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by Zetice 3y ago
Is your entire argument that racists come in multiple categories, and you think I'm failing to sufficiently differentiate between individual racist ideas?
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by Zetice 3y ago
My dude, he says they're worse . I don't think that's the rhetorical win you want here. I'm pulling back from that by equating them, taking a more moderate stance. But you're right, I shouldn't water dow
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by Zetice 3y ago
No, the "lab leak" theory is not so taboo that any serious scientist would throw out everything they know about the scientific process. You're acting as if a credible argument was made and shot down unjustly already, but
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by Zetice 3y ago
I'm not muddling anything, I'm equating them. They are equally as bad, the latter possibly worse. As MLK says in his "Letter from Birmingham Jail": > First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been
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by Zetice 3y ago
No, they don’t. There is literally zero biological concept of race, and the observations you’re referring to aren’t along “racial” lines that exist culturally. > Biologically valid races are not real, but cultural racism is, and we must
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by Zetice 3y ago
> You're arguing someone with implicit biases has the same effect on the world as one who proudly says Jim Crow-era lynchings were justified and slavery wasn't bad? Come on. I am not arguing anything, I’m observing. If you thi
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by Zetice 3y ago
Because it's not logical, that's why it's not "crystal fucking clear". You're spouting nonsense, nothing even remotely related to what you're talking about is at issue here, you're inventing problems
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by Zetice 3y ago
Nope, those are not real. There is no "population-wide genetic variation".
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by Zetice 3y ago
CRT is not reductionist, it's observational; the white/black oppressor/oppressed dichotomy is how racism has played out in the United States in the 20th and 21st century. To be blunt, the US didn't institutionally endors
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by Zetice 3y ago
The point is the impulse and the acceptance of the impulse has the same result, if it isn't acknowledged (glad you accept it's real). It's not dramatic, it's reality, but if you think it's dramatic, imagine someone
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by Zetice 3y ago
No, what? Literally no one has been fired for saying that alone, and if they have it was wrong and they deserve their job back. Do you , in fact, defend the policy of not firing someone from their job simply for saying, "I am a racis
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by Zetice 3y ago
No, you didn't show anything related to the dual definition of racism you claim I've given, and yes you are currently in denial that you have tribal impulses along racial lines.
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Yes, when everyone has the snap impulse regarding an "other" group along racial lines, they're flipping on their "racist" neon sign. Then, when they realize that's ridiculous and the result of every human&#x
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by Zetice 3y ago
> If there are observable differences between racial groups (not a contested fact I think?) Not a thing, and very much contested.
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Weird of you to say considering I defined it very clearly at the start of this discussion.
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It is like that, except there's no underlying "wavelength" to support the concept of race. It's just the word "blue" with nothing else.
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by Zetice 3y ago
Maybe, but you certainly don't know that going in, and the value of the occasional profound discovery more than covers for the dead ends.
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by Zetice 3y ago
The thing you have to remember is that race, as a social construct, only exists as a form of oppressive categorization. It's never, historically, been used as merely "identification" or whatever else categorization might be
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by Zetice 3y ago
For some clarity, the idea that "white people are evil" is completely wrong and just as racist as anything else we could think of (though if you look at history, substantially less consequential for white people). Anyone who thin
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by Zetice 3y ago
The presumption here is that "America is not a racist country" is a racist statement on its own. Nobody is claiming it is. The problem arises in what that statement does for the racists in America; it legitimizes their behavior,
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by Zetice 3y ago
No, "anti-racist" is not just another term for "racist". It literally says the exact opposite. > A racist idea is any idea that suggests one racial group is inferior to or superior to another racial group in any wa
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by Zetice 3y ago
Unfortunately, the racists got there first with their "one drop" policies. As is usually the case, it's the discriminators that set the stage, and the rest of us who have to act out the play.
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by Zetice 3y ago
You have failed to successfully account for your bias in this conversation. This illustrates your limited skills as a critical thinker. Who I am, what I stand for, does not matter. These are facts, and you'll either accept this reali
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by Zetice 3y ago
Sure; for one thing, there is no biological concept of race. So we should only be talking about ethnicity and cultures, and not about "race" at all, as it isn't a term with meaning.
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by Zetice 3y ago
You're close, but meaningfully off (unsurprisingly). I have categorized you as someone who has a substantially inflated sense of their capabilities, but when faced with any kind of challenge to that belief they wilt magnificently, us
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by Zetice 3y ago
I never understand why folks who have bad individual experiences end up extrapolating that experience to represent an entire area (field, subject, industry etc.). Or to put it another way, I understand the impulse, buy why not self reflect
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by Zetice 3y ago
You may think "critically" a great deal, but it's clear to me you don't know how to do it well, as source selection is a substantial part of successful analysis. For example, you believe "whole life experience"
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by Zetice 3y ago
It wasn't good sarcasm. There are published and highly cited papers people can read to learn more about what I am saying (and how what you're saying is nonsense). I am stunned sometimes when I discover how completely unaware
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by Zetice 3y ago
Weren't we told over and over again that cooler-than-normal years don't disprove climate change? Wouldn't that logic also apply here, that hotter-than-normal years don't individually demonstrate anything? Sure, climate c
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by Zetice 3y ago
There have absolutely been published and cited papers in this conversation (I cited one and then cited a book with literally hundreds more), the fact that you don't realize that should make it clear to anyone left reading this what&#x2

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