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13145015 No.13145015 [Reply] [Original]

Why am I no longer a racist after reading Plato and studying ethics and logic? Is this really where Western enlightenment can be found?

>> No.13145031

Define what it is to be a racist in your understanding.

>> No.13145069

>>13145015
>Why am I no longer a racist after reading Plato and studying ethics and logic?

RACISM HAS A BIOGENETIC BASIS —ID EST: RACISM CAN BE INHERITED, JUST LIKE ANY OTHER PSYKHIC CHARACTERISTIC—, BUT IT CAN BE CURTAILED THROUGH VIRTUE; I DOUBT THAT YOU CAN CURTAIL YOUR RACISM MERELY BY READING PLATONIC ETHICS, AND LOGIC, THEREFORE, YOU ARE STILL RACIST, OR YOU ARE NOT, AND HAVE NEVER BEEN, RACIST.

Is this really where Western enlightenment can be found?

ARE YOU REFERRING TO THAT «ENLIGHTENMENT» OF LIBERTY, FRATERNITY, EQUALITY, THAT TURNED RACISM INTO A SYSTEMATIC, EMPIRICISTICAL DISCIPLINE, AND INTO A METHOD OF LIFESTYLE?

QVOD VIDE: «SCIENTIFIC RACISM», «RACIAL REALISM», «HUMAN BIODIVERSITY», EUGENICS, COLONIALISM, ET CETERA.

>> No.13146214

>>13145015
read aristotle and be a racist again

>> No.13146230

>>13145015
but race doesn't exist. Neither does species, gender, or sex.

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>>13145015
Am I an expert in business after reading Marx?