Nobody is born a racist. They are conditioned to be that way by their environment. What they see and hear from family, friends, television, etc. Change the conditioning and you change their perspective. Won't work for everyone but it will work for some. Banning something only makes it more attractive to impressionable young people.
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Nobody is born a racist. They are conditioned to be that way by their environment. What they see and hear from family, friends, television, etc. Change the conditioning and you change their perspective. Won't work for everyone but it will work for some. Banning something only makes it more attractive to impressionable young people.
Not Australia but in EUROPE over the last 10 years here are some numbers that may surprise you all --
. In the U.S. the yearly average of people killed in mass killing is 10.6, whereas in Europe it is 12.5.
“all the multiple-victim public shootings in Western Europe have occurred in places where civilians are not permitted to carry guns. The same is true in the United States: All the public shootings in which more than three people have been killed have occurred in places where civilians may not legally bring guns. “
It would be interesting to see some real data on that but lets not forget Europe has twice as many people as the US.
Wrong wrong wrong wrong. Humans are extremely tribal and viciously territorial to the extreme. To a human there is "my" people, my race, my religion, my sect, my language, my regional dialect, my clothing, my town, my nation, my football team ad nauseam. Everybody else's stuff is "their" stuff and even "bad" stuff or "wrong" stuff.
If you squarely face the reality of human nature you will realize that the survival reflex you call racism is quite normal. Now via culture some of us learn to be tolerant of those who are different (to a point) and some of us don't. Some cultures are more tolerant than others.
So yes, most people are born racists and I would take it that even racially tolerant people still like their own best inside. Being from the UK where the goal is to be politically correct to the point of national identity destruction I can see how your views might differ from mine. Over here in the colonies the recent situations are even really bringing out the racism is some of the more vocal black people. That is both expected and normal.
No, people aren't born racist, but we tend towards xenophobia when we're isolated. If you were to take a bunch of kids of different races, put them all together, and slap them out somewhere in the woods, they'd never turn against each other because some of them have different colored skin. As they grow up, they'd consider themselves all parts of the same group. Race wouldn't ever become an issue.
But if someone else were to one day wander into their camp unannounced, they'd be instantly suspicious of him.
So The Dukes of Hazzard re-runs has been pulled. http://time.com/3944107/tv-land-dukes-of-hazzard-confederate-flag/
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As a believer in the absurdity of existence, I've come to embrace this current politically correct hysteria. It's power to entertain never disappoints.
You shouldn't believe everything you hear on Fox News. My national identity is stronger than ever. I'm English and very proud of it.
May I suggest you take a trip to your local children's nursery or playground. Children will play together without any thought for the colour of the skin of the other kids. All they see is another little person. It's wonderful to watch. It's the parents who plant those seeds of racism in their minds.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...protest-after-tv-land-dumps-dukes-of-hazzard/
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tv-land-pulls-dukes-hazzard-806265
Funny how thinking about it. Society can have a harmful impact on our society.
Sounds as though you've never read The Lord of the Flies.
Your view that children would never turn against themselves in the wild with no adult supervision is hopelessly deluded.
Children are little barbarians.
They can be cruel, yeah, since they don't have that forward thinking, empathetic part of their brains hasn't become well developed yet.
But with that said, Lord of the Flies isn't a set in stone treatise on child psychology. Something like it can happen, but it's not an inevitable conclusion. And as far as race goes, if you pile a bunch of kids of different races together in even proportions, and have them grow up among each other, then, to them, different skin color or eye shape will mean as much to them as hair color.
TV Land removed The Dukes of Hazard from the air because of the confederate flag on the Robert E. Lee Charger.
How ridiculous is that!
PC run amok
How ridiculous is that!
PC run amok
And the idiocy continues.
I had no idea so many conservatives would advocate for a TV show about people on probation who aren't allowed to carry guns continuing to break the law and facing no consequences whatsoever!
Eh, they're just some good 'ole boys, never meanin' no harm.
And it surprises me not a bit that a liberal would leap to the wrong conclusion from innocuous comments.
By the way, I never watched the show. Didn't care for it. But that has nothing to do with the current Purge Hysteria.
No, stereotyping and assuming too much based upon one's political affiliation is what conservatives do.