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Old 01-14-2009, 12:45 AM
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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.
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...
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