If you look at how the USA has progressed, the south is STILL stuck in certain trends that affect current day society. It’s why they’re the bible belt, but states like Arizona and California aren’t reffered to as “the south”.
Geographically it makes no sense. California, Arizona, New Mexico, they’re all geographically south, but that’s not what that means.
And racism in the south is just so much more amplified than it is in other states. When you think about it, the 1860s are not THAT long ago in terms of societies.
I think we’re still being affected by actions from those times. A family experiences hardship. So they raise their kid to not trust those that caused it. And that kid grows up and does the same. Without a break in the chain, it just perpetuates more of the same.
So we’re only about 8 generations removed from that time. It’s really not that much. And OBVIOUSLY slavery is going to cause racism.
But what if the slaves were left on Africa, and the plantation owners just had automated drones that did all the work?
What would racism today look like?
Racism might unfortunately be natural and an evolutionary advantage, since mistrusting other tribes could save your life, therefore passing on this trait when reproducing. Everyone is prejudiced to some degree, even if they claim they aren’t.
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This is ignoring medieval history entirely where bigotry was focused on religion, but broadly people with different skin colors were accepted. It is also ignoring ancient history where differently skin colored people could raise in ranks (up to general), and bigotry was culture centric.
I agree that tribalism is a very old thing, but racism is brand new in history terms.
Racism is bigotry.
Tribalism is bigotry.
Antisemitism is bigotry.
Hating gays is bigotry.
It’s all bigotry.
There’s nothing special about any form of bigotry. It’s all horrendous.
Saying that doesn’t invalidate the horrendous nature of any form of bigotry.
Neither invalidates the other.