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Not everyone has equal abilities. Societies function best when they are set up to find a place for everyone in a color blind way where they can live up to thei

Not everyone has equal abilities. Societies function best when they are set up to find a place for everyone in a color blind way where they can live up to their full potential doing whatever they're adequately capable to do to contribute to society. On these boards many people believe all members of a given race have the qualities of their worst members. I try and dissuade them from this by showing many counterexamples and that they should really focus on convincing all member of society to call out bad behavior in whatever groups they associate and have influence with to improve society. My beef with progressives is there is too much special treatment given to ones own group just because they belong to that group by virtue of their birth and this allows bad behavior to go unpunished and uncondemed.

bdhe 8y ago
> and this allows bad behavior to go unpunished and uncondemed. This is interesting, I haven't quite heard this before. What examples of bad behavior go unpunished or un-condemned beacuse of special treatment to a minority group?
- narrator 8y ago
  A minority female music performer recently bragged about drugging and robbing men [1]. If a white man did this, his career and freedom would be over, but since she's a minority woman she may get a pass. Other minority women should call her out and criticize her and demand that she be brought to justice, and many conservative ones do, but there's a risk of the whole thing just blowing over because certain members of her affiliated groups are willing to give her a pass because of "her circumstances." [1] http://archive.fo/gzsKg http://archive.fo/gzsKg
  - rexpop 8y ago
    No white man has ever been a black sex worker. Robbing johns is heroic. Edit: Upon re-reading your comment, I realize you give no account to such things as "circumstances," which means you're no empiricist. If circumstances count for nothing in your estimation, under what framework do you pass judgement?

bdhe 8y ago

> and this allows bad behavior to go unpunished and uncondemed. This is interesting, I haven't quite heard this before. What examples of bad behavior go unpunished or un-condemned beacuse of special treatment to a minority group?

narrator 8y ago
A minority female music performer recently bragged about drugging and robbing men [1]. If a white man did this, his career and freedom would be over, but since she's a minority woman she may get a pass. Other minority women should call her out and criticize her and demand that she be brought to justice, and many conservative ones do, but there's a risk of the whole thing just blowing over because certain members of her affiliated groups are willing to give her a pass because of "her circumstances." [1] http://archive.fo/gzsKg http://archive.fo/gzsKg
- rexpop 8y ago
  No white man has ever been a black sex worker. Robbing johns is heroic. Edit: Upon re-reading your comment, I realize you give no account to such things as "circumstances," which means you're no empiricist. If circumstances count for nothing in your estimation, under what framework do you pass judgement?