Graeme said:Jersay said:Well the reason is because there will always be someone who will perpotrate. if we don't dislike/hate them we won't do very much to stop it.
No if you get angry at the senseless crime or pressure the government into action then it chances. Hating one person for a crime doesn't do anything. Getting mad and then rationally thinking about something without bringing in a dislike or hatred for another race of people or in a criminal sense a person and try to go for the bigger picture something can be done.
If you are pressuring the government to take action than it just becomes an extension of yourself. Having henchmen doesn't take the onus of responsibility off you. You are still the person who dislikes the other due to their actions and wants justice to come or at least wants the crime to stop.
I don't think you understand, people don't become racist due to one experience. Living at Jane and finch (Toronto) and seeing that every single shooting there is done by a black man, makes you start to dislike black men in the Jane and finch area. You will avoid them and be extra cautious of them. If you weren't I would call you stupid.
If the only Black men someone ever saw were from the Jane and Finch area, and all they ever saw of them was what seems like their insatiable desire to shoot people; You MUST be able to understand how that person could become racist to all Black men/people.
That is your opinion, and I happen to be to Jane and Finch and I have seen black people and white people and I still go about a person to person thing. I'm not going to hate the black community or all black males for the action of a few.
I don't think people actually do dislike or hate people they don't know. They may express it in those terms, but it's really a fear of something different or unfamiliar. It's tribalism, essentially, a recognition that somebody isn't a member of the group you belong to, and is therefore a potential threat. That probably made sense on the plains of Africa a million years ago when we evolved into what we are now pleased to call modern humans. It doesn't anymore, but evolution's built it into us. I think that's really what's at the heart of racism, and religious bigotry, and many other ills that beset the world. But the greatest thing about the modern human mind is that it enables us to step outside of things like that, go beyond them. We can choose to accept each other as we are, warts and all, and deny the baggage of our evolutionary biology.
But too few of us do that.
I agree with your statement Dexter Sinister.