Jordan Peterson made a profound point on Chris Williamson’s podcast.
When God dies, a lot of unexpected things die with Him, including science.
Science isn’t some purely neutral, secular tool. It rests on deeply religious assumptions: that truth exists, that it’s knowable, that pursuing it is good, and that the universe makes sense.
These aren’t scientific claims, they’re metaphysical, rooted in a religious worldview. The universities themselves grew out of monasteries.
Without that deeper foundation, science eventually stops being about truth and becomes just another tool for power, ideology, or convenience. You lose the reason to be honest when the data gets inconvenient.
Do you think science can survive long-term without any belief in objective truth or a higher moral order?
The history of Palestine and Ireland have an immense amount of similarities.
People try to over complicate the issue.
Coloniser = bad. That’s all.
This is why Ireland should and always will stand with Palestine.
Today is the day!
My first book, "The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America," is now out in fine bookstores everywhere!
The Audiobook is read by yours truly!
https://t.co/61VkZ3ooM2
John McWhorter’s review of Coleman Hughes' book on colorblindness is phenomenal.
“In today’s America, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s hope that black people might be judged by “the content of their character” is increasingly dismissed as quaint or even inconvenient. The new idea is to pose an eternal opposition between “whiteness” and “blackness,” to the point that even a quick Google search for the term “colorblindness” will reveal how casually that saw notion is dismissed. Once a widely held ideal, disregard for racial differences has now come to seem naïve and even callous to many who equate it with unconcern about the injustices of racist bias.”
“Today’s professional antiracist insists that even though open bigotry of the kind described above is now proscribed, the very fabric of the nation remains racist as long as any statistical disparities between black and white people persist. “When I see racial disparities, I see racism”—so Ibram X. Kendi, megastar guru of antiracism, once famously intoned. Hughes calls this the Disparity Fallacy, and his primary aspiration in The End of Race Politics is to refute it. The white suicide rate is twice the black one, yet neither Kendi nor anyone else would attribute this to systemic racism against whites. “Is anyone suspicious about 75 percent of NBA players being black?” Hughes asks. It would be unthinkable to institute a “racial equity” policy that mandated reducing the proportion of black NBA players to 13%.
Clever as observations like these are, however, they argue past a key premise of the opposition’s argument: that disparities are only pernicious if those with purportedly less power fare worse than those with more (this is called “intersectional hierarchy”). If more whites commit suicide, we assume there is a problem with white “culture.” If there are more black basketball stars, that is because black “culture” values basketball highly. Under this logically fragile but highly influential construct, only white culture can be flawed; if black people lag behind in any way, the fault must belong to “racism.”
“Hughes’s more useful points are those immune to this objection. Example, some data show that racism, while it exists, is not uniquely virulent against black people. Studies of callbacks after the submission of job applications show black applicants 32% less likely to get a reply than white ones—but then Arabs are 41% less likely, while Indians and other South Asians suffer the same rate of non-callbacks as black people (30%). In the early 20th century, at a time of open and implacable racism, black Caribbean immigrants owned most businesses in Harlem. On the basis of these and other realities, Hughes offers the conclusion—as likely true as it will be infuriating to the antiracist brigade—that “current racial discrimination is not a significant cause of current racial disparities in income.”
Time for race-blind gov’t policy & law.
In my Saturday column for @RestoringWest, I argue that real equality means one law and one standard for everyone.
The moment we exempt some people from the rules, we undermine both justice and freedom.