I can see your point as you tell; and agree.LuckyR wrote: ↑August 10th, 2021, 2:52 amI apologize for being difficult to understand. I do acknowledge that competition exists. However competition exists for the excellent and the incompetent. As it happens the excellent are... well, excellent. They're happy being excellent, in fact they try to be thought of as even more excellent by being magnanimous towards the downtrodden.mystery wrote: ↑August 9th, 2021, 11:51 pmEveryone wants to be better than average = competition.LuckyR wrote: ↑August 9th, 2021, 6:48 pmYou are right about cooperation and altruism. Problem is, it is untrue that racism stems from competition (per se). Rather racism stems from insecurity/inferiority. Everyone wants to be better than average. Problem is only 50% are. For the other 50%, their options are improving themselves or bring others down. Not everyone can bring themselves up.Sculptor1 wrote: ↑August 9th, 2021, 4:50 am
And so is co-operation, and altruism.
And multiple ways exist to integrate and accomodate such as kindness and generosity.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean buy this, but it is an overused phrase.
I think I know what it means, and it is clear that it is not a zero sum world at all. If it was we'd all still be living in the trees. Co-operation is additive. It's a plus sum world, and that is how humans managed to leave Africa and colonise the entire globe.
Discrimination is not whooly genetic. It is mostly cultural. You have been brought uo with negative images of "young black males" every night on TV shooting, looting, and robbing. The real criminals wear smart suits and steal billions, are usually white, and they own the TV channel so you see less abou them though they do more harm.
Racism is self fulfilling, one level of prejudice leads to another- YBM have fewer job opportunities because of negative propoganda and this means that their options are fewer, crime becomes a good option, and the circle closes. holding views as you do, that discrimination is inevitable is also self fulfilling.
I do not understand what this means, or what you are talking about.
Ditto.
I don't see how you tell competition is untrue and then define competition as the issue.
The incompetent OTOH want to be excellent, yet they aren't. For some it's not a big deal, but for many they feel an inferiority complex about it and soothe their fragile egos by declaring that they at least superior to these bunch of "fill in the blank with a different race".
It's not the desire to be great, it's the inability to handle that you aren't great.
it's always fun to see one of the downtrodden rise and then become excellent instead of incompetent.
Often even the excellent are accused of this ISM sin, only because they are of the same race as the incompetent. At the same time often the risen downtrodden will also be grouped in with the other excellent and accused even if they are the same race as the accuser. it's crazy sometimes.
I value men for the codes of life that they demonstrate as to what they do. Incompetence exists in every race, it's a human thing.
More than once I have been accused of race or gender ism. When I was being fair and objective and not giving any slack to the complainer. If they want first place prize must win or be the best at whatever... No handicap points were given. By doing that others usually will also accept the decisions.