Lefties: the past must be overturned but we can’t allow the past to be overturned
When did critical thinking vanish?
One of, if not the, best test for honesty and critical thinking is the “substitution test,” in which a similar but tangential alternative is substituted for the thesis of an argument. If the argument holds, cool. If not, it’s almost always a bogus argument.
Caitlin Clark, a white college basketball player, is leading all comers … so let’s diss her because she’s white.
So let’s do a substitution test on inclusivity and diversity, shall we?
“And in a game built by Black women, it matters that the faces of the future look like the faces of the past.” (1)
Okay, then…. Let’s substitute a similar argument to test validity:
“And in a civilization built by white men, it matters that the faces of the future look like the faces of the past.”
… thereby erasing all of the racist nonsense promulgated by CRT, 1619, DIE, etc.
If it’s important that the future faces mirror those of the past in this job, is picking cotton any different? Why or why not? Discuss amongst yourselves
How about the face and sex of the person in the boardroom? The cop car? Fire engine? Pilot seat?
This is just primeval: that nothing can progress or be different from the past.
So let’s return to Plessy?
Blacks have had six decades of a thumb on the scale to make up for lost opportunity. They have shown little-to-no inclination to advantage themselves of this thumb and now demand an equal but unearned place, or somehow life remains unfair.
Well, Caitlin - earned - her way there. And blacks can’t handle it. So where, exactly, does the problem of systemic racism lie?
It lies in DEI:
Didn’t Earn It
What we are seeing is the logical endgame of all “rights” contests, race, sex, whatever. It’s a demand to lower standards to advance lower standards across civilization: devolution.
None of it is about equality; all of it is about unearned superiority. It always has been.