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Originally Posted by fash
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The only way to change that low-level "thinking" is to change the pattern: you need to see members of that demographic not looking like villains (or anything else threatening) before your blood pressure will stop rising the moment you see one of those people.
Of course, now you've conditioned the pavlovian dog to behave in a manner that is more likely to get the dog harmed or killed when released into the real world.
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That's the problem, it's not so black and white.
Unrealistic to believe an entire demographic of people will behave a certain way, whether it be villainous or chivalrous. This is simply impossible.
That's the problem with people though, they see the narrative of other people as they want and can paint the reasons behind what they see as they want.
I agree though, for peoples minds and hearts to change regarding deepseated hatred or distrust of other races they have to see with their own eyes that these people are actually people too and there's no need to demonize or dehumanize them.
I am a realist and too cynical to think racism will ever go away it's simply too large of a part of humanity to ever leave us. Humans by nature are cruel and do sadistic things to other humans and this behavior will always continue the cycle of man on man violence.
Humans always find a reason to hate one another, and racism is just one of countless props to justify violence on other humans.