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This entire category of behaviours is extremely rational in situations it evolved from. That said, many situations in which it doesn't fit.

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My Sami ancestors dreaded the Chuds, because they showed up to raid, rape and murder. Saxons feared my Norse ancestors, Romans the Saxons...

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I blame nobody in Syria right now if they have a fear/hatred of bearded Arabs, or Afghan minorities of Pashtos, etc. etc.

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However, what often seems to happen is that hatreds and fears transfer mostly by hearsay and cultural bigotry, rather than lived experience.

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I have an "irrational" loathing of Romani people after I was attacked by a bunch of youths and pickpocketed separately in 1 year in Prague-

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- plus several other beliggerent or malevolent encounters in the same city. I know the problems these communities suffer, and yet...

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I would never justify applying these aversions on an individual basis, or to repress or otherwise attack communities, but it's not idiotic.

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applying these aversions on individual basis is exactly what i'm calling idiotic tho. i got mugged by group of black dudes in amsterdam but

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if i then hated every black person i encountered in life knowing nothing about them except their skin color, i think that would be idiotic

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It's important to recognize that this heuristic, correctly us, is based on culture. Black guy or the ever popular "muslim" - not a culture.

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Wahabbism, Nazism, Romani (culture not ethnicity) and Afghan mountain tribes imply certain cultural properties. Skin color does not; cannot.

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right! this is why my tweet was about the stupidity of hating individuals bc of unchangeable surface characteristics, which many ppl do

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let us be honest, it goes a bit further than that. If you belong to a certain group it is rational, to, say, hate Israelis (not jews)

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Well, uh, exactly. Point was about rationality of expecting similar behaviors. Blacks are a phenotype, not a social group. Israelis, OTOH...

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