Yes my personal stance on racism is that people should be "colour blind" and there should be no racial distinction, and there should not be any exceptional treatment of any other race based on their race alone.
But racism is very much present around us, even today.
The most glaring flaw of racism is that there is no basis for racism! It's like saying all Republicans are stupid (many are, but there are many shrewd ones that exploit the stupid ones) or all Christians are fundamentalists or evangelists (many are, but there are also many peaceful and rational Christians out there), in other words, it's stereotyping.
But racism goes beyond stereotyping. Racism is stereotyping people based on their race, and feeling a sense of superiority and entitlement over other races, because of your own race, and that leads to despising the other races. And your contempt for these other races makes you treat them harshly compared to your own race or other races, or project hostility and animosity towards them due to their different race.
Racism is just a baseless ego problem that is like nationalism, but even worse. Racism makes people think they are better because they were born into a certain race. But these racists do not realise that it's all just luck and coincidence, you are not born into a "superior race" because you are better. And just because you are born into a "superior race", it does not make you automatically better as well.
Furthermore, there is nothing "superior" about your race, these physical differences between you and other races are just a result of natural selection. They might prove to give you an edge over other races for survival in the wild, and give you adaptability to the local climate and terrain, but when you are living in a modified environment, what "superiority" does that give you?
What really moulds a person is the way he led his life, his education, his life philosophy, his social upbringing, his political views, and perhaps his religious views. If a Chinese was raised in a Western country, he would fit in well with the Westerners, with the only difference being his physical attributes.
That is why Racism is funny: It's a sense of self entitlement and superiority of egoistical people that over-think an insignificant factor (race), and treat people who look different from them harshly. In fact, I think these people are just primitive humans that cannot accept people who are different from them, and they fear them, they do not understand the true concept of race, and judge people with their amazing ignorance!
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