Reply #23: There was an experiment where the teacher

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divided up the class on the basis of eye color, and pretty soon those with the "superior" eye color were acting terribly towards the ones with the "inferior" eye color. The problem is the us/them dichotomy, and putting people on teams. In order to recognize, in the heat of a game, who is on your team and who is on the other team, teams need to have different uniforms. That's EXACTLY what patriarchy does in assigning gender roles based on sex. Every infant is dressed in pink or in blue. That people ever manage to relate to those of the "opposite" sex as people, despite having grown up on opposite teams, is the miracle of love--and extremely rare. Although schools may not specifically teach hate, they do require conformance to gender roles, thus fostering the us/them mentality which is necessary for hate. Once you can think of any other group of people, without getting to know them, as "them," you are cannon fodder and need only be processed.