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Originally Posted by LΩVE
That's true. I guess I was thinking of it in context of forming an complicated opinion someone based on very little instead of in terms of a quick opinion formed for the same reason.
I guess sometimes it is helpful...if you're alone in a dark alleyway and someone suspicious heads towards you it can be helpful, yes.
I think bigotry is rooted in both fear and ego.
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Ego? How so? Ego is about an arrogance. Supremacy, yes... One thinks they are superior than another and can subject the other to a lower level...
SWTXBelle posted the definition of racism by Webster...
Others have posted the academics associated with the different forms of how racism as a social construct and how it affects societies...
The other issue is people rationalize everything after everything is said and done...