Comment on Do you also feel cringe about people making such a big deal about ethnicity?
Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 1 week agoSome people just have hate in their hearts and they will use any physical differences to lump people together.
Being skeptical of people looking different from you used to serve a purpose in our history. It no longer does but the feature can still be found in our biology. It’s not that some “just are hateful people” - it’s that they’re human.
pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
The follow up question then is, how do we deal with that as a species? If we assume that humans have tribalistic tendencies, I don’t want to say inherent, but, deeply rooted? Can education and external pressure make it go away? Can we direct it into something else? It seems like sports teams with their fans is an outlet at least preferable to war, for example.