Re: "The blacks" -- It's Debateable

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Subject: Re: "The blacks"

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Astrid

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Date Posted: 10:54:56 09/27/02 Fri
In reply to: Sadie 's message, "Re: "The blacks"" on 21:49:10 09/26/02 Thu

>>No. Differences ARE a good thing! I just think that
>>race is a bad thing. Everyone does a perfectly
>>natural thing--we classify everything. We find
>>patterns, whether they exist or not, in order to make
>>sense of the world.
>>
>>One thing we do is to stereotype people. This will
>>always happen. Fine. But when it's based on
>>something as genetically irrelevant as the colour of
>>your skin, it's just ugly.
>
>And do you really think that if we did all develop
>roughly the same skin color, people wouldn't find
>something just as irrelavent to stereotype about?
>
>Saying that having everyone be the same color would
>solve the problem suggests that the root of the
>problem is in the fact that we have different colored
>skin. It's not.

No, that's why I said this "will always happen". The thing about skin is that we have no control over it--it's always visible and before people even get to know details about us they can prejudge us based on that.

Of course there are other obvious traits too, like gender and size, but I think race is the most volatile for something that is so irrelevant.

Astrid

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