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The "uncomfortable truth" (that black people are socially or intellectually inferior to white people) /is/ the established idea. We're only just now looking for
by beaconstudios 5y ago
The "uncomfortable truth" (that black people are socially or intellectually inferior to white people) /is/ the established idea. We're only just now looking for alternative explanations because it turns out black people are regular people too and can function perfectly well within our "superior white civilisation", assuming they're not too busy being lynched or pushed into ghettos.
White superiority (dare I say, white supremacy?) has only just become uncomfortable instead of the accepted truth, because the evidence points to other explanations, and we've recently noticed what racial ideology leads to. It is not those looking at material explanations and examining African culture and development that are dogmatically clinging to ideological explanations - it's those who still think that colonial propaganda and white savior mythology represent a disinterested examination of the evidence.
- edmcnulty101 5y ago
- beaconstudios 5y agoThis conversation has been done to death, there's no value to be had from racial ideology because it's been disproven for a long time. To be clear, this isn't a discussion - I'm trying to hand hold you into thinking about your positions. I have nothing to learn from the "race realist" position; I've seen the arguments for and against and it's really easily disproven. You may think that the "race realists" are holding onto the secret truth that's been suppressed by the woke postmodernist academics, but the reality is that you've fallen for some online conservative propaganda and the academics are just trying to find the truth.
- edmcnulty101 5y ago[flagged]
- beaconstudios 5y ago
- edmcnulty101 5y ago
- dang 5y agoYou can't do race war on HN, and we ban accounts that do. No more of this, please. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html