Racism definition

prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.

That's racism, not racial tension. While similar, the two aren't the same

One is active, one is passive

Is it still your premise that people are motivated because they think they can get away with it? Or is it that they are guilty of feeding fake propaganda themselves?

Both.

People think they can get away with stuff because of society's views on things. Society's views are informed by the media.

(I thought that the second part was implied, but apparently not)

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Can you define "Racial Tension" how you understand it, gohan?

@gohan Don’t you get it? It’s these false attacks that are feeding this racial tension you speak of. Are you ok with this?

Feelings of wariness or fear caused by the sole fact that one's race is different from another's, caused by an underlying, basal fear of the unknown.

Also, it doesn't matter if I'm okay with it or not. It'll continue.

@Larken When you have time please select some interest roles as well. Thank you.

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Ok

@Larken Congratulations on getting professor role. 😃

Thanks Gwench

I'll post the sources here in a sec

cheese and ham

earth is round

Responding to gohan now

@Atomicbattlefield Dude, stop

no

It's annoying as all hell

!mute @Atomicbattlefield

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There

😁

Thank you

I hate people like that

When you say "fear caused by the fact that one's race is different from another, caused by the underlying fear of the unknown".

I know there's such thing of the fear of the unknown. For example, when some tribes receive guests of all colors, they get perplexed and scared, because of the "unknown" that you speak of. That is normal. When something is very strange to us, we usually respond with fear, because we cannot categorize them in any of our developed faculties (This is developed by Mircea Eliade, when he talks about the Scared and the Profane in his books).

But here's the thing, the "fear" that you speak of coming from the underlying fear of unknown, is not the same "fear" that would be put in the conception of "racial tension". Those are two DIFFERENT things: one comes because of nature and because of lack of contact with other civilizations; the other comes because of the INDOCTRINATION, caused by external factors that are not consequent with the type of fear you describe.

I believe the main problem we're having is that we're defining racial tension in two different ways.

Maybe if we stopped using that label, it would help

I think it was necessary from the get go to define our terms. Sometimes people might agree on the same thing, but they disagree because their definitions are not put.

In summary, what I am trying to say is that, yes, we as humans NATURALLY fear the unknown.

And that natural fear, when applied to humans, is what I define as racial tension.

But there's no such thing as inherent fear for a race when you take into account the fact that the environment where this human is born is already constructed for a long time.

Alright, I think I get it

We're in agreement, but not understanding that we're in agreement

The best example I can give you right now is that of Tarzan (I know it's cartoonish, but it gives a great image).

Tarzan was human, but he was raised by monkeys. When humans of the SAME color as him came, he was "afraid" and curious.