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> Unless you think the racism and sexism is a key part of what enabled economic mobility and prosperity for others... It is an historical fact that women and m

> Unless you think the racism and sexism is a key part of what enabled economic mobility and prosperity for others... It is an historical fact that women and minorities were excluded and discriminated against in the 1800s, and that this was to the benefit of white men. https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/united-states-and-canada/us-history/gilded-age https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/united-states-and-canad... https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/the-chinese-exclusion-act/ https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/the-chinese-exclusi... https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/rock-springs-massacre https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/rock-springs-massacr... https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/historic-document-library/detail/mississippi-south-carolina-black-codes-1865 https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/historic-doc... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradwell_v._Illinois https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradwell_v._Illinois https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Contract_Labor_Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Contract_Labor_Law Instead of concerning yourself with other people and trying to guess their views so that you can criticize them, you should educate yourself.

foxglacier 1mo ago
It's easy to criticize other cultures through the lens of your own. If you're not a moral relativist, then find the best culture as your benchmark, not your own - you're not going to be magically lucky enough to live in the one morally right culture in history. Some of your own beliefs about right and wrong are going to be backwards - if you can't face up to that, stop being a cultural supremacist. Or accept that every culture does things that look bad to outsiders and that doesn't change the fact that they may have gilded ages - no matter how good social mobility is for black people today, it's still crap for chickens.

foxglacier 1mo ago

It's easy to criticize other cultures through the lens of your own. If you're not a moral relativist, then find the best culture as your benchmark, not your own - you're not going to be magically lucky enough to live in the one morally right culture in history. Some of your own beliefs about right and wrong are going to be backwards - if you can't face up to that, stop being a cultural supremacist. Or accept that every culture does things that look bad to outsiders and that doesn't change the fact that they may have gilded ages - no matter how good social mobility is for black people today, it's still crap for chickens.