Isn't racism just ignorance of the fact that others are just like us?
I don't really see why this particular example contradicts what the Stoics believed.
We could say that racism as an idea rose out of the need for the self-preservation of one's kin, by rejecting those who do not look like us out of a belief that they are somehow inferior.
Yet, nature teaches us that we're all basically made the same and that mixing our DNA with other groups actually strengthen our kin's chances of survival.
Looks to me that racism arose out of an 'ignorance of the reason in nature', and we ended up believing something that is the opposite of what we should strive for.
We could say that racism as an idea rose out of the need for the self-preservation of one's kin, by rejecting those who do not look like us out of a belief that they are somehow inferior.
Yet, nature teaches us that we're all basically made the same and that mixing our DNA with other groups actually strengthen our kin's chances of survival.
Looks to me that racism arose out of an 'ignorance of the reason in nature', and we ended up believing something that is the opposite of what we should strive for.