re: #174 Belafon

Based on what I’ve seen with young animals that get paired up with those from a different species (including humans), I would argue that while babies are not born with any prejudices, a survival trait quickly develops to recognize those around you as friendly. We all know that young children can quickly develop a sense of which group they belong to, not become unfriendly to those they aren’t used to. And that can get easily reinforced when they see parents react to certain people and groups negatively.

and when a culture, political and education system all confirm those biases, they grow pretty damn hard to budge.