Prejudice is. Racism is not. I had two tweets on the innate nature of tribalism and cited an evolutionary psychology study on where race fits in. The authors point out there haven't been races & in contact for long enough for us to have developed cognitive mechanisms for racismhttps://twitter.com/Cat9bx0219/status/998149189811998720 …
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They hypothesise that categorizations by sex will remain constant in a mixed group with shared goals because, as a sexually reproducing species, it has been useful to categorize others by sex for millions of years. No such usefulness for race. They find it soon forgotten.
3:47 AM - 20 May 2018
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