Karnal wrote on Jul 16
th, 2022 at 6:29pm:
MeisterEckhart wrote on Jul 16
th, 2022 at 12:27am:
CRT's proposal that racial discrimination (in the over-simplistic American term of the word) is the result of a social construct that can be surgically removed by social engineering, requires a gross misunderstanding of human nature.
Humans instinctively discriminate between ingroups and outgroups. That's true with religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender, even down to sports team rivalry; and it is ineradicable.
This has been proven scientifically. A person's reaction to an outgroup can be measured by MRI. The amygdalic reaction to an outgroup comes before reasoning and almost instantly. Higher brain functioning can and does moderate the reaction, but not before the instinctive reaction is noticeable.
Just so. You can't stop racism, no?
How about we just become jolly old racists? We'll come here, spam the board with our Daily Mail articles, our drunken Boong videos and memes about Nig Nogs. If anyone raises racism, we'll say, wacist? Moi?
How very dare you!
I say we all give it a go. Starting from - now.
I thought you were better than that.
Of course ethno-chauvinism is unjust.
But what cannot be done is for ethno-chauvinism to be socially engineered out of another's psyche.
Legislation does not alter the human instinct to discriminate; it just proscribes against acting on those instincts - as it should.
What CRT is about is making the claim that 'once an oppressor, always an oppressor unless you undergo a conversion therapy requiring permanent self-loathing and being mindful of the actions of those who've gone before, whether or not they were actually your ancestors - they were, at least, your skin colour.
What can be taught is that we all have the instinct to discriminate with nearly everything imaginable and we must learn to be aware of it, such that our higher faculties can moderate our initial instinctive reaction.
You think Fwank's higher faculties will moderate his initial instinctive reaction? He's aghast at the very "pwemise". Ethno-chauvinism?
How very dare you.