Originally Posted by ItsTheSheppy
The drive to not be viewed as a social pariah is a strong evolutionary trait. It's hard for genes to be passed on, if those genes are riding in the body of someone everyone else thinks is an unlikable asshole. Deep down we all want to be accepted, so we can be fruitful members of the tribe and pass on genes. Very few of us actually desire to be friendless misanthropes.
Racism is socially unacceptable in wide portions of our modern society, so people don't want to be viewed as such because of, well, everything I said above.
Some people, of course, don't care. Much like how birth defects do happen and people can be born without arms, legs, eyes and so forth, personality defects do manifest as well. It's not a perfect system and from time to time examples arise that are 'broken'. There's a few of them in this thread, for example.
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Your tribal analogy is cute. But tribes of blue people generally don't like or trust tribes of red people.