Note: Before reading the following arguments, please understand that they are not what I believe. On Wednesdays, I deliberately argue for wrong ideas, challenging my listeners to call and defend the obvious right answer, which is usually far harder than one would expect. This is a summary of what Wacky Andrew will be arguing, not a representation of what real Andrew believes.~How sure are you that racism is a choice? Given its current highly disfavored status, surely there are lots of people who would rather not be racists, but can’t seem to help it.
~Racism is just an the logical extension of putting your family first. How else do you decide who to favor and exclude with your affections and your resources?
~With all the effort we’ve expended to stop it and failed, maybe we should just accept that racism is a normal human idea.
~Since racism proceeds from experience, trying to get people to not be at all racist is trying to get them to close their eyes and forget their experiences.
~Racism is just a larger version of stereotypes, and we all know that stereotypes must have some validity to them or they wouldn’t form in the first place.
~According to evolution, some species are more favored than others, and if humans all evolved either independently or else branched off over time, there is certainly reason to believe that some of the groups may have evolved further than other groups.
~Everyone is a little bit racist, and if you think you aren’t, you’re fooling yourself.
~Most people would rather work with and live with and socialize with people who talk like them, dress like them, and look like them. Is that so wrong?
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