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We are All Bigots

In the television series Through the Wormhole, there’s an episode titled “Are We All Bigots?”4 And the answer to that question, they concluded, is “yes.”

In my language, we use the word “pre-concept” instead of “bias” or “prejudice.” I find this amusing because it’s a misnomer – prejudice is, in fact, the opposite: it’s not a pre-concept, but a post-concept. We treat different kinds of people differently because we learned, from our past experiences, that they do behave differently. We take into account what we know about a group of people and initially apply it to individuals belonging to it, or vice versa. Doing so is only logical.

Let’s say an alien race decides to land their massive, gun-filled spaceships on Earth. Millions of aliens drop off of them, all carrying plasma rifles and donning state-of-the-art battlesuits. And then one – just one – of them suddenly shoots a human being in the chest, melting this random person to a puddle for no apparent reason. Would you assume the rest of the aliens are friendly and quickly approach to greet and hug one of them? Or are you a biased racist who would instead grab a gun and find a place to barricade yourself in?

Being biased is a matter of survival. We don’t pet a tiger if we have any idea of how tigers in general behave, and we don’t pet any tiger if we have seen how any one of them behaves. When dealing with anything we know can harm us, we must be careful. For our own sake, we must assume the worst. And the most evil, and thus the most menacing thing in the universe we are aware of is other human beings.

When we see a person that doesn’t belong to our group – which is more easily distinguished by skin color, followed by other physical traits and spoken language – doing something we find deplorable, we automatically pin that kind of behavior on their race for two reasons:

1 – Because we need to know what to expect from people like the one in question, so as to be prepared to deal with them;

2 – And because we mentally try to separate ourselves from those who [in our opinion] don’t know how to behave properly.

The first reason is, again, only logical. All we know about people who are different from us is this very fact: that they are not like us. If they don’t look and/or talk as we do, we know they come from a different background from ours, we know they have different values, we know they don’t think like we do. If they have different values and don’t think like we do, they don’t act like us. If they don’t act like us, we don’t know what to expect from them. If we don’t know what to expect from them, they are a potential threat. If they are a potential threat and we see one of them doing something despicable, even if only once, for our own safety we must assume all those who are like them are capable of doing the same. And by assuming so we can no longer trust any of them. Doing anything else could literally get us killed.

At the same time, we, humans, don’t have enough encephalic mass to distinguish eight billion people from one another, to dedicate whole clusters of neurons to each individual we met in the past and leave many more free to fit those we’ll meet in the future. So we simplify things, generalizing.

In the second case I listed earlier – to separate ourselves from those who don’t know how to behave – we think: “I find their attitude and actions condemnable, because it violates what I believe is right. I would never do that. People like me would never do that.” That’s part of our need to feel superior, to believe we are better than others. Sometimes we are, indeed, better; but sometimes we are not. And we still think the same way in the second case, telling ourselves, “I only did this wrong thing once. I’m not really like that.”

We may also witness people of our own group doing something we shun, which leads to a third but yet of a similar nature thought. In such cases, we think, “They must have had some reason to do it.” And then, since they are “one of us,” we blame the individual and not the collective, singling them out, because the alternative would be to include ourselves, which we either refuse to do out of hypocrisy or we simply can’t, in case we really don’t act in such a way.

Our options are to either feel better by choosing to believe we do not commit acts we despise, or to feel worse by not doing so. Since the second alternative is self-destructive, we naturally go with the first.

Regarding others, we can generalize our individual perception of them, individualize our general perception of their group, or do neither. If we go with one of the first two options, we are being racist. If we don’t, we die. And that makes choosing whether to be a racist or not very easy. In fact, we don’t even have to think about it – our instincts automatically choose for us because, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, we have all learned that being racist is the proper way to protect ourselves.

Racism is a logical consequence of natural facts; it stems directly from how our universe works. And the illegal form of racism – which is to actually treat someone worse than others based exclusively on their ethnicity – is just a natural consequence of logical and ideological racism.

As things currently stand, if we don’t discriminate against others based on their race, we risk our own lives. If we do discriminate, we end up in jail. So what can we do?

One alternative would be to keep people of different races apart. But this ship has long sailed (literally). Another alternative would be to decriminalize the illegal form of racism (though it seems the ideological form of it has already been implicitly “miscriminalized” too). But this is not going to happen either and, while different races of people inhabit the same territories, doing so would tend to generate escalating conflicts (which is a very bad thing for reasons I’ll explain later).

A third alternative is what we end up doing in practice: we are wary of those who are unlike us but treat them politely, risking our own safety and well-being until they actually do something wrong. But once they do, we can't say or do anything about it, because by taking any action we’d risk being publicly crucified on the TV and ending up in jail. As a consequence, instead of just being wary we start to hate those who are different from us, because we could have stopped one of their people from doing something wrong but our own laws, written exclusively in their favor, didn’t allow us to. And now no one can resurrect that 12 year-old blond blue-eyed girl who got raped and stabbed to death.

Dramatic events such as the one I just used as an example are rare, though. In the vast majority of cases, nothing serious happens and we all manage to get along somewhat peacefully, mostly by avoiding those who are unlike us as much as we possibly can. But criminalizing racism is a double-edged sword, because it can enable crimes to occur by making anyone of a different ethnicity (or rather “with a lighter skin,” since racism, in the Western world and in practice, applies exclusively to one race) from the perpetrator’s refuse to intervene when they witness a criminal or otherwise immoral act.

Finally and thankfully, we have a fourth alternative available which is to have a single race of human beings inhabiting Earth. And this is the only actual solution to the problem.

The Dark Side

I was going to be subtle about it but, given that part of the purpose of this text is to openly say what most people refrain from, I’m going to be deliberately blunt instead:

Black people suck.

I’m confident most people of any ethnicity who interacted with black ones at least a few times have, like me, had unpleasant experiences from doing so. But besides personal takes, there are also several genetic, sociological, cultural, historical and otherwise notorious facts that justify that blunt statement of mine (beyond any doubt, I’d say).

In that episode of Through the Wormhole I mentioned earlier (“Are We All Bigots?”), they presented an experiment in which researchers showed pictures of angry and happy people to human subjects and then measured these ones’ brains' responses. It was discovered that, when we see the image of an angry person, our brains detect hostility and “get on edge” (for lack of a more technical term). When we see a happy one, our brains “relax.” But when the person is black, the human brain detects hostility regardless of their demeanor. That means our brains are naturally programmed to recognize any black person as a hostile at all times – and that includes black people’s brains as well, as the results were the same for people of all ethnicities.

Some of us don’t feel any sexual attraction to black people. I know this about myself, and a friend once told me the same thing. That’s too small a pool to draw any statistical conclusion from, so I will just speak for myself: for me, looking at a naked black woman is like staring at a tree: my brain simply doesn’t respond to it; there’s no arousal whatsoever. I’m fine with white, Asian, Latin, Indian, Middle-Eastern women – a hot one is a hot one and my brain recognizes it, regardless of ethnicity or my personal opinions. Unless they are black.

Paired up, the two arguments I just provided lead to the conclusion that we are evolutionarily programmed to dislike black people. And the only logical explanation I can come up with for every human brain to have evolved throughout hundreds of thousands of years to behave this way is for black people to have been causing problems for everyone for a very long time.

Light-skinned people often blush when they feel ashamed. In some book, I read it is believed that the social purpose of that trait is to show our peers we know when we messed up and that we regret it. Although embarrassing, it generates empathy and shows others we do know the difference between right and wrong, and that we rue it when we fail to do the first. The blushing and ensuing embarrassment, though unpleasant on their own, have the positive consequence of making us more civilized since we try to avoid letting it happen (just like Asians in general avoid drinking, for the same reason). Black people don’t blush.

According to the United States Department of Justice, black people are 5.7 times more likely to be imprisoned than white ones5. That is, of course, in good part due to racial persecution by American police officers. But this defense is largely negated by the fact that Hispanics – who comprise a greater percentage of the American population than black people do, who are also “discriminated” against, and who are more inclined toward becoming gang members – are about 3 times less likely to be incarcerated than black people, indicating that simple racial bias is not the main issue. The main problem is the actual behavior of Afro-descendants.

We are all taught, in school, that white men enslaved African people. But that’s only a half-truth. According to Yuval Noah Harari, in Sapiens, the Africans actually enslaved themselves. They hunted and captured their own people (from rival tribes, I assume) and then took those captive to the Middle East slave markets, where the Europeans finally bought their slaves from. I’m not saying the part white people played in the slave trade was morally justifiable, but I don’t think we are the worst evil in that story. And it’s particularly strange that our history books omit this particular fact, because hiding it doesn’t help anyone.

I don’t need to tell you how any African country compares to other nations where the majority of the population has fair skin. Maybe the prevailing ethnicity of the population of every first-world country on Earth? Always light, though not necessarily white.

The average IQ of every single African country is also among the lowest on the planet6, averaging 70 or so (a rough estimate, as I didn’t do the actual math. The real number might be considerably lower) as a continent.

The human race, as the scientific evidence we have suggests, was born in Africa. This means that those living there have had 2.8 million years to develop (since the birth of the Homo genus). And they didn’t, while everyone else who left the continent eventually managed to, to a higher or lesser extent. This leads to the conclusion that what allowed the human race to progress past tribalism was precisely to get away from black people. Those among them who were better than the rest had to leave the continent to bring our species to the point where we stand today. Had they remained in Africa, doing so would probably have been impossible.

Circa 1914, European countries dominated about 90% of Africa. And then they all simply decided to cede control over it. Why? Because trying to do anything useful with it was a waste of time.

Have you ever seen a non-black person (other than Jews) accusing someone else of racism? I haven’t. Some of our laws were written specifically for them (and similar ones for the Jews), and not for everyone, because most racial hatred is directed towards black people (and Jews, once again). And the only reasonable explanation I can come up with as to why that happens is for them (both) to have earned it. Thanks to our naiveté and stupidity, the fact that those people(s) have been antagonizing others ever since they exist has now led to them being rewarded instead of duly punished. Now, thanks to the laws the most gullible, corrupt, and/or ill-intentioned among our politicians have enacted, those people use racism not as a means to defend their legitimate rights, but as a shield that allows them to violate everyone else’s.

To me, all this evidence proves a point, the point is undeniable, and the ensuing conclusion inevitable: black people are the antithesis of human development. The African genes, culture, mentality and way of life lead to stagnation in very primitive conditions, barring life from ever fulfilling its purpose. (Black people born elsewhere do show some improvements though, thanks to cultural changes.)

I’m not saying we should go out killing every black person we see in front of us. That’s one way to go, yes, but there are some good people among them just as there are many bad ones among all other races, so doing that wouldn’t be fair or lead to the best results possible. What I’m saying is we should avoid giving black people any kind of advantage, undue encouragement or, least of all, power, because history has proven beyond any reasonable doubt that their innate way of doing things leads to ignorance, anarchy, famine, despair and desolation.

Also, for God’s sake, do not donate money to institutions begging for it to help sick and starving children in Africa. You didn’t condemn those kids to life, you are not the one to blame for their woes, and if you save two of them today we’ll all have twenty more begging us for help tomorrow. Donating anything to those people is an “investment” in extending and multiplying suffering – above all, their suffering.

White Trash

There aren’t many saints on this side of the rainbow either.

We, white men, have been killing and torturing ourselves and others for a very long time. Europe has gone through countless geopolitical reconfigurations due to all of its countries incessantly invading each other over the centuries; we were responsible for the crusades, the inquisition, two world wars (so far) and the Holocaust; we created despot kings, greedy bankers, monopolists, cartels, the mafia, Bernie Madoffs, Microsofts, NSAs, Epsteins, Jeff Bezoses, and countless other regrettable people, companies and institutions.

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