In the "Is Gameboy racist" thread. And Gameboy is being effortlessly schooled by Jacky!
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Platonic_Caveman — 5 years ago(June 21, 2020 06:46 PM)
Again, you can't find anywhere that I've said any race is genetically superior other than one typo. If I believed it, I'd defend it. But I don't. If you're gonna argue with me on that point you're tilting at windmills.
Jacky also agreed with me that Classical civilization is superior. Splain that!
You're bringing up ethical arguments why the West is not superior. I'm talking about technology, philosophy, literature. Again, the airplane is superior to a rickshaw. A computer is superior to an abacus. Existentialism is superior to Confucianism. What other culture even competes with Shakespeare? The West is superior. Sorry, that's the truth you cultural relativists can't prove wrong.
If all my detractors have against me is a typo than I've already won at the outset. Debate the real issues and I'm ready.
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dbentley666 — 5 years ago(June 21, 2020 06:56 PM)
But you did say it. It can't be a typo. Nobody replaces a four syllable word with a five syllable word, especially when the latter has a completely different sound and structure.
It doesn't make any difference to me that Jacky thinks classical civilization (if that even means anything) is superior.
I'm saying that the philosophy and literature you seem to value is complicit in the genocide and destruction of the natural world. I've taught existentialism, and it isn't superior to Confucianism. It's just different. No scholar worth his or her salt goes around saying that what they research/teach is "better" than another system that they know nothing about. That's elementary scholarly ethics and caution.
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Platonic_Caveman — 5 years ago(June 21, 2020 07:08 PM)
Dude, it wasn't a typo like "you're" for "your". When the topic is superiority of one group of humans over another, the issue is culture versus genetics. I'm on the culture side. I've argued this over and over hundreds of times. Why all a sudden would I make a 180?
My point about Jacky is we had a genuine discussion. She schooled me on nothing. We both respectfully listened to each other.
Morris didn't pwn me. He jumped on a typo and refused to debate the real issue. Existentialism is a more advanced philosophy than Confucianism. It discards beliefs based on tradition. Confucianists crippled women by binding their feet for crying out loud.
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dbentley666 — 5 years ago(June 21, 2020 07:17 PM)
She's right. The history of the West is a history of death and torture for those who opposed the powerful. From the burning of "witches," to the Crusades, to the destruction of Inca and Aztec civilization by the Spaniards, to the genocidal policies of American pioneers….
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Platonic_Caveman — 5 years ago(June 21, 2020 08:13 PM)
Genghis Khan and the Mongols killed nobody, right? They only committed genocide from China to Hungary. The Aztecs plundered their neighbors and committed bloody sacrifices to their gods. The Japanese and the rape of Nanking - I'm sure you've heard of that. This is a human problem, not a Western problem.
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dbentley666 — 5 years ago(June 21, 2020 07:14 PM)
You don't seem to know what a typo is. Either that or you use language very loosely and imprecisely, which is even worse. Claiming genetic superiority is old-fashioned, scientifically discredited racism. Claiming cultural superiority is still racism, still discredited, but of slightly later vintage. So you moved from Hitler-type racism to Samuel Huntington-type racism. Not a particularly moral or admirable shift, but you want to claim the latter is somehow defensible.
Basically, you made two distinct mistakes. The first one was truly awful, and you back-pedalled frantically. The second one is slightly less awful.
I love existentialism, but I can think of a page full of problems with it. It's been massively attacked by feminists for celebrating a peculiarly male-heroic version of crises overcome. Almost an entire generation of French feminists would dismiss Sartrean existentialism as utter crap. I'm sympathetic to their position.
