Does a person become a Racist though experience or through brainwashing during youth?

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hellionthesagereborn · Accepted Answer

Both and a dash of biology. Now biologically no one is a racist but they are TRIBALISTIC. So that which they are familiar with is good, those who hold the same ideas are good and those who oppose those ideas are bad, those in the group are good, those outside the group are bad. This is tribalism.

Now this can very easily become racism when experiences and/or how a person is raised or brainwashed (as we are seeing with the rampant antiwhite racism that is being pushed in our current society) causes them to start to identify immutable characteristics with their "tribe". So racism is not inherent, but the path to it is. Once one has the ability to step outside their life experiences or question their conditioning, they quickly become incappable of racism as they see that immutable characteristics in other people has no impact on who that person is. The problem is being able to step outside of one's bias's which is insanely difficult just in general (as our current times show).

RationalMale · Accepted Answer

Experience. Studies show that kids who go to more racially diverse schools have worse attitudes about other races compared to kids who go to more racially homogenus schools.

Me personally, I was raised by a very conservative family in the suburbs, and my parents had a very good attitude towards other races. Think of the GOP voters who were overjoyed to support Herman Cain.

My views towards other races became much more realistic and much more negative when I started working security and quickly realized how different races reacted to being told rules, that they were trespassing, etc. For black people, the rules and such didn't matter, that I am White quickly became the utmost importance.

FlutteringFeelings · Accepted Answer

A racist becomes a racist through experience? How can an experience turn someone into something that is the lowest thing that anyone can decide to be on this earth. History tells it all about the mentality of others on how it began and why it’ll never end. If one feel they are superior than the other then they believe it’s an easy advantage to control and manipulate. For instance, bullies will pick on a kid who they believe cannot defend themselves. The words that are used from the bully to the other kid would slowly break down the confidence of that individual. If someone can break you down with their words then eventually the physical control they have over you will become an easy task.

If someone says that they experienced racism then I would see where that person is coming from because the racist believes they have a leverage over you.

menina · Accepted Answer

I would say it's through experience. No one is born a racist, people become racist throughout their lives based on what happens to them. That being said, I'm NOT saying that being racist is acceptable, I'm just saying that I can see where it comes from.
Also, you can be brainwashed but it comes a time when you must learn how to think by yourself.

normalice · Answer

I would say we're all naturally tribalists: that is inclined to be suspicious of outsiders. And there is no clearer indicator of an outsider than a different skin color.

But that's nature. And the point of civilization is to transcend our nature (or at least try to). As such, exposure to other races, who are economic equals, while young tend to make racism improbable. Of course in isolated, rural area they tend not to get much exposure to other races beyond what they see on Fox news - which makes a point of being unfair to perpetuate white supremacy..

AmericanASheck · Answer

I’ll be the first one to admit I’ve said racist things, I’ve put blacks down and stereotyped them. But I never felt like I was above them or better than them. It mainly stems from experiences with black people at a young age, I’ve been in probably 30 fist fights with black kids, cause my school in philly was pretty horrible, but what I came to realize is, everyone was a piece of shit in that school, and me targeting it as “oh it’s the black ones” was just ignorance. There’s black people I don’t like, and my ignorance led me to believe it’s cause they’re black, but growing up a bit and seeing the bigger picture it was just that person. I’ve met a lot of black people who changed my perspective on the way I felt and acted, and concluded I was just ignorant to the fact that we’re all people. And I’ll hate some blacks people and some white and some Mexican, but I’ll hate THEM not their race.

TheLittleInnocent · Answer

I saw the question "Ex-racists what made you change?" on r/askreddit. Most of them talked about being skinheads and being part of racist groups in their teens or just simply acting the same way their parents did or taught them to. Also because of having a bad experience with people of a certain race or because of the things they had heard about or been told about a certain group of people.

Anonymous · Answer

Through the Democrat party who uses it because they have zero positive ideas.

Shaggy_KW · Answer

Could possibly be both. Say you have super racist parents and they push that on you, you're most likely going to grow up believing those morals because we copy our parents. On the other hand, take Hitler for example. He was a veteran who wanted to get into art school. A Jewish doctor gave his mother the chemo that killed her, and Jewish judges rejected him from art school. We all know how that turned out.

cth96190 · Answer

It depends on your definition of what is racist.
I find it sad that so many people have been conditioned psychologically to assume that racism is undesirable.
Published science and observable reality show that there are big differences between the races.
It is self-evident that races should not cohabit on the same real estate and that miscegenation is a crime against nature and your ancestors.

Gravit1 · Answer

Somewhere along the way a person decides people do things because of their skin color or that things happen to a person because of their skin color. Either belief fosters racism. If you see all people as people, then racism does not form. People use skin color to justify a whole slough of evil or good intentioned mistakes. There is no white supremacy, white privilege, or any superiority whatsoever. The belief in such only fuels racism.

Anonymous · Answer

The minorities become racist due to experience and the majorities due to learning. We are taught to be scared of the dark and go towards the peace and light since young. Evil is shown as black coloured whereas light is shown as safety and doves for peace. Even the minorities have this taught engrained in their brains but as they went through experiences , they changed.
And for anyone saying racists are born. Sure apes and chimpanzees were all racists towards each other

Surely · Answer

When a black person tells you to your face that they don’t believe in pulling the race card, but they will to benefit themselves. Then they do stupid stuff to get back at the company and cause the company to crack down on everyone.
Give me one reason that I shouldn’t be a little racist.
Plus the Democrats say that all Americans are racist. Especially the Republicans.
So I guess that would make me a racist

Anonymous · Answer

Some people are raised to be racist. Some other people grow up open-minded and later get traumatized by some type of negative experiences with another race.
The first type tend to hate all other races and feel superior.
The second type might have selective racism against one specific race for specific reasons.
Everyone in that race is guilty until proven innocent.

NOleftIstISsane · Answer

The “Racism” Notion, It’s a lie... At best, The media , The left and Common core brought it back... And The Democrats use race for political ends.. Again, racism is a lie.(Statistically speaking- Blacks are as close to “racist” as any race can get I suppose as they are more volatile, Simple and quick to react by nature.)... By definition, Everyone is racist as humans categorize everything... so it’s kind of a “Straw man”... .. Hard to explain here as I am point typing but Nobody cared until Obama, Media, common core teachers, Tech and bLM marxist scum,,, They ALL are Terrorists and ALL need to perish.

TallAnon · Answer

Both the media and selection bias can play a role.
I know one vietnamese guy and he tried stabbing me with a pair of scissors (almost broke his hand for that attempt), so if I see another one, my brain automatically pays more attention.
If I knew 10 and 1 did it, I wouldn't think about his race as much.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

Can be a combination of both. At the core of racism is bitterness, extreme arrogance and hatred.

Humans aren't good by nature, so by default they have all the ingredients to become a racist naturally as they grow and getter older and experience life for what it is.

7771999 · Answer

We all start with a biological program that causes us to favour our own. Then, when we get older, we get indoctrinated by everything around us to let go of those ideas.

Then often, thanks to life experiences, we regain those understandings of race.

Stoner710 · Answer

Brain washing during youth, If you look at kid playing without teaching them to look at skin color and make judgements about them. They will play just fine and probably be friends for years.

If you teach that black people are inferior or teach that white peoples are the oppressors and black people are oppressed then the black child will grow to hate white people and the white child will think he’s superior to black people racism is taught it’s not natural

Dargil · Answer

I was raised in a home where my Nanny looked just like.. My theory is that racial bigotry is learned from age (?) 11 through maybe 14. Puberty. I don't know why.

NathanDavis · Answer

Both, and more. For example, a serious lack of identity... then you just adopt any kind of controversial ideology that can make you seem like you have a personality. @7771999

Anonymous · Answer

I think it's experience but not always personal experience.

Sometimes they hear a story from someone about x person did so and so to person y. So you shouldn't trust him.

Or certain neighborhoods start to get a bad reputation.

Or you turn on the news and see BLM dickheads looting shops or burning cities down.

kingofthellamas · Answer

hmmm. I think there in the UK there is increasing pressure on scarce public resources. When you see others getting to the front of the line based on their skin or country, that experience is going to fan the flames of racism.

NikolaiIvanov · Answer

I'm a racist because I've seen a terrorist attack happen in my nation in front of my eyes and I've seen left wing people supporting them even though they themselves were mass raped by them.

iseekpinetrees · Answer

Can just be outside influences can be from experiences.

suisuiola · Answer

I guess brainwashing? Only because you aren't born a racist, racism is something that is taught and that you see through media, stereotypes and all of that...

Leavesbound · Answer

Things like that form during a person's youth and most likely in the home or at school.

karaspara · Answer

Brainwashed we have all had negative experience with various people why would only a certain type have hatred held against them

Shihab91 · Answer

Parents and media. Media always try to represent some races as they are advanced while others are backwards this is a brainwashing because its half the truth.

RCLJT · Answer

Both, my mom was born and raised in the Deep South in the 30’s. Every other word out of her mouth was “ nigger” I was also exposed to actual racism through her direct family.

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

Well, with my ex-girlfriend it was brainwashing by her Mother

alpha_aude · Answer

I would say both. I must admit because of an old job I started despising a certain community. It was a mix of rudeness and obnoxious behaviour...

Steinkopf · Answer

Growing up racism wasn't a topic but I had bad experiences. Stereotypes are true more often than I'd like them to be.

Anonymous · Answer

Brainwashing, mostly. Though a single negative experience is usually enough for a person to paint an entire group with a broad brush. It's easier to look at it as "those people" instead of "that person." Simple minds ever have simple views.

najekim · Answer

It can start by how your parents react to ethnicities. Then something unfortunate may have happened to re-enforce that upbringing.

EssenceOfLight · Answer

B  I'm surrounded with white people and racism doesn't exist for me.

007kingifrit · Answer

first off both of your answers are "experience" so you asked the question "which is true a, or a" so you asked no question at all racism is a biological trait of all humans; not a learned behavior

Anonymous · Answer

I think it can be a little of both, but probably more experience. I didn't hate Asians until I visited Asia and saw how much they hate White people

Lynx122 · Answer

It's ignorance that leads to fear and hate mostly but the things you listed can also play a role.

Xoirwinkan · Answer

A lot of young people are taught to hate white people in the leftist schools (and boys).

JamieLoves · Answer

They meet people in a particular race and find that many are just crap assholes.

Anonymous · Answer

I'd guess both potentially but upbringing and environment are likely to be most dominant.

Anonymous · Answer

Stuff like this.

Djaay · Answer

A person becomes a racist through transgressions of infiority shortly after denying the truth they've learned about the presumtion of knowledge pertaining about God.

Anonymous · Answer

So far as I can tell, what's called "anti-racism" is racist to the very core.

Anonymous · Answer

Both, I got framed by a Puerto Rican and I could care less if that girl got raped N killed. I would bang a Puerto Rican but F em

HHHHIHHHHHIHHHH · Answer

no, not every one is racist

KirstyW · Answer

It can be either, or both.

collie22 · Answer

i call it bad influences and bad judgment

MasterOfReality · Answer

Both can play a role.

jasco · Answer

It can be both but usually its brainwashing

FutterwackenMcSappin · Answer

Yes. I like the easy questions. 😊

jahaims · Answer

Wouldn't brainwashing be experience

Drumlin2001 · Answer

Can be both

GermanGuy87 · Answer

A bit of both

JessieBellll · Answer

Both

ohhhhhlord · Answer

I’m not racist I hate everybody the same

Jamie05rhs · Answer

Both.

Anonymous · Answer

Society creates a racist

msc545 · Answer

Both probably.

Snakeyes7 · Answer

Both

allaboutyou2 · Answer

Racism is taught.

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