Kant, Hegel, Marx trained professors to reject spontaneous order theory as non-scientific/immoral, in favor of power & conspiracy theories.
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Post-Kantians demanded empirically certified formal structures, which spontaneous order phenomena explained by Darwin & Smith fail to meet.
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When you epistemology demands the rejection of spontaneous order theory you are left with primitive power genealogies & conspiracy theories.
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I find it interesting that often the people who discount the agency of individuals in favor of circumstance to explain their lot, are the same ones who ascribe agency to the system and reject circumstance to explain the effects of the system on individuals.
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good point — humans are agency-seeking, and we will find agency somewhere.
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"People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with..." 1/
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"One does not banish this specter by invoking it." - Christopher Hitchens -
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Seems like describing a power structure (“whiteness”) and it’s implications is not the same thing as reinforcing that power structure.
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And, someone gets it. Logic is undefeated.
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I used to be a happy white male. But then I learned that my race is evil. So now I whip myself daily as punishment. Is this bad or normal?
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Maybe it's not just slavery, maybe it's the fact that until one generation ago, blacks were unable to achieve in this country???
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The truth is it takes generations to escape that kind of oppression.
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Dwelling on the oppression is not going to make the escape faster though. Best way to overcome racism is to stop focusing on race.
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That implies that the problem is gone and it's effects are erased, which is false. That's called ignorance.
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Can’t think of another time or place where minorities are treated better
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That is a provocative essay. The central point seems to be that a focus on race promotes more racial/racist thinking.
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It's nice to feel that not focusing on race is a choice. In my experience not many POC feel that they have that luxury.
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You can fight racism without buying in to the idea that race is what caused racism. In fact you can't fight racism if you believe otherwise.
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I wasn’t agreeing or disagreeing. I was trying to distill what I took as the main point. Not enough space to elaborate my own position.
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I was responding to Anne G. I have no problem with what you said or what she said for that matter. Both seem true.
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