RE: Peterson's 12 Rules for Life v2.0-- actual book discussion
September 28, 2018 at 8:05 pm
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2018 at 8:14 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 28, 2018 at 7:54 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Every organized group of humans (and lobsters, OMG the OP it LIVES!!!) will form a power hierarchy
They will, but this is no excuse for the institution of structural racism as expressed by white privilege, for example. It's just flat out stating that people are prone to do shit like this. Yeah, no shit, that's why white privilege exists. The group at the top of the power hierarchy has amassed a set of tangible benefits conferred by identification with their group. Not by merit, not by earning it, not by having enough money. Identification with their group.
Saying "it happens, it's natural" is not a defense or a justification or an explanation. Yes, we know it happens. Christ. It doesn't have to, it doesn't fit our values, and the fact that power hierarchies arise doesn't say anything about how we should seek to arrange them when they do. I think that you and I can both agree that when a power hierarchy is explicitly and structural racist, shit has gone awry and needs to be fixed. What's not helpful, are wheedling excuses by way of lobsters and pretending they don't exist but are simultaneously natural.
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