Racism

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[–]StillLessons 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The remarkable potential of a site like this lies in the conversation one level above the slurs people like to throw around because they can.

Only in an environment where people are allowed to consider such speech as acceptable does the broader question appear: What if the concepts that "all races can live together in harmony in a society" and "our similarities dwarf our differences" are wrong? This is a huge and important question. These premises are now so deeply ingrained in our society that they represent doctrine. To question whether all races are equally capable of living within the structure as it is constituted is considered Heresy in the modern intellectual environment. But what if the doctrine is wrong and has been since WWII?

Has western society benefited from this doctrine? Do we believe that today's society is more or less functional than the society pre-WWII, when racism was still roughly acceptable?

How many are willing to approach these questions with an open mind?

The mud-slinging names are brainless, I'll grant you. But there are deeper questions behind them that have been suppressed for decades. The debate was defined as "over", but is our society demonstrating that ending it as we did was in fact a large mistake rather than the universal "progress" the 90+% of the intellectual class accepts it as?

[–]Death_By_Democracy[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Again - there's nothing here I can disagree with. But any debate about the big questions can only happen when there is a space to discuss it without hinderance or attack. Sadly, I suspect no sensible debate can happen here without the danger of the participants getting attacked or the discussion getting hijacked or trolled out of existence.

[–]StillLessons 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The internet is what it is. The best we can do is ignore the mindless junk that floats around and try to engage with people who are actually saying something. Censorship is absolutely not the answer, because nobody is sufficiently wise to know the correct line at which to engage the red pen. It always - every time - ends up representing straight up political repression. The idea of just stopping "misinformation" is itself propaganda and has been used by every propaganda apparatus throughout history. It is as old as large-scale civilizations themselves.

[–]Death_By_Democracy[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Again - I don't disagree with you. I've been banned from Reddit, Facebook and Twitter for holding the wrong opinions, so I totally get it. But to be honest, my first few days here haven't been a great experience. The racism of some just doesn't do it for me. I saw someone last week whining on about Jews not being human. It sucks, and I totally get that a lot of people will stick their nose in here, see something like that and walk away.