Why are you humping this story so hard? It's fuel for the right wing precisely because people like you misinterpret the criticism.
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Could he be "humping this story so hard" because he wants people to behave civilly and exercise self control? What a crazy motivation.
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You think with wages lagging productivity gains, rapid automation and dull future prospects for the poor of all races that self-control...
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is really whats at issue here? Humans have a tendency to seek causal explanations and discount survivorship biases & outsized roll of chance
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What's at issue here is if civility and some other similar values are virtuous in any absolute sense or if they are white bourgeois values.
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Civility is good but argument's sort of a non-sequitur and out of touch, if one's trying to understand and change the status quo.
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The argument (via the OP) is that praising self-control, civility is NOT racist..
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The opposing view (via this thread) seems to be that SOME people can't be expected to behave civilly. Who is bigoted in this scenario?
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Maybe we should just debate the values themselves and decide if they're good ones to encourage, embrace, and teach in American society.pic.twitter.com/e72xLfBrBL
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Ok, but like - this is the debate. Wax wrote an op-ed and someone wrote a response. What am i supposed to be angry about?
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You should read the article. It is not at all about that.
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The worst thing that has happened here is criticism in print. "Wax will not be silenced" by a student op-ed, wow the courage
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You are forever eager to show the right-wing where the fuel is. Almost like you want them to find it.
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There must be balance in force my young padawan.https://www.city-journal.org/html/real-war-science-14782.html …
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Conflating race and culture is the most stupid and dangerous thing the Far-left has done so far, can they not see where that will end??
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Why is the National Review the source you chose to quote?
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This "fuel for right wing" argument is a can of worms I suggest people stop opening up. If it's wrong it's wrong, what GOP thinks irrelevant
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It's not wrong. Pinker is buying the right wing spin that those values were benign and weren't used as basis for perpetuating racism.
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IF it's wrong, I said. There's lots to unpick in the Tweet but "stop doing this, the right like it" is inverse Trumpian logic, ergo bad
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1968 overthrew a paradigm but did not propose another viable (or it was not viable without a bunch of consciouness and responsability)
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