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“White” has nothing to do with it, but you can’t understand the argument because your intellectual toolbox has only two ideas in it: blank-slate cultural relati
by rayiner 4mo ago
“White” has nothing to do with it, but you can’t understand the argument because your intellectual toolbox has only two ideas in it: blank-slate cultural relativism, and Nazism. If it’s not one it must be the other. Thus, the only way you can explain a country like Bangladesh is to chalk its predicament up to exogenous factors that wouldn’t carry over in migration. And anyone who has a different view must be a Nazi, obviously.
- UncleMeat 4mo ago“These populations are simply worse people undeserving of any respect or kindness. Oh and they happen to have a consistent racial component.” George Wallace said this shit too.
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- rayiner 4mo agoIf you assume a dichotomy between blank-slate cultural relativism and nazism, then you’re correct that everyone who thinks 100,000 Bangladeshi immigrants is materially different than 100,000 Americans must hold that view solely due to skin-color prejudice. If you take it as axiomatic that America would have turned out materially identically if Bangladeshi settlers had been on the Mayflower rather than British Puritans, then yes, everyone who doesn’t agree with you in immigration is in fact a Nazi.
- UncleMeat 4mo agoI'm very sorry but you are simply not going to convince me that "wow this entire national population is just plain worse than this other population and if we let them in it'll ruin our country" is meaningfully distinct here. What I see here is agreement with Musk's odious beliefs and a desire to avoid mean names being used to describe these beliefs.