Dana Mathewson observes:

There's a lot of racism in the world, and I don't see any cure for it. As long as you have people like Stacey Abrams around...

But the Left uses "racism" as an catch-all, and they've managed to make the word mean nothing anymore. As far as I'm concerned, as soon as they play the "race card" it means they've lost the argument.

Tim replies:

Agreed Dana.

Racism is the last refuge of those who lost an argument.

And it is ubiquitous and will probably always be with us. So is classism. There will always be blue collar types who sneer at the effete white collar people, or vice versa.

Humans divide into subgroups. It's just how we are. We still seek our "tribe". Nobody truly embraces all of Mankind. Mankind is an abstraction.

Dana, you may remember Isaac Asimov and the "zeroth law". (For those who do not know, Asimov wrote stories about robots who were governed by three laws, the first being "a robot may not harm a human being or through inaction allow one to be harmed".)

A couple of very high level robots (Daneel Olivaw and Giscard Revlentov) thought the laws imperfect and tried to reprogram themselves with the "zeroeth law" which said a robot may not harm MANKIND nor through inaction allow Mankind to come to har. It was good theory but in practice it didn't work so well; humanity is an abstraction. You can point at a single person, but you can't really point at humanity.

And as humans we will in the end look to our own interests and our friends interests over the collective. It's what is wrong with socialism.

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