OK, I need to have a thread about centrism coz I am being accused of it again in terms of doing 'both sides' stuff. I've said before why I don't think centrism (in the sense of taking a middle position on everything rather than finding your views somewhere near the middle) works.
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It will under certain circumstances, if the evidence is there- you can't prejudge it. I am not arguing for discrimination, only that your starting point is false and could be used against you.
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How is it false? I'm clearly not asking for people never to discriminate on the grounds of evidence.
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But you don't know what that evidence is. And to what it might relate to. You cannot start from a position of waiting for the evidence and at the same time denying any possible relationship that evidence might suggest to people with shared characteristics. It's disingenuous.
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I don't know what you mean. Obviously, we can't evaluate on evidence if we don't know what it is. But I am talking about not discriminating on the grounds of race, gender or sexuality but on evidence of unsuitability.
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Eg, in the most extreme difference we know of, it was found that no woman has ever passed strength & stamina requirements to be a marine. But not rejected on the grounds of being women but on not having the strength or stamina. If one day, a woman does, she should be accepted
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Yes the crucial aspect is to proceed in such a way as to give yourself the best possible chance of being able to detect new information when it turns up.
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How can you detect new information if you have already determined what that information is and means beforehand. E.G. racist/ sexist? It's empirical naivety.
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...slightly more qualified (for example, the white man had a 4.0 gpa as compared to the other person having a 3.1; or the white man had 7 years of prior experience while the other person had 4 years) who should be given the job, granted the interview portions were identical? 2/2
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I don't support positive discrimination.
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From the thread it would seem like you could go either way on the issue of affirmative action/positive discrimination (which is why I asked). But I also see that those views could be antithetical to an absolutist. Have you written anything further on your take of centrist views?
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See the section: The Centre cannot hold.https://areomagazine.com/2017/08/22/a-manifesto-against-the-enemies-of-modernity/ …
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Awesome! Thanks for the link. Btw the Dog Park thing was really funny. Good talking.
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I actually have a question based on this example. In America, a leftist talking point is that we need to give POC, women, and LGBT employment over white men. If a white man and a POC, woman, or LGBT person were to apply for the same job but the white man was... 1/2
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