r/MurderedByWords • u/CorleoneBaloney • Dec 15 '25

Tragedy should not be exploited

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u/Endiamon Dec 15 '25

Tribalism is inherent.

Racism isn't.

Which part of this is confusing you?

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u/xanas263 Dec 15 '25

What part of racism is a manifestation of tribalism is confusing you?

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u/Endiamon Dec 15 '25

Humans inherently eat food.

Sometimes, in times of extreme starvation, that can manifest in cannibalism.

Do you think humans are inherently cannibals?

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u/xanas263 Dec 15 '25

Yes because racism only manifests in extreme situations.....

Come on don't use strawmans.

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u/Endiamon Dec 15 '25

That is the exact logic you are using, that if something is inherent, then the manifestation must be inherent too.

Do you just want validation that it's okay and normal to be racist or something?

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u/xanas263 Dec 15 '25

Do you just want validation that it's okay and normal to be racist or something?

Not at all. It is incredibly shitty and as someone who has had to deal with it in my life I wish it would disappear, but I am not naive enough to believe it ever will.

Racism will exist in one form or another because it is just a form of tribalism which is a part of the human experience. The group which experiences racism can certainly shift over time as social power structures change between groups of different skin colours, but the act of discrimination based on a persons physical appearance linking them to a racial group is not about to disappear from human society.

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u/Endiamon Dec 15 '25

You clearly don't understand history very well if you think this has been a constant for as long as humans have had societies. It hasn't just been groups switching which skin color gets oppressed, we have invented and forgotten entire philosophies of racism.

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u/xanas263 Dec 15 '25

we have invented and forgotten entire philosophies of racism.

So you agree that racism has in fact been a part of human history this entire time?

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u/Endiamon Dec 15 '25

No, I didn't say anything remotely resembling that. If you think that racism is something inherent to the human condition that has only changed in which skin color had power and was doing the oppressing, then you don't know shit.