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> Right, but these advantages and disadvantages are your own to exploit/bear just as much as your skin is. Wait... So your attitude on being born with dark ski
by shadowgovt 4y ago
> Right, but these advantages and disadvantages are your own to exploit/bear just as much as your skin is.
Wait... So your attitude on being born with dark skin carrying (entirely socially-crafted) disadvantages is "sucks to your luck?"
... Wow.
I hate to be blunt, but that's crap. I think I want no part of your concept of equality or of liberty, and I'm glad wise people in the past saw better than what you're putting on the table.
The liberty of the dice roll and the equality of a seat at the craps table.
What a limiting worldview.
- thegrimmest 4y agoheh, I think it's your worldview that's limiting, in that it presumes that your perspective is the right one, and seeks to impose it on other people. It's much less limiting to consider the vast plurality of perspectives out there in regards to how society should be structured, and who is entitled to what. In this spirit, what leads you to conclude that people's inherent genetic/biological traits are anything but fundamentally theirs?
- shadowgovt 4y agoIt's not relevant that those genetic traits are theirs; that's not the issue. the salient issue is that we treat people as inferior due to those traits because of some fairy stories we told ourselves to justify superiority in the past.
- thegrimmest 4y agoWe treat people differently for all sorts of reasons: attractiveness, age, height, sex, BMI, culture, ideology. Which of these is "acceptable" isn't something that I find reasonable to dictate to others.