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Scarcity of Resources Might Make People More Racist, Shows Cool Face-Morphing Study
New York Magazine ^ | June 9, 2014 | Jesse Singal

Posted on 06/09/2014 6:45:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 06/09/2014 6:45:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Sun rises in the East because racism.


2 posted on 06/09/2014 6:46:35 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
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This explains why blacks live in fear of being beaten down or frequently killed and raped by whites if they get caught outside after dark, or in the wrong neighborhood.


3 posted on 06/09/2014 6:49:42 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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To: nickcarraway

Maybe this horrible economy has made taxpayers hostile toward the Takers for very good reason.


4 posted on 06/09/2014 6:50:57 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: nickcarraway

In our country’s recent history we’ve celebrated diversity in our population as if it were a good thing. However, one look at world history will show you that no country with a diverse population of different races, languages, and religion has long survived.

Countries don’t naturally form with a diverse population, and when in the past they’ve occurred it’s usually been as a result of armed conquest. These unnaturally formed countries have either melded together into a single population made up of one mixed race with one language and one religion or they’ve come apart, and they’ve usually come apart with extreme violence. The longer these diverse populations are forced to coexist with one another without mixing and becoming one, the more the hatred grows among them and the more violently they break apart, but break apart they will, or genocide will settle the issue once and for all.

Why is this and why can’t we all just get along? The truth of the matter is that we (the human race) just aren’t as civilized as we would like to think we are. Our species, Homo-sapiens-sapiens, isn’t that long “out of the trees” and the veneer of civilization is very thin, to non-existent, upon us all. We’re all carrying the genes that got us here and some of those genes carry a very basic survival instinct that has allowed us to survive thus far.

This most basic of all survival instincts is self preservation and it’s the one that warns us to be very wary of those who are different than us, our family, and our tribe. Those who possessed this survival instinct survived and reproduced, and those who had no fear/distrust of strangers didn’t survive. Over the years, this survival instinct has been referred to as tribalism, nationalism, ethnocentrism, racism, and various other isms, but it’s an inborn instinct carried in our genes whether we like it or not.


5 posted on 06/09/2014 6:57:21 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war,and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: nickcarraway

Scarcity causde by government intervention doesn’t help


6 posted on 06/09/2014 7:00:31 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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Well put. Humans survived that banded together in groups. We’re pre-wired to associate those that look like us and fear those that don’t.


7 posted on 06/09/2014 7:04:40 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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I’ve spent way to many nights/days on drinking adventures between both hard core “redneck” bars and the “hood”, and everything in between.

My ex-girl and I wanted to experience real life.

In the hood, we seemed to get along but were advised on multiple occasions that we needed to leave, for our own safety.

At the so-called redneck bars, everything was good until my ex-girl got so drunk and obnoxious that they wanted to beat ME up, just for being with her. I was always able to extract ourselves, but in the “hood” bars, there was always a sense of uncertainty. It was like “everything is cool”, “you guy’s are cool”, but you need to leave now if you value your life.


8 posted on 06/09/2014 7:07:26 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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What you said.


9 posted on 06/09/2014 7:08:42 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. – Robert Heinlein)
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To: TigerClaws
"Well put. Humans survived that banded together in groups. We’re pre-wired to associate those that look like us and fear those that don’t."

Everyone knows this but have to pretend it's not true.

Acknowledging the truth is racist.

10 posted on 06/09/2014 7:12:09 PM PDT by blam
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There you go again, ... using common sense and biological history to explain something that, yes, becomes obvious if one knows a little biological history and applies common sense.

Very well put, FRiend.

Now if only more of our species knew some biological history, and had some common sense...

11 posted on 06/09/2014 7:13:42 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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There’s no feeling quite like the flesh-crawling one you get when you realize you’ve wandered into to wrong neighborhood at the wrong time of day.


12 posted on 06/09/2014 7:15:08 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: DJ Taylor

Exactly.


13 posted on 06/09/2014 7:19:36 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: Zeneta

I always knew when it was time to leave one particular black bar in Oakland. Everything was cool when my white landlord and I went to lunch. (He had, after all, set up the black owner in business. ) If I stayed past 3 o’clock, though, I was sure to hear the words “Who’s the f’n honky?”. I took that as a pretty clear signal that it was time to depart (quickly).


14 posted on 06/09/2014 7:22:18 PM PDT by Bob
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There’s no feeling quite like the flesh-crawling one you get when you realize you’ve wandered into to wrong neighborhood at the wrong time of day.


Yes, and then there are those times when that feeling wasn’t instituted by your own self awareness, but by the awareness of others.

Now that will drive you to sobriety.


15 posted on 06/09/2014 7:24:58 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: blam

The article basically states the hard truth.

People are racist, and that is all there is to it.

In situations where people have little or nothing, such as in prison, it is the only thing that matters at all.


16 posted on 06/09/2014 7:27:08 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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When I was surveying, my two running buddies who worked with were black and the other Native American/Mexican, during work we could sometimes argue race and race politics all day long (both were smart guys), with them attacking white racism, but every evening when it was time to go in our work clothes to a working class Houston bar, I would win the argument with asking them which redneck bar do we go to, black, or Mexican, they always insisted on the white one as we would shop the various bars in that part of town.

Did I dig at them and ask them “but why? those are redneck Texas cowboy and construction types”, “wouldn’t we be safer as a mixed race trio in the black or Mexican bar?” at that they would laugh, and if I pushed it they would flat out beg that it might cost all of us our lives.


17 posted on 06/09/2014 7:28:48 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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To: nickcarraway

Wonder what happened when they showed white faces to black people. {crickets}


18 posted on 06/09/2014 7:29:17 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: nickcarraway

people bad
desert tortoise good


19 posted on 06/09/2014 7:32:53 PM PDT by dontreadthis
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To: Zeneta
I have to wonder if there is any place in this country where that same feeling is even possible were the racial rolls reversed.

And, no, being stopped and questioned by the police is NOT the same thing.

20 posted on 06/09/2014 7:33:02 PM PDT by skeeter
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