Misogyny, sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc. and unconscious internalization.

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49. Ingrained bias is a

Perfectly reasonable and well defined species survival strategy. What we have the capacity to do as humans( some of us) is to engage our higher functioning above the base morality we all posess (aversion to lying, aviodance to homocidal behavior) to combat these biases. From that perspective, racial bias can be seen as subconscious but only to the extent that it fulfills a biological imperative. Our society is in a lull from an evolutionary perspective where this bias isn't needed but we just dont physically evolve that quickly.

On purpose.

We have a civilization shaking event, and our ingrained strategies are still there, ready to repopulate in the way we did originally, that bias becomes healthy again.

Pretty simple.