... "And in case you planned on escaping the charge of racism by remaining agnostic on the capital-gains tax, that won’t work either, because Kendi defines a racist as anyone who supports "a racist policy through their actions or inaction."'
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... "Kendi [was] convinced at one point that white people were literal aliens but later scaling down to the belief that they were 'simply a different breed of human.'" -- So he had a sane phase.
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... "'Capitalism is essentially racist,' Kendi proclaims, and 'racism is essentially capitalist.'" -- Okay, let's go with that.
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Replying to @Outsideness
It's funny to me how you have the same cosmology of these people but it's inverted into "but it's good actually"
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Yeah, well we've seen how well "Antiracists are the real racists!" worked.
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It's more to my general sense that your deistic GNON double-calvinism is just an affirmation of the same premises that ultimately created the "SJW" cosmology. We've seen how well "Let's go back to the Constitution" worked lol
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GNON: Causality is "God determines success/merit via Capital (material conditions reflect merit)" SJW: Inverse-- "Capital determines evil/sin via *success/merit* (material conditions reflect inverted merit) From "the rich are holy" to "the rich are unholy"
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I'm of the mindset that wealth lets you manifest your will at scale. Man might be able fund sustainable food production - or might use it to cover up a taste for pedarasty. Wealth as a heuristic for moral worthiness seems misguided to me. Sorry, Nick. Keep doing you.
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If you accept morality is an approximation of the game theoretic value of different behaviors and you accept that wealth creation is a good predictor for 'doing something right', then they are at least related.
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If you think Capitalism is a self-propelling system of incentives, however messily implemented, there's no other possible conclusion.
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... Calvinism can be quibbled with, but it obviously gets the basics right.
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... Signs of Election are the market mechanism saying "more of this please".
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