Can people with face-blindness be racist?

[ThoughtArtist]

Or rephrased, could one show in-group preferences (based on visual appearance) if all faces of all groups equally generic? Could one use faces to even determine a "group" at that point. Would the color have ANY meaning at that point?

Discuss....

[noisyturtle]

People with face blindness have issues connecting visuals with their memory, they can see faces but can't remember who they belong to. So they can plainly see race just as anyone else can. A lot of people try to associate someone's voice or other feature like weird hair and even race which can help to trigger the memory of who they are talking to, so if anything being a minority would likely help someone with prosopagnosia remember who you are.

[tp4tissue]

Racism is pretty broad.

There's the innate kin-selective aspect , where one biological line selects for similar traits


Then there's the Cognitive side, which functions more like a protective trade-policy.


Racism is not without base/utility, it's just not good policy, as it does not fully utilize competitive advantage..



Because of how bad things got in the days (before) nuclear weapons,  people thought they COULD WIN a global war.. So they utilized Racism as a background foreign policy.

They tried a bunch of times..   Eventually, the big weapons were invented, and world peace was achieved.

[Blaise170]

world peace was achieved

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[SBJ]

After reading the post headline all I could think of was:

[rowdy]

There's No Such Thing as Race... Or Is There?

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4546