Why do American blacks, Hispanics, whites, yellows, and Jews today have such widely divergent social and economic statuses? Because they're widely divergent in their natures, nurtures, and free wills. Because they're widely divergent in their genetics, upbringings, and moral choices. However universally and fanatically virtually all "good" people today evade and deny these obvious truths, this is the cause of virtually all of today’s group disparities.
It is not due to "hidden", "secret", "institutional", "cultural", or "systemic" racism. Not unless you want to consider the past 60 years of mindless, soulless, social demonization and legal persecution fo whites, yellows, and Jews – which no-one does. But such abuse of truly good people, along with absurd Hispanic and black supremacism, directly and indirectly harms everyone.
Right-wing conservatives and left-wing progressives are both drop-dead convinced that they can advance the brotherhood of man and social harmony by lying thru their teeth. They've assiduously brainwashed themselves into this cockamamie theory. Conservatives and progressives see explicit and clear statements about human nature, nurture, and volition as the high road to societal disaster. They're terrorized by even tiny amounts of open discussion and honest debate about group differences, lest a bit of truth seep out, and society experience a new Firebombing of Dresden. Thus conservatives and progressives are militant advocates of cover-up and fraud on almost all aspects of race and ethnicity, especially the progressives.
Meanwhile, today's helpless, impotent, and pathetic Objectivists and libertarians virtually all claim that any discussion or debate of the relevant issues constitutes "collectivism", "tribalism", and "racism". Their intellectual cowardice and dishonesty are marvels to behold. Their stupidity and depravity defy description.
America today needs truth. But who has any to offer?
“Hasidic supremacy”?! As far as I can tell, the Hasidim mostly just do their own thing and stay to themselves, kind of like the Amish except they use telephones and electricity. They don’t riot, push theories about “Gentile privilege,” mount “Hasidic Lives Matter” scams, demand national holidays, seek reparations, or push for affirmative action programs and laws for themselves. They’re about as far from supremacists as you can get.
ReplyDeleteEMB -- Nothing like Hasidic supremacy is discussed in that mini-essay.
Delete"Objectivists .... virtually all claim that any discussion or debate of the relevant issues constitutes "collectivism", "tribalism", and "racism"." is a lie. Objectivists clearly do NOT do what you claim.
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DeleteRK -- My experience is the exact opposite. Virtually every time I gingerly mention differences between the races and sexes I'm told that not only am I wrong, it's evil to even discuss them.
DeleteExtremely hard to believe you. What was the context, what did you exactly say? Make sure you don't confuse freedom to honestly pursue what you can be with the few things that are different thus the individual deals with - NOT 'culture' which does not come from genetics. For example, someone of black African genetics may be more concerned about sickle cell disease than whitey me, in considering medical care. Females are a target for sexual assault. East Asians probably have difficulty growing a bushy beard.
DeleteRK -- So if someone says evidence indicates blacks are naturally less intelligent than whites, Objectivists don't almost always call that observation racist, collectivist, and tribalist? Also false and evil?
DeleteAnd even tho you likely won't understand this, culture and morality ARE somewhat derived from genetics.
Your comment is is not understandable. What are you trying to say? You need an editor including to fix a typo.
DeleteObjectivists say it does not matter - only individuals do, free to achieve what they can with their life.
The statement may or may not be true - I'd want to review data collection methods, especially IQ tests which may depend on basic awareness.
You are obviously NOT an Objectivist.
ReplyDeleteRK -- But I am. A really strong and good one. I'm a philosophical and rational Objectivist, not a religious or cultist one. That's the only kind that's legitimate.
DeleteYou list everything but the kitchen sink as an attribute, sounding exaggerated, I see ones that eliminate others especially Objectivist. You should practice communicating clearly and thinking logically. Or are you an AIChatbotch? ;-)
DeleteI reject the notion of a religious objectivist. 'Cultist' is a common smear, I've never met one, I do see irrational people falsely claiming to be objectivist such as a bunch in South Korea.
DeleteRK -- You call yourself rational, but you don't offer much rational evidence for your claims. You also sound like every other Objectivist cultist I've ever met for 45 years now. If you say religious Objectivism doesn't exist, then you reject the views of Rand, Branden, Peikoff, and Kelley. Since the 1960s this phenomenon and evil has been apparent to all -- except the cultists themselves.
DeleteYour comment is trash, insulting me with suppositions, lying about Rand, Kelly, and Peikoff. (Branden revealed in a talk that he clings to supernatural to some degree.)
DeleteClearly you are NOT objective, but misrepresent yourself.
Anonymous -- I'm certainly late replying to you, but I think I lost interest in this weak discussion, and so missed your comment of July 22, 2023. You write in a low-quality manner which doesn't much justify a reply and your anonymity indicates cowardice. Still, here's a quote from Ayn Rand which addresses some of these issues:
Delete"𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐨𝐠𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲. 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 -- 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐠𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐎𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥, 𝐬𝐨 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐲𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 “𝐎𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐭” 𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐎𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬, 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐲, 𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠."
--Ayn Rand, 1969, course on non-fiction writing