Why Racism is Illogical.

Many have tried to use logic to support racist thinking. In the 19th Century, racist ideology was seen as a rational defence for slavery. Racists have – and still do – use pseudoscience to support their theorising. Others see racism as merely a series of basic errors in thinking.

Non-racists all know that the visual appearance of a person does not identify what kind of person they are or how they will behave. There is no direct relationship between what a person looks like and who they are. A person who has dark skin is not innately different from or similar to any other person.

The idea that people who belong to the same cultural group, who look the same, are all the same is just nonsense; no one is ever the same as anyone else.

Yet racists believe that humans are grouped into distinct races with very similar abilities and behaviours that allow each group to be ranked against another. And a racist always believes that they are a member of the superior race; historically, there are no examples of evidence being put forward by race theorists that a race other than the one they belong to is superior.

Racism harms individuals because it singles them out for abuse and/ or attack based upon things about themselves that they cannot change. Just as it is not easy to change from black to white, it is not easy to change culture and belief. The aim of racial dominance is not social reform; it is simply dominance.

Racists base their self-image as superior on false thinking and are seen by non-racists as immoral because they deprive others of social safety. Racism is like any other irrational behaviour and it has developed distinct features because people are ashamed of acting alone in strange ways in public.

Racism is illogical because:

Genetic diversity is beneficial and reduces the presence of harmful mutations.

Cooperation between each other is better than tribalism.

Social concepts of race only roughly correspond to how groups are actually related.

There is no scientific proof that any 'race' of humans is inferior to any other in any way.

Prejudice is inherently irrational, since it involves forming oppinions without all relevant information.

The obvious gigantic reason why racism is irrational is that race is a social construct, so arguments about the genetic superiority of whatever race are pretty dumb.

At the end of the day, we are all human. Don't be racist. Help others, don't hate and your quality of life would improve drastically.