perhaps that will allow us to achieve parity, fairness, etc., without the total upheaval of society that would be necessary...
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for divergent traits to have equal value. And this takes us back to my first bit about the history and context of ideas.
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the history and context of ideas, and the behaviors that history and context have inspired, are so powerful that they can...
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in themselves, account for the discrepancies we see in behavior. So our real goal ought to be dismantling those ideas in the culture...
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not teaching, in our example, blacks that we are more physical and whites that they are more mental. Get some Urkels and some Homer SImpsons
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on TV to defy the stereotypes. And in fact, given that these ideas have been used to cause HORRIBLE pain and suffering for centuries...
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maybe we don't TOTALLY outlaw anybody suggesting that blacks are more physical and whites more mental... but we definitely are VERY careful
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in how we deploy those ideas. After all, there are a great many tiki-torch wielding people who would love an intellectual excuse...
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to reactivate their ideology of supremacy. (Plus in the case of race it's not true and race is a social construct and there's more genetic
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diversity within races than between races blah blah blah, but there's more argument on the gender side).
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OK. So that is a lot of words, but hopefully some of it made sense? This is just the blk ppl part, I want to flip it for gender issues...
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but maybe I should shut up and let your respond/read your responses!
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