, assertive mating? Fuck outta here. In rural locations the people you've described have clothes and attitudes built to send a message, if you're reading one. The levels of garbage you're willing to create to have an argument are astonishing.
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
That's a distinction I think fixes the confusion. This was a lot of my problem with Adder's definition. When you add the power component to Racism, I think you necessarily grab its most pernicious element. Race prejudice is almost impossible to eradicate as people will always default to stereotypes on some level (Kahnemann can speak to that). Racism as a system in which a race is targeted and marginalized is curable.
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Yes. But it is maintained by the group of people that benefits from it through the constant denial (explicit and personal) that it exists! That's what we're talking about when we're talking about "white fragility." The term, like "privilege," is not meant to be aggressive. It's descriptive. White people don't want to face the inherent truth in those terms, so they transform it into an insult and shift all attention to their wounds at being labeled a racist.
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