Arminius
I don’t think that in the long run it can be good for our survival as human beings but only time will tell that.
I do think, sadly enough, that in a sense it is a natural occurrence in nature, human nature. or I wonder if it could actually exist otherwise.
Dog eat dog, the survival of the fittest, the so-called weak being over-powered by the so-called strong.
For example:
I would say that it could be all of the above for certain people, depending on the individual.
For some it would be about fear, for others greed, for others jealousy, for others a lack of knowledge and understanding about who certain people are.
For others, I can see it also as pure narcissism ~~ God forbid that others should exist, who do not look like us, act like us, think like us, dress like us, worship like us.
After all, we are the superior race, above all other races.
How would You define it?
Who is threatened by racism?
Oh, I would probably say foremost those who in the present moment are targeted with hate and violence.
Also, those who know and understand just how inhumane and animal like human beings can be toward each other. Perhaps threatened here may not be the right word to use but then again maybe it is.
What word would you use to describe the above people, Arminius?
Perhaps vigilant would work.
Any conscious aware person can be threatened by it, realizing how destructive it can be and how in a single moment after a process, rage and hate and tempers can flare up and before one even realizes it, there can be so many who can die, there can be such pain and loss.
We may not all feel threatened by racism because some of us do not observe or think about it much, many of us, we do not care much about what is going on around us, unless it touches us and our neck of the woods, we do not know our dark history, and could care less, we do not know and understand the darkness which is in us and is capable of repeating that dark history.