Comment on Donald Trump just shared an AI video to Truth Social depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys
belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 2 weeks agoRacism is a cancer that must be wiped out
Comment on Donald Trump just shared an AI video to Truth Social depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys
belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 2 weeks agoRacism is a cancer that must be wiped out
Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I agree but it won’t happen. It’s interwoven deep with Tribalism. And unfortunately Tribalism is interlinked with culture… The human species is fatally flawed. Perhaps our tiny monkey brains aren’t up to the task physically. Let us all go extinct I say.
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
No we just need to evolve. Lucky for us, that’s a process that never stops. Our job is to guide evolution in the right direction.
kureta@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Social views that are based on “others” and tacitly exclude oneself are dangerous. If you can see the flaws of tribalism and capable of imagining what the right thing to do is, so is everyone else. It will take time, sure. It might take dacades, or even centuries, but defeatism and attributing all negative qualities of humanity to some “others” who just are incapable of thinking for themselves won’t help anyone. Culture is intergenerational accumulation of knowledge and it can change. It did change. It shapes human activity more than biology in many situations. And it evolves way faster than biology. This is not a dig at you. All I am trying to say is, if you can see the wrong and imagine the right, there are definitely many others like you, and we can change things. Not you and me specifically maybe (but also maybe you and me) but all the people with a conscience, in time.
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
the issue is that it seems quite likely that humanity will always have a subset of the population that lords over the rest of them, and that subset has a vested interest in keeping tribalism alive.
Sure, you can be an optimist and dream of a future that is radically different to how human culture has existed in recorded history, but the realistic expectation is that the widespread education that would need to take place just…won’t.