You *do* know that every horrific oppression came with "reasonable" arguments at the time about how this was supposedly morally correct, right? Examples:
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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 threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Right.
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Your examples are all groups where being part of isn't a choice. Deriving that the same applies to any group,while disregarding the question if freely chosen or assigned by external factors,seems a little oversimplified?
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I am specifically referring to systemic enforcement - I am less convinced that individuals should be forbidden from using group information to make assumptions about members of those groups (chosen or unchosen) without more info.
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is there a lesson at all? people will say whatever they need to in order to justify whatever they want. the winner will retroactively have been right in either case.
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Examples of currently similar arguments?
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