Do you think if we had access to neurotechnology we could actually stop racism?

[Anonymous]

Like we could mentally hardwire people to see one race - the human race.

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+1 y

Look. Some people in the comments are getting the impression from me that I want to force this on people. I just want to say - that is false.

This would be a type of treatment available for people who want to end racism and who are willing to do it.

Of course sadly not all are capable of doing that

[abc3643]

No.

Racism and any bigotry is actually the result of a survival instinct that is a very old evolved trait in anything with a brain. Specifically, that trait is that ignorance breeds fear which breeds caution against potential threats. In other words, the opposite of "curiosity killed the cat".

Because of this trait, your brain hates not knowing things - especially if those things could be threats. So when you genuinely don't know things and have a genuine lack of actual knowledge, the brain craves anything that resembles knowledge to kill that ignorance and thus reduce or eliminate that fear. You may even start lying to yourself that you do know by taking as fact anything about the unknown that is told to you by others which may or may not be true. So, all bigotries, in short, are the "knowledge" (assumptions or outright bullshit) fed to your brain as a way for your brain to eliminate fear from ignorance about what you don't actually know about. Where do we get this "knowledge" about the unknown? Usually it is what you are told by others. This is how bigotries are passed down through generations.

The nice thing is that bigotries are eliminated with experience. This is why Mark Twain said these about travel:
1. "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
2. “It liberates the vandal to travel — you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.”

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Here is another way to look at it:

Everyone creates two groups of people:
1. Us - Members of Us are the people that you would group yourself with. Members of Us are familiar. You can predict them and they generally aren't threatening.
2. Them - Members of "Them" are the people that you wouldn't not group yourself with. Members of Them are not familiar to you (even though you may think so through your bigoted assumptions). Because you lack real experiences with Them, you don't have real knowledge about Them. So, instead, you listen to what other members of Us say about Them.

Bigotries are the things members of Us tell each other about Them and, often, these things are hurtful about Them because, by making Them into a villain, it helps unify Us and makes Us more special. That's racism in a nutshell when the Us and Them are you race and the other races respectively.

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So, no. No neurotechnology is going to override basic evolved brain functioning that is necessary for survival.
Racism and all bigotries are born from fear due to a lack of knowledge which comes from lack of experience.
With experience, real knowledge is gained and fears erode and bigotries end.

That's how you end racism and, over my lifetime, I've seen it begin to work.

[IronsKev]

I doubt it the problem exists everywhere if it's not black, brown and white it's tribal or national or religious or gender the list of prejudice and conflict is endless too many humans are and always have been and always will be for want of a better word cunts

[btbc92]

Sweetheart. I highly suggest you do not go that route infringing on others' human rights and humanity. You do not play God. That goes against other free will and that is completely inhuman and it makes you no better than those who chose to be like that. To stop racism depends on the person. You can't force others to do something they do not want to do.

[Asker]

Well I never said, that but okay you do you.

[btbc92]

No, you are saying that, because they're already doing that right now and been had that technology within your knowledge or permission.

[btbc92]

without*

[Asker]

Lady you’re crazy, what are you even talking about?

[btbc92]

Exactly what you are talking about. They already have neurotechnology to control people. Why do you think a lot of people are not behaving like normal people? Already been happening. They already have the technology long before you and I were born. They're just now doing that with certain people. You don't even know half of the things going on with people right now.

[btbc92]

What your talking about is biotechnology on an advanced level. Been around for a very long time. So I take no offense in you calling me crazy because these people are not going to care if you think it exists or not. I already know it does. Once you control on that level, that has to be on the person to give in to that. They cannot force you, it has to be of your own free will. And no way in hell is anybody thinking they're doing that to me. I have been given free will for a reason. In order to be part of their new system their slowing introducing right now, they already have people do that. You do not understand how that technology works. Once you do that you cannot just shut that off because it's connected to the person's soul. That is not a joke.

[whirled_up_girl]

That would be nice wouldn't it? I'm afraid my view of the world is a bit more dystopian than that but it's a nice thing to hope for none the less.

[whirled_up_girl]

I read your update and I think I might have misunderstood your question intially, but what I meant in my response is, I'm not sure everyone would do it, that's what I meant by having a more dystopian view of the world. I think some people like to hold on their hate but I'm saying it's a nice idea!

[Asker]

Oh yeah I saw yours, it wasn’t towards you. Interesting thought though

[ohshee]

There is only one race the human race we're 97% the same DNA the last 3% our loving God made it so we can adapt living on this Earth in any kind of extreme weather conditions the cold the Heat he made it so we could adapt no matter where we live and if you really think about it we are all different no matter what I don't care what race you are with every single one of us we are different nobody is the same and we have the same DNA do you have people in this world it want to be a part of the problem they do not want it fixed I will always be a part of the solution because one of these days we are all going to need each other every single one of us is different every shade of white is different every shade of black is different every shade of brown is different every single one of us is different so what the fuck people just have to stop seeing color and understand every single one of us is different

[PuNishant]

You sound like a dectator re

Don't become evil while dealing with Evil.
This is everything wrong with Athist , vegans and feminist and black right activists these days.
There used to be decent people like Gandhi , Martin Luther and Nelson Mandela read about them and choose thier way.
Change might came slow but your soul will not be tainted in the process.

[Manchild2018]

First off the government or healthcare system has no business fucking with anybody's brains and second if someone wants to end racism they would not need this technology placed in them since they already are not racist so what is your point?

[HighValue]

If the media, especially ABC and NBC were gone there would e much less racism.

[DCooper]

That's pretty much my take on it. If this tech did exist, who would have brought it to market? Probably the same people who do all they can to aggravate racism today. Kind of like having an arsonist start a volunteer fire department.

[rcljr]

Humans are a SPECIES that come in many different RACES.

[exitseven]

That is a pretty slippery slope. I would never let anyone mess with my brain.

[OddBeMe]

Unlikely. “Races” are man made bs we use to segregate. It’ll always be like this. Just different attributes.

[Anonymous]

people who want to end racism already aren’t racist tho right so what use would it be? Wtf r they puttin in kids heads these days

[Asker]

Well that’s assuming that racism is taught but the thing is people are born with racism - so even though they try to modify their behavior there’s still gonna have those instances where they want to do something racist.

The point of the treatment would be so that instead Of associating the negative character traits of one person to something superficial like skin color and such, you would associate those negative things to only that person which means we would start judging people as individuals rather than parts of the group.

[anylolone]

Nope, people will find distinctions to be petty about.

[noohair]

These things are learned when we are children. The parents need to fix this.

[jshm2]

No. The brain doesn't work like that.

[jasco]

no that just stop free will not racism

[jasco]

People wouldn't be able to think for themselves if they willing did that

[Asker]

I mean you would still have the ability to hate other humans it’s just that now instead of identifying someone as Asian or Black or White, you would just see them as a human like yourself

[jasco]

so how does that help anything, hate is hate

[Asker]

It would just allow the hate not to be associated with a certain group of people or identity. Basically it would allow people to judge people based on their individual actions. Like you could hate Tyler for the simple fact that he’s a mean kid, Instead of associating that hate for Tyler to the fact that he’s Native American

[jasco]

ok sure i guess in some way that more than likely wouldn't help but i just don't understand how your reasoning would make any difference

[Asker]

The point is to give everyone a chance to be judged as individuals first before being judged as part of a group or Identity. If that makes sense.

Like if you’re a mean person by nature then people will have a valid reason for hating you outside of superficial factors from what they can visually see.

And If you’re a good person - vice versa

[jasco]

So yea i still think that would make things worse in some form of way because people will try to take advangtage of that in some wya

[ManHater]

I would rather fix all the crazy people.

[BillyBalls]

Troll

[Kingofkings1992]

Lol 😂