I am generally of the opinion it is not even tho there is value in honestly acknowledging certain problems to be overrepresented in certain demographics in order to understand why that may be.
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That’s a pretty strong statement. What is race if not a cultural institution?
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Are you remembering that we're talking about white people voting completely differently depending on whether they were evangelicals or not?
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In what way am I, a white atheist, responsible for the values of white evangelical Christians if I vote completely differently to them because I have completely different values?
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Wrong frame. No one is accusing you (or me, same description) of causing this. You’re essentially making the same argument as “my ancestors didn’t own slaves”.
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Then what are we arguing about? I thought your position was that this was a white problem and mine was that it has more to do with values than skin colour?
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It is an institutional problem. Race and religion are symptoms of those institutions, and can’t be viewed as exogenous factors. That is my position.
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Race isn't a symptom of institutions. Its the colour of your skin depending on which part of the world your ancestors came from. How does this relate to the fact that whether or not whites voted for Moore depended on their religion?
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Race categorization depends on society and its institutions.
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