Zombies and racism...
Since the outbreak I have seen a couple of suvivors who were known racists (known to me anyway) who have started to adopt a more open worldview involving people of different races and cultures. Do you think this is because we are involved in a us (the living) versus them (the dead) situation?
Tags: Racism
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Permalink Reply by Laz on -
Execute = whip them with barbed wire until they are a pile of flayed mush hehehe
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Permalink Reply by Wolfe4086 on -
Sadly without an external enemy (In this case zombies) mankind will always find an excuse to hate and try to murder each other. After the war is over and the zeds are back where they belong they will go right back to their old ways I am afraid.
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Permalink Reply by josh on -
ill have to agree with wolfe4086 that once the stenches were taken care of people would return to the old ways and wanna kill each other its just the way the human race is to stupid to relieze we need to stick together and think of each other as an equal
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Permalink Reply by Dave Mack on -
I would like to think that the very act of having to count on the living person next to you regardless of race or sex would eventually lead to an eye opening realazation that any kind of ISM is just a waste of energy . look at how many storys there are in sci-fi about an external force uniting the entire world to resist it , but on the other hand zombies don't care who you hate we all taste the same to them.
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Permalink Reply by The Bruin on
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I prefer to look at it as though I taste better to them than anyone else, this ensures greater vigilance on my part...lol
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Permalink Reply by J,M. on -
or conversely, it could exacerbate racism..or any other isims outhere
Religious groups could blame each other for the outbreak, It could be Rawanda in freaking Connecticut ... certain groups, KKK, La Raza, Black Panthers, whatever, could use the absolute lawlessness to kill their perceived enemies without problem...violence on a political scale even, small survivor groups could persecute former Republicans, or former Democrats (and EVERYbody would be gunning for Nader, lol j/k)
the point is, we don't know... human nature is a very fickle one, but when it all comes to it, we will ultimately revert to the bloodthirsty killers hardwired into our culture, heritage, and DNA
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The truth is, we all have prejudices. When I'm driving down the street and I see a bunch of Goth kids it makes my blood boil. Why? It makes no sense even to me. If I had Goth people come into my survivor group, I would watch them like hawks. On the other hand, if they denied me entry into their group, I would consider it another reason to dislike them.
On an intellectual level, I have no issue. In my gut though, I struggle. The thing is, it's easy to be a racist. It's easy to blame your problems on other people and make them the scapegoats for our own misgivings. It took me some time to figure it out, but I equate "Goth" with worshipping evil. I know it is silly and it's something my father kind of thrust on me. Ultimately, I have to agree with HD that difficult circumstances tend to create rifts more than they seal them up. If the reports I heard on the news are true about Katrina, there were survivors actually shooting at helicopters full of relief personnel and supplies as they flew overhead. I think that when the dust settles, people will make war for another reason, any reason.
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