RE: Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
September 7, 2018 at 11:14 pm
(This post was last modified: September 7, 2018 at 11:29 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Since I'm still up and probably won't have time tomorrow:
I understand the dilemma you find yourself in. In your opposition to whatever it is you think sj or pc issues are, that end to which you levy the complaints referenced above, you feel that the contents of scientific racism are shouted down for purely social reasons. That this is another example of some assault on truth, as you've previously put it. If that were the case, then perhaps you could also convince yourself that the other contentions you've made are well informed but similarly shouted down.
This, however, is not the case. The reason that scientific racism was abandoned, was because it was wrong. It was unscientific. We once used race as a crude heuristic, but we've since learned that genetic variation is not fixed along racial lines. That genes move within and between populations, not within or between races. That it is a social, not biological, construct. That two white people can have less in common, genetically, than they both do with a third person who is black.
These contentions are not shouted down because of their ideological inconvenience any more than adding transgender people to a civil rights code is an assault on free speech, or any more than equality is the real racism, or a murderous doctrine. This, Benny, is the rhetoric of resentment and division. The identity politics you loathe but misattribute to those who oppose them. It is, cheifly, wrong..but just as importantly it is damaging in a real and palpable way. This, is why people shout that shit down..because it's been debunked, and continues to exist solely as a lever in politics and excuse for apathetic institutional policy.
I understand the dilemma you find yourself in. In your opposition to whatever it is you think sj or pc issues are, that end to which you levy the complaints referenced above, you feel that the contents of scientific racism are shouted down for purely social reasons. That this is another example of some assault on truth, as you've previously put it. If that were the case, then perhaps you could also convince yourself that the other contentions you've made are well informed but similarly shouted down.
This, however, is not the case. The reason that scientific racism was abandoned, was because it was wrong. It was unscientific. We once used race as a crude heuristic, but we've since learned that genetic variation is not fixed along racial lines. That genes move within and between populations, not within or between races. That it is a social, not biological, construct. That two white people can have less in common, genetically, than they both do with a third person who is black.
These contentions are not shouted down because of their ideological inconvenience any more than adding transgender people to a civil rights code is an assault on free speech, or any more than equality is the real racism, or a murderous doctrine. This, Benny, is the rhetoric of resentment and division. The identity politics you loathe but misattribute to those who oppose them. It is, cheifly, wrong..but just as importantly it is damaging in a real and palpable way. This, is why people shout that shit down..because it's been debunked, and continues to exist solely as a lever in politics and excuse for apathetic institutional policy.
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