AJ Spitz on where racism starts
The starting point of racism isn't biology. AJ Spitz pins it on what gets learned, and the evidence sits right there in how kids treat each other before anyone hands them a script. "Just look at how children interact. That tells you everything you were taught." Ben (iambenleavitt) is the case study: he came up surrounded by kids from all sorts of backgrounds, and race simply never entered the conversation at home. Not because it was avoided. Because nobody had raised it. That gap is the whole argument.
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I was really lucky where when I grew up, I was just, we were in like such a melting pot of a city where it just wasn't even part of an equation. And it really does show you, living through that, showed me that like racism is a thing that's taught. Because when we were all just there and no one had told us that there was any differences, like that wasn't even something that was discussed or even thought about as a concept. Like it was definitely something that's planted in people's heads. Absolutely. Just look at how children interact. That tells you everything you were taught. You just observed kids. they're like damn even beyond racism just like literally everything if you enjoyed this be sure to hit that like button and follow to stay up to date with what's going on in the world and everything else memes and markets peace
