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> teaching them that their race makes them inherently less suited for certain tasks? No. You're confusing group outcomes with individual ones. To avoid the em
by exporectomy 5y ago
> teaching them that their race makes them inherently less suited for certain tasks?
No. You're confusing group outcomes with individual ones.
To avoid the emotion of racism, you can look at all Americans instead. Average income in the US is $30,000/year. Is it wrong to teach that to kids? No. Does it cause them to fatalistically assume they can't earn more than that because they're unlucky to be American? No. Each individual kid might not be one of the destined-for-low-wages people.
- danShumway 5y ago> No. You're confusing group outcomes with individual ones. This is a weird kind of selectivity. You weren't making this argument when OP claimed that teaching about systemic racism would be fatalistic. You were perfectly fine with the conflation between group outcomes and individual outcomes on that front. So why the sudden change in heart?