Azeltir
17d ago
But is it really "self defeating" for progressives to not acknowledge (or not believe in) immutable negative effects? The mutable ones are plenty bad, and they think those effects can be addressed with their preferred policies. I'm not sure this is a sufficient argument against that.
Azeltir
17d ago
That seems tangential to what I'm saying - one can claim that the poverty, crime, etc. etc. are independent of intelligence. I agree that most progressives deny that disadvantaged groups have lower intelligence - but they do agree that they suffer from the above effects, and attribute that to social factors like racism and other biases.
Azeltir
17d ago
If you accept the institutional racism framework, various downstream effects must inevitably follow.
I don't really understand this: don't progressives loudly complain about a number of downstream effects? Poverty, crime, incarceration, lower educational attainment, drug usage - the same sorts of things that their opponents blame on their genetic character? I don't understand how "the racism has consequences" is defeating to the blank-slatists.
Bears are still pretty common foes in video games - including Baldur's Gate 3, where the "sexy bear" in question is an Elf druid, Halsin.
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