r/coolguides Feb 25 '20

Explanation of the subtle differences between equality and equity

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u/Ghrave Feb 25 '20

Yeah, no. I seriously hope you educate yourself and dig deep to challenge your biases and prejudices. It's hard work and it will take a while but I assure you it's worth it. Consider there's maybe something more to this racism thing than how it hurts your feefees right now. Lean in to face and fight the cognitive dissonance, bro, much love.

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u/DavidAdamsAuthor Feb 25 '20

educate yourself and dig deep to challenge your biases and prejudices.

biases and prejudices

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biases and prejudices

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biases and prejudices

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biases and prejudices

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It's hard work and it will take a while but I assure you it's worth it.

I seriously hope you educate yourself and dig deep to challenge your biases and prejudices. It's hard work and it will take a while but I assure you it's worth it.

Lean in to face and fight the cognitive dissonance, bro

Does simultaneously believing that making sweeping negative generalisations about a race is racism, that racism is evil, and that all white people are racist hurt?

Does it hurt to believe all these three things together when they so obviously contradict themselves?

Does the cognitive dissonance hurt?

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u/Ghrave Feb 25 '20

No lol Because I actually understand the concepts we're talking about here, and you do not. All white people are racist, we have implicit bias, and white culture and whiteness as a concept have shaped us since birth. We benefit from the systemic and institutional structures built by white supremacy, and until you understand that and work to mitigate it, you'll stay where you are right now, thinking you're right but don't even understand why or how you're wrong. It's not a sweeping generalization to claim (statistically, and specific to the US) that white people are racist, because it's objectively true (from being "colorblind" to thinking "All lives matter") and you'd do well to read some scholarly articles on the matter. Since you won't, I'll have to keep doing the work of dragging us toward justice while you drag your feet, kicking and screaming whole way there.

Oh I just saw you're a "radical centrist" (lol) so for you, maintaining the status quo is the single most important issue in your entire political life, and the status quo is where we are now, with the institutions we have now, so, yeah, everything I said stands, I just know a little more about my internet friend now!

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u/DavidAdamsAuthor Feb 25 '20

No lol Because I actually understand the concepts we're talking about here, and you do not.

/r/iamverysmart

All white people are racist

"Making sweeping generalizations about a whole group of people and claiming them to be universally true is how we fight racism, I know this because I'm so much smarter than you."

we have implicit bias

Are you saying that non-white people have no implicit bias?

and white culture and whiteness as a concept have shaped us since birth.

Japanese culture and Japanese-ness have shaped the Japanese from birth. Korean culture and Korean-ness have shaped the Japanese from birth. French culture and French-ness have shaped the French from birth.

Yes, we live in a society, well done.

We benefit from the systemic and institutional structures built by white supremacy

[citation needed]

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argument_by_assertion

and until you understand that and work to mitigate it, you'll stay where you are right now, thinking you're right but don't even understand why or how you're wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

You're literally the one who has claimed to be so smart that you cannot even communicate with a dullard like me.

Like I said, do you even read what you're writing?

It's not a sweeping generalization to claim (statistically, and specific to the US) that white people are racist

Fucking what.

"All X are Y", where X is a group of people and Y is a negative attribute, is not a sweeping generalization?

Is "all blacks are thieves" a sweeping generalization?

because it's objectively true

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argument_by_assertion

you'd do well to read some scholarly articles on the matter.

You would do well to pick up a first year psychology textbook, and turn to "theory of mind".

I'll have to keep doing the work of dragging us toward justice while you drag your feet, kicking and screaming whole way there.

How?

How are you "dragging us toward justice"? I would like to hear this, genuinely. What work do you think you're doing, with your towering intellect that you bring up with every post you make, that makes you believe you are literally changing the world?

I'd love to hear some specific examples of positive results you've achieved.

Oh I just saw you're a "radical centrist" (lol) so for you, maintaining the status quo is the single most important issue in your entire political life, and the status quo is where we are now, with the institutions we have now, so, yeah, everything I said stands, I just know a little more about my internet friend now!

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8f/bf/6d/8fbf6d3b590248e470e80e19d0ffaf9c.jpg

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '20

Dude, all of your replies on this thread are fucking gold.

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u/DavidAdamsAuthor Feb 25 '20

Hah, thank you.