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Originally Posted by myriverse
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It's not racist to acknowledge the differences. It's just racist to think one is better than another.
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Yeah, and really it should be the prerogative of everybody to get their ideas and opinions in tune with the larger historical context. We should be, as people in a society, aware of the significance of our institutions-- what they do, why they're there and we should be able to unify this with what we know about other things. There shouldn't be a conflict in my understanding of biology and my relation to social mores simply because the later are traditional de facto statements.
Isaac Newton is perhaps the most famous philosopher and physicist next to Einstein. During the enlightenment era, newton penned a work that radically changed how people come to understand their relation to the cosmos. He brought into the capacities of the limited human mind three laws that describe everything in the world we see. He upset an old order, he bequeathed a tool that still works just fine today. People do not need other reasons for why the world behaves as it does because of this foundation that after which we witnessed the explosion of knowledge and power we're still trying to fully integrate with today.
So, I guess I would say there's something a little intellectually dishonest about people who hold opinions based on the power of willful ignorance. I'm not saying people can't be dishonest, I'm not saying people can't voice the results. I'm saying there are domains of knowledge we can't ignore.
It's essential to unify what we know about the world with our society, institutions, and even ourselves. That's something people do out of habitual practice anyway, so I guess it's just a matter of time until we can feel at home in the world.