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by fennecfoxen 3288 days ago
> I really don't like how racism comes up so often in these situations when I think the closer term is probably familiarity or customs

As a rule, 90% of what people call "racism" in the US today is closer to xenophobia.

Likewise, 75% of what they call "racist police" is fundamentally a failure of the justice system as a system to restrain, discipline, or be responsible for its own career employees (police, prosecutors, and even judges), let alone properly incentivise them.
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golemotron 3288 days ago
Xenophobia is a negative spin on an evolved response that is very basic to human nature: homophily [1]. You see it in all human societies.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophily

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BoiledCabbage 3287 days ago
> Xenophobia is a negative spin on an evolved response that is very basic to human nature: homophily

As is murder.

The fact we may have evolved with something doest justify it.

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