Yeah, I know, and it’s sad (but not surprising) that it’s still true. I should read up about the larger context of that quote.

I personally believe with zero background knowledge that we’re just not evolved enough to have empathy beyond our physical sphere of influence. Like as an aggregate, unless we personal interact with another human, we seem to have no problem vilifying them. We seem to even be able to hate ppl who look exactly like us too, lol. Civil wars are so ridiculously common in history.

It’s like we tend to hate humans who look nothing like us or exactly like us, lol. Everything between that spectrum is acceptable.