When I post stuff like this, it often gets ignored. My most recent posting along these lines was shot down, apparently because the source was seen as non-progressive.

Meanwhile, any post that says, 'they all are just racist" gets a chorus of agreement.

So, I think the first person each of us needs to fix is ourselves.

May your post have better luck than mine.

the deep anger people feel about Trump, the GOP and their base. When you are angry it is about fighting for your ground. Not sober reflection on the nature of humanity. So I well understand why threads like my own might sink. It will not stop me from posting threads that speak to me, a Canadian, and thus a little more removed from this traumatic time in us politics. All we can bring to the fight us ourselves. And i believe if all of us bring it..we will win.

That explains why I almost voted for Trump in 2016, until I stopped and did some tricky mental calculations to jolt my brain back into modern, human big brain complex thinking mode. Phew! Thanks for the reminder, Vox!

News cartoons of colonized people's were all the rage everywhere. Canada's favourite politician, the father of our social programs in the 1960s and 1970s in Canada, Tommy Douglass, did his PhD thesis on Eugenics. Woodrow Wilson showed 'Birth of the Nation' at the White House. It was not so long ago that the vast majority of us were outright racists.

is somehow evidence of Vox's article about puny animalistic brains having never really evolved much? Vox is impressed by the kind of science that sees white as the default, and therefore these claims are sufficient evidence of biological and historical norms. I'm not convinced.

But somehow evolved so that in practice it only works in white people's favor. Huh, what a neat evolutionary trick!

having to leave paradise. Again and again the ancestors of 'white people' moved north. Then they turned to having white skin. They had left beautiful lush territory that is now the Sahara and the middle east. They left the beautuful savannahs of africa. They left the lush civilization of old Iran. They left india. They left the stepps of asia. They left and left and left. Some even left the beautiful mediterranean.They were not always the bullies of the world. They are not now for the most part. Things come in waves. There is a wave of racism being ginned up in the USA and elsewhere. It happens to be white people today. Fact is people can be good or bad. Most people are a bit of both. We forget this at our peril. If you think you are all good you have a vulnerability to falling in with a cult. That is where Trump's base is.