Washington Post
May 15, 2013
Max Fisher
It used the question surrounding individual preferences for a neighbor of a certain race as the barometer.
I am sorry to say India is the most racist country, by this metric. I have gotten lots of pushback, by literally 100 different people (about 70 different conversations) when I say India is probably the most enlightened country in the world. And about 65 of the 70 conversations, that gave me the pushback, were from African Americans who quickly bring up the cast system.
(I will skip my response to the attacks on India as racist, but I have lots of arguments that show why Ghandi and India are the most tolerant of freedom for people of all races to live anywhere they want)
I want to get back to the thread title:
I always tell people that I am hypothetically racist, and it has to do with my fringe belief in rapid evolution, for one thing. The ethical vegetarians are more ethical than the rest, and once a population of vegetarians grows, in one concentrated place, then their geographic race is on the path to superiority over the places that have barely begun the transformation. And I do feel that there is a biological thing going on. But heredity at the mind level comes first, and I am not sure if there is a non biological function going on. And I dont mean social transmission.
(I have never gotten pushback from African Americans on this view, so it seems to bother them little. But there is an understanding that the fact of evolutionary forces operating ensures there are going to be many, more minor, racial differences that clearly go beyond simply being a "social construct")
Christopher Hitchens, in Hitch-22, ridiculed many liberal professors who said, "You know, race is really just a social construct". He quickly dismissed them with a few choice lines.
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