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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Would speciest have suited you better? Obviously trees dont know about our social construct of race

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I just want to know how trees have any kind of bias that isn’t directly related to their needs for survival and growth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

OP feels it, science better catch up with this and you'll see

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Calling it racism kind of downplays the massive amount of genocide associated with actual racism.

What you explained is more like nepotism, which is rampant among the animal kingdom and beyond.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Im going to avoid saying that in the future, lesson learned

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

In a lot of cases it could also just be self preservation, a lot of these networks are basically nodes of a single organism which has reproduced through cloning for the express purpose of achieving these more extended intertwined root systems to have a wider range to pull water and nutrients from.

The world's largest organism is one of these tree to tree networks.