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Do you have documentation proving (beyond doubt) that racism is only a learned behavior? As an anthropology student I read so many textbooks that state otherwise, and I agree with their conclusions that racism is inherent in the "reptilian" human mind. If you don't know what that is, you need to do more reading.

It is actually part of the survival mechanism of us recognizing that we might be endangered by something unfamiliar to us. We DO have racist tendencies, all of us - including the tendency to call people "stupid" just for bringing up the idea of something new or challenging.

We like to think we're all above that, but in truth we're still very primitive in many ways.

A stupid thing is dismissing new information without considering it because of your own prejudices, you've just proven what I was saying, everyone has racism or phobia (and you certainly do).

I get it, I was banned from Reddit for saying that being progressive was a good thing. That was just dandy. I consider it a badge of honor to have pissed them off so royally.

Well of course, he or she would have to have a full time job and pay for their room and board, I'm not running a charity here.

I can see it now. "Whatever happened to that guy in the apartment up there who had the pet squid? Nobody's seen him in 15 weeks and something big is sloshing around in the dark up there."

I think most of that is true, (born in 1959 myself), but I'm not remembering them being such happy days. Maybe less well informed days would be a better way to put it; before we had instant news of every bad thing happening, we lived in a kind of blissful ignorance.

Everyone on earth is racist, make no mistake. It's hardwired into our brains to see other certain groups of people as lesser or less deserving. Maybe it's a holdover from primitive times, we're not that far out from having been cave-people, maybe being tribal was a way of protecting ourselves. At any rate, everyone has some racism and/or phobia about others inside themselves.

Some of us living now in states downwind from where they constantly did nuclear bomb testing in the 50s thru the 90s. We are what the government refers to as "expendable for the sake of research."

They are pretty cool creatures. Imagine if you were from some other planet, came here and saw an octopus for the first time (assuming you didn't have such things on your own planet). You'd not know if they were truly the intelligent rulers of the planet or not, but they sure would look very alien and scary.

At any rate, I've always wanted a pet squid. Though apparently I'd have to turn most of my living room in a giant aquarium with water recirculators.

Well I sure am glad I lived to see this day. Finally! I can cross off my bucket list, "see man eat spongebob stickers in alleyway." I can die in peace now.

It doesn't say I can't touch it with my whole body, if that's what they intended they should have printed it on there, then that would pretty much guarantee I'd do it anyway.

I feel the power surging through me, TOTAL CONTROL OF THE UNIVERSE IS WITHIN MY GRASP!

Or they could be tiny spiders! EEEEEEEK!!!

This just isn't a big deal to me - I'm not really invested in arguing about it, tbh.

Ahh well in that case, it makes perfect sense. I'll take 4000 shares.

Well it's been a good ride, I'm ready to go. Return my books to the library. Give my money to the cat.

Why does this sign COMPEL me to touch it so strongly. With every part of my body.

Funny how people keep bringing up Biden's age, in some countries in the mid-East he'd be seen as almost too young to be president. Almost. And anyway, even if he had died and was just a stuffed corpse, he'd still be doing better than most other presidents.

Maybe it's just something we say here in the west. "buffalo chips" instead of saying "sh#t." I think people used to say it more in the olden days.

You could use them that way, but it would be advisable to wear a clothes pin on your nostrils.

What a strange morning that was for everyone world-wide, I imagine. How weird that it would happen on your birthday!! I think we all were in shock, but I never did fully process it. I live in Utah, very far away from where it happened, and it was on a bright sunny morning and I was feeling pretty good, even though I was on my way to work.

At work everyone was in tears and that's when I realized the huge tragedy of it all. And felt the anger. But really, it was also a feeling of helplessness, what could you do, but sit and watch it all over and over again on the news. I still think I have never really processed my feelings about it -- I was kind of numb all day long and for months afterward.