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Originally Posted by TheMadcap
Your number 5, as written, would not stand up to much scrutiny. There could be a biological gap wrt empathy for people of different races but clearly most (if not all) of that can be overcome if people are convinced of the right arguments. The difference between how we would describe what is happening there highlights the point pretty well.
What the **** are you even talking about? "Biological gap"? How ****ing racist do you have to be to see an argument asserting that racism is real and that racists exist and read it as an argument that white people are biologically tuned to be less empathetic to non-whites. You cannot escape the premises of being insanely racist and you assume everyone else is. ****ing "biological gap" give me a ****ing break.
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5) People have a hard time honestly considering arguments that challenge their world view and so, when faced with one of the other points, they will look to find ways to protect their previously held beliefs.
For example, there's a guy in this thread who inexplicably adopted Martin Luther King as an avatar of his "no agitating too forcefully, now" reactionary bull**** and when challenged melted down into absolute gibberish.
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My suspicion (and this is probably going to be the last post I try to make on this subject ITT) is that the same impulse to protect previously held beliefs is precisely the reason you are having such a hard time with my argument. You have tied your identity to angrily yelling at people who you disagree with. You would rather ignore the point that I am trying to make (and brush off anything that you have no argument against by just attacking my motivations) rather than consider the fact that the way you approach these conversations is not morally justified. (If only because it leads to worse outcomes. As you would know if you had read my link)
TBH I don't know what point you were trying to make you're referring to here because you are, as noted, a GODAWFUL writer. But no? How about "no". Just as a rule of thumb, no.