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No one can claim having more superior jeans. Even the feared Mongols fell out of fashion.
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Meh. Dad nailed it. "Son, we're not the best race, we're the most violent."
Been thinking on that for 30 years. Still rings true.
The lesson was supposed to be "Son, races aren't actually a thing, they're a categorical method of sorting people into groups based on variable forms of bigotry. Where one race begins and another ends is as arbitrary as the lines we draw in the sand."
Not turning the white supremacy around into some kind of self-hating racism. That makes about as much sense as the white supremacy. And progresses the human race about as far.
Denying diferencess actually regresses the human race. What should be thought is that personal and cultural differences have much bigger influence over behaviour then biological ones. And that humans have this thing called a brain, whos internal wiring can be changed to different levels of being an asshole.
If you don't accept the basic thing, you won't understand the advanced one.
Lumping people into groups and applying attributes to those people based on the groups they find themselves in denies the individual their right to be different.
Hence I said that it is far less important then individual and cultural differences. But I guess being righteous is more important then reading.