How many more?

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Originally Posted by iris lilies

You define the word first.

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I need to ask, why do I define the word "racist?"

This is what I got at the top of the list on a google search. Does it work for you?

"a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another."

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Originally Posted by bae

I grew up in a single-wide in the woods. Now I have a mansion and a yacht. Well, several, actually.

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You should sell a few of the yachts and buy a helicopter. Then you'll be really mobile.

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Originally Posted by UltraliteAngler

I need to ask, why do I define the word "racist?"

This is what I got at the top of the list on a google search. Does it work for you?

"a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another."

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ok then, using that definition, I will not label myself a "racist."

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Originally Posted by iris lilies

ok then, using that definition, I will not label myself a "racist."

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Is there another definition of racist that would allow you to label yourself racist? This is intriguing.

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Originally Posted by bae

I grew up in a single-wide in the woods. Now I have a mansion and a yacht. Well, several, actually.

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On Bae, you're so silly. You think you have to one-up everyone and have the most of everything and have had every experience known to man, and every job. You really don't have to do that. People would probably still like you.

Recent research on brain activity/reaction time that I've seen suggests that we all have interesting biases against/for people of specific types that operate at the subconscious level. How we recognize and deal with those biases seems worth thinking about.

If you use the elementary-school definition of "racist", and tag along with it the connotations of "evil, bad, immoral", then of course it hurts to think about being "racist", and you can't talk about the subject. If you utilize one of the more nuanced definitions, which speaks to prejudice, then it seems we are all "racist", and that doesn't speak to our character so much as it does to the nature of our brains.

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Originally Posted by CathyA

On Bae, you're so silly. You think you have to one-up everyone and have the most of everything and have had every experience known to man, and every job. You really don't have to do that. People would probably still like you.

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I simply speak the truth. And not the words you are putting in my mouth.

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Originally Posted by bae

Recent research on brain activity/reaction time that I've seen suggests that we all have interesting biases against/for people of specific types that operate at the subconscious level. How we recognize and deal with those biases seems worth thinking about.

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I have read about some of this. I find it intriguing.

For instance:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-surprise-you/

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Originally Posted by bae

Recent research on brain activity/reaction time that I've seen suggests that we all have interesting biases against/for people of specific types that operate at the subconscious level. How we recognize and deal with those biases seems worth thinking about.

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I think part of it is the way we're hard-wired to use shortcuts for information. We don't have time to analyze everything about every individual person, place or thing, so we tend to do the more efficient thing which is put things in boxes in our brains. If we then create stories or are fed stories by our tribes about what is in these boxes which contain many people, places and things, we start to believe the stories which are typically simplified "cartoons" based on faulty perceptions, fears, and hopes.