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[–]jet199 7 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 5 fun -  (6 children)

I'm a bit racist because I like walking the streets at night and I also like breathing.

Generalisation is a survival technique.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

It's funny how being wary of someone because of pattern recognition is racist when applied to a group like black people or Muslims, but absolutely vital when it comes to men or the police. I've never managed to get a coherent explanation about why one is bad and the other is good, beyond the equivalent of "fuck you, that's why."

[–]weavilsatemyface 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Probably for the same reason that parents teach their kids to be wary of strangers, when 90% of sexual abuse, rape and serious violence committed against children is done by their own family members.

[–]Dzonatan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

"Be wary of strangers" makes sense if you're in a densely populated high traffic enviourment where new people keep showing up.

[–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

"Be wary of strangers" makes sense if you're in a densely populated high traffic enviourment where new people keep showing up.

It really doesn't. If you live in a city, you live in a densely populated high traffic environment where new people keep showing up, and if you leave your basement and go out in public you're going to meet anything from dozens to hundreds of strangers every single day. I stepped out today for a little less than an hour and had close contact with about forty strangers. When I used to work in the CBD, I'd have close contact with about 500 strangers a day. And none of them were a danger to me.

We have evolved a fear of strangers because our instincts evolved during the stone age, a time when you would almost never meet any strangers at all, but if you did, they were probably going to compete violently with you and your family for resources (food and shelter).

There have been only four times I've felt genuinely threatened, twice were members of my family, once was a work mate, and once was a pair of drunks in a strip club who tried to pick a fight for no reason at all. If I wasn't hanging around strip clubs at 4am I never would have met that last pair of guys, but then little kiddies are rarely doing that.

[–]Dzonatan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You take what I said in wrong context.

When people say "Be way of strangers" they mean "Dont get too chummy with someone you barely know".