You *do* know that every horrific oppression came with "reasonable" arguments at the time about how this was supposedly morally correct, right?
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Pro-slavery people argued that slavery was actually a benefit to the slaves, that slaves were intellectually inferior (with less advanced tech as proof), that freeing the slaves would be actually really cruel and damaging, as they just weren't built for an unguided life.
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Anti women's suffrage argued voting wouldn't actually help women as women weren't suffering, that women were "outside of politics" and thus a more unbiased source, that women are incapable of physically enforcing laws they might make, and that men earned votes by serving in war.
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Both of these arguments appeal to stuff like harm, rights, justice - all externalized, systematic reasons *divorced from the individual* about why they should be treated differently in culture, about how treating people at the level of groups is a *moral good*.
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So obviously the lesson from this is, be wary of arguments that call in systemic enforcement to justify treating people differently based on their group, *even if they appeal to important moral values that you share*, right?
....Right?
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Both actual racists and #criticalracetheory commit the mistake of using moral justification in this way, which is the same exact category of thought that led to slavery and the oppression of women for centuries.
It's just, right now CRT has much more sway over our culture.
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I'm just curious, but have you taken an ethics class? I feel like you might actually like it. I usually just do the work because I wanted a good grade.
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Yes yes... This is so good... Have you read any of Tom Holland books on history.. Feel like he is the most relevant author of our day...
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Yeah, but unlike the other 7 billion people alive today, and everyone who has lived for the past 10,000 years, my ideas are RIGHT and MORAL.
It's so obvious.
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when the foundation from witch these "intensions" are
delusion, paranoia and self pity... its bound to be mutually
reactive in a very negative way .