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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#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.Show this thread
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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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You should consider Taking Children Seriously. Just like women and slaves in the past, we need to view children as people who are able to create knowledge and deserve respect.
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This is not a sound argument. You can also say that any disastrous experiment was based on reasonable arguments about why it could work, and thus, we should not accept any motivation or rationalisation about why we should conduct any experiment whatsoever.
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"Bad guys also had arguments, so your arguments does not count" is not a very sound way to engage with what someone is saying.
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