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Can u gimme one reason why someone would be a racist or a bigot ?

There can be many reasons why someone would be a racist or a bigot. My reason would be that some people are just taught to think a certain way. And they are not always exposed to the worlds diversity in a way that they can relate or come to understand. So they sort of stay in a mental rut, if you know what I mean. Like their brain cannot evolve past their way of thinking.
What do you say. What would make someone a racist or bigot.
Butterflykisses24 · 51-55, F Best Comment
I think the way they are raised.
Zonuss · 41-45, M
@Butterflykisses24 Some yes. Some of it is from politically indoctrinations.
Butterflykisses24 · 51-55, F
@Zonuss thanks for ba

Pherick · 41-45, M
Some people just have this inborn sense of different = bad. So I am straight and you are gay? That makes you different therefore bad. Exchange straight and gay for white/black or Christian/Atheist.

Its usually the less intelligent among us that are like this. Education and background can help you realize that different is just that, different. Not better or worse, just different. We thrive on differences.

I do love how bigoted people get so angry (and usually block me) when you point out they are being bigots. Makes me chuckle at their stupidity.
Zonuss · 41-45, M
@Pherick I see.
SW-User
I think we often fear what we don't know. Rather than putting in the effort to learn about another culture, religion, political position.... whatever....we choose to oppose it based on our own ignorance.
Zonuss · 41-45, M
@SW-User Or hate, or despise/
Because that person thought he or she is better than other person from another race.
@Zonuss : My History Professor once said the European people in 1600s had the thought that they wouldn’t be slaves.
Zonuss · 41-45, M
@MrsMiller31218 All races had people who were slave at one point or another.
Some people are still slaves today. With the emotional and physical abuse that goes on in homes, places of work, and churches, too.
@Zonuss : The abuse of power in the name of race, status, & religion.
ladycae · 100+, F
i think it makes them feel more worthwhile if they can think off someone else than being less than themselves,
Zonuss · 41-45, M
@ladycae It makes them feel lower actually.
ladycae · 100+, F
@Zonuss i agree but that is not their perception.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
Its divide and rule. Blame things on Muslims and black people (also of the 99%) and give the rich a free pass.
Zonuss · 41-45, M
@Burnley123 Good point.
SW-User
@Burnley123 And poor whites have a group they can claim are inferior.
SW-User
So they can shit on someone else.
Chickie · F
Like you said in the post they get it from the environment or family they were raised in or from peers if not from the family.
MethDozer · M
It's a malfunction of the human species evolutionary biology in the modern world. We are kinda born that way but logic and reasoning over come it in most cases, but not all.
MethDozer · M
@Zonuss Says who?
"Internalized convoluted bias" not sure what that word salad is even supposed to mean.
Zonuss · 41-45, M
@MethDozer I know what ignorance means. It means you.
MethDozer · M
@Zonuss That hurts.😢
I guess your simple conspiracy theory is the correct answer for a pervasive and complex problem.

 
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