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So now we are chasing down comedians for offensive jokes and skits (Trevor Noah, Dan Harmon)... pathetic.
https://twitter.com/mjbsp/status/1021758400462381056
Quote from: sys on July 25, 2018, 10:54:20 AMhttps://twitter.com/mjbsp/status/1021758400462381056it's only a negative outcome if it comes at the expense of the effort to promote equality and reduce bias, otherwise it's just a fact. you can recognize that the idea of race as a social construct is complete garbage and still love your fellow man.
I thought everyone agreed race is an immutable characteristic. Like, isn't that why racial discrimination is so bad compared to other forms of discrimination?
In 1890, the state of Louisiana passed the Separate Car Act, which required separate accommodations for blacks and whites on railroads, including separate railway cars.[6] Concerned, a group of prominent black, creole, and white New Orleans residents formed the Comité des Citoyens (Committee of Citizens) dedicated to repeal the law or fight its effect.[7] They persuaded Homer Plessy, a man of mixed race, to participate in an orchestrated test case. Plessy was born a free man and was an "octoroon" (of seven-eighths European descent and one-eighth African descent). However, under Louisiana law, he was classified as black, and thus required to sit in the "colored" car.[8]
Quote from: bubbles4ksu on July 25, 2018, 11:34:24 AMQuote from: sys on July 25, 2018, 10:54:20 AMhttps://twitter.com/mjbsp/status/1021758400462381056it's only a negative outcome if it comes at the expense of the effort to promote equality and reduce bias, otherwise it's just a fact. you can recognize that the idea of race as a social construct is complete garbage and still love your fellow man.What race is Barack Obama?
Quote from: Kat Kid on July 25, 2018, 12:57:58 PMQuote from: bubbles4ksu on July 25, 2018, 11:34:24 AMQuote from: sys on July 25, 2018, 10:54:20 AMhttps://twitter.com/mjbsp/status/1021758400462381056it's only a negative outcome if it comes at the expense of the effort to promote equality and reduce bias, otherwise it's just a fact. you can recognize that the idea of race as a social construct is complete garbage and still love your fellow man.What race is Barack Obama?whatever his 23&me says. any more brain busters?
Quote from: bubbles4ksu on July 25, 2018, 01:41:16 PMQuote from: Kat Kid on July 25, 2018, 12:57:58 PMQuote from: bubbles4ksu on July 25, 2018, 11:34:24 AMQuote from: sys on July 25, 2018, 10:54:20 AMhttps://twitter.com/mjbsp/status/1021758400462381056it's only a negative outcome if it comes at the expense of the effort to promote equality and reduce bias, otherwise it's just a fact. you can recognize that the idea of race as a social construct is complete garbage and still love your fellow man.What race is Barack Obama?whatever his 23&me says. any more brain busters?lol, 23 and me doesn't have a "race" test you goof.
We're colored people, and we live in a tainted placeWe're colored people, and they call us the human race
https://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/1023234925737267203
Quote from: sys on July 28, 2018, 03:09:26 PMhttps://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/1023234925737267203I liked that article
Quote from: michigancat on July 28, 2018, 04:16:15 PMQuote from: sys on July 28, 2018, 03:09:26 PMhttps://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/1023234925737267203I liked that articleYes. Interesting article.I think identity politics are bad because identity politics devalue individuals' agency and leads to more division based on race, which I view as arbitrary. I think the biases that encourage identity politics are bad for the same reasons. If the response to racial bias is more racial bias, I don't think that helps anything. I also think the twitter polls at issue in the article are a little silly. I think a possible (and imo, the proper) response to demographic shits is to be neutral about them.
Quote from: michigancat on July 28, 2018, 04:16:15 PMQuote from: sys on July 28, 2018, 03:09:26 PMhttps://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/1023234925737267203I liked that articleYes. Interesting article.I think identity politics are bad because identity politics devalue individuals' agency and lead to more division based on race, which I view as arbitrary. I think the biases that encourage identity politics are bad for the same reasons (e.g. white racists). If the response to racial bias is more racial bias, I don't think that helps anything. I also think the twitter polls at issue in the article are a little silly. I think a possible (and imo, the proper) response to demographic shits is to be neutral about them.
White men bridle at the notion of being part of a tribe or engaging in identity politics. (Ahem.) Alone among social groups, they are allowed the illusion that they have only their own bespoke identity, that they are pure freethinkers, citizens, unburdened and uninfluenced by collective baggage (unique and precious “snowflakes,” if you will).No one else is allowed to think that — at least not for long, before they are reminded again that they are, in the eyes of their country, little more than their identity, their asterisk. No one else gets to pretend their politics are free of identity.