Posted by SecularHumanistGod on August 18, 2001 at 19:51:07:
In Reply to: Racism (White Supremacy) posted by Virtual_GOD on August 06, 2001 at 02:17:50:
You're attributing too much to one particular ethnic group.
The vast majority of Internet users are in the Americas and Europe, therefore they are concerned primarily with Euroamerican racism.
No one can deny that over the last 500 years, Euroamericans have inflicted tremendous pain and suffering on the rest of humanity, and have destroyed whole civilizations. However, racism exists in most human societies, it's just that Euroamerican racism gets all the press. (Ask a Filipino how they feel about Japanese, a Tamil how they feel about a Hindu, etc.
In my opinion, racism is a primitive survival response...a simplistic way of identifying members of your own 'tribe.' It is not very much more advanced than the behavior of wild animals. As such, it conflicts with advanced, civilized, human social behavior.
Civility is going to become more and more important as the human population grows and there is a greater demand on limited resources. When you encounter racists, make sure you let them know they're acting like wild animals, not human beings.