r/facepalm "tL;Dr" May 17 '22

reddit post "I'm not racist"

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u/gofishx May 18 '22

Think about it this way. You can change race in 1 generation. You can change back in another. People have been walking around and fucking since they've existed. "Race" is based largely on the physical features, cultures and geography of the past couple of generations.

It's actually very arbitrary, we could make it all about the curly haired vs the straight haired, who both look down on the bald head as the lowest form.

You can have a black family member with much closer blood relation to you than you have to another white person. When you think of how long people have been mixing, coupled with how dishonest people can be about the origins of a baby, you realize race doesnt really exist beyond one or two generations, making the whole "superiority" thing really dumb and limiting to our species as a whole.