@anonymous-80702773 #94644
Sorry but no. Simply because something lies in your instinct does not make it right thing to do and conversely following your instincts can(and should in this case) very much lead you to be branded as a bigoted primitive.
Some people have no instincts you speak of and you do not get to force those assumptions upon them to begin with.
“A melting pot of cultures likely won’t happen”
Except where it is already happening and been for decades. I’d know since I happen to live in one and there are few words for how much I love every moment of this life..
“Even among leftists, there seem to be a lot of people who are for their own race and possibly against another race.”
Yes, tons of leftist people being racist, all around, so common in fact you can barely see them(there exist some outlying individuals, they are not the majority nor are they contributing to the overall ideals of the prog folks in general).
“like I have said, racism and xenophobia perhaps stem from territoriality.”
Not an excuse in the slightest for a sapient, empathetic species.
“there is much more behind it than you think.”
Not really, most people already are very much aware that racist, xenophobic views stem in most part from the territoriality and tribalism of a given individual, nihil novi here and again, does not excuse such views at any applicable level.
“There is much more to our nature than we think.”
You seem to be arguing for precisely the inverse of it.
“we can find out more about ourselves if we stop writing off certain behaviors or opinions as just being mean or something like that.”
Like that we’re all racists and xenophobes deep, deep inside? Gonna disappoint you here, I am afraid. No, at the very least I am not and I can tell you as much about at least several people I know rather well here.
Again nobody dismisses a harmful and possibly violent cretin as merely “mean” or at least they should not. We already understand what drives these views and behaviours, furthermore we already know that empathically we need to curb them with zero tolerance, should we want to engage in anything more civilized than defunct, tribal shitstates.
Simply because a clearly atavistic behaviour exists within a species does not make it excusable.