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Sancheriv didn’t go south of Egypt.
There’s no commandment to heed a curse of Noach. His curse came true, that they were kidnapped and sold. It was a disgusting thing to do, and indefensible, but perhaps that’s from Noach’s curse.
Or perhaps not. Only Canaan was cursed, and there’s no reason to think that includes a third of humanity.
True scientific racism reached its peak in the Nazi era. People were always xenophobic but not as a racial doctrine.
Even if you happen to subscribe to a particular race-based idea, we’ve seen that it’s just not worth it.
You can’t enforce people to love others. Laws are designed for practical race-based discrimination, but past that you would depend on societal norms. You want people to ignore the small differences and begin to relate to others as humans. To this end, what can be done is to begin from education, which is anyhow government controlled, and the media can play a big role as well.
I believe that the racial divide, as much as it exists, got amplified under Obama, since he would relentlessly hammer these ideas. What you are doing is to cement the differences.
Media broadcasters aren’t really there to play any role. Whatever they feel gets people excited they’ll talk about. Therefore, I doubt they would be the first to take the necessary steps to reverse the crystallization of the racial boundaries.
And yes, I think the same when they yell about every anti-Semitic incident. All you so is alienate people. It causes people to ‘other’ you much much more. If there’s violence it must be dealt with, but to keep yelling about antisemitism only helps it become “a thing”.
I don’t know why I’m bothering to type all this up when the thread will likely just disappear and all is for naught.