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If you're referring to the slavery of the average job, then that also applies to most smart people. But this is getting into too much unnecessary detail. Plain and simple I realise being unintelligent is a serious disadvantage, but dumb people have never been discriminated like black people were, not even close.
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I agree with you racial slurs are far worse because of not only the history but the tangible affects of that history on the modern context. While stupid people were never enslaved as a group, if you get into the realm of actual disability, I'm sure they weren't treated any better than a slave. Probably were just left to die at birth. That just doesn't have the same impact on our modern culture that slavery did. But they are comparable in that both rely on group stigmas and stereotypes. I think it's a bit disingenuous to say I see stupidity as a negative thing but it doesn't make you worth less as a person. Would you take the same approach if someone said I see a man who isn't masculine enough as a negative thing but it doesn't make him worth less as a person? I can tell you want this sort of distinction to be easy to draw but I believe it's more complicated than you assume. |
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Finding exceptions to a general statistical trend is not an argument against said trend. |
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Maybe I'm not understanding you exactly. Cause the way I used the f word was to emasculate a man who was probably already a basic run of the mill black southern homophobe. So I was attacking his masculinity because that's a point of pride to attack. How is it that's worse than calling him stupid if as you just said you view the two cases similarly?
Keep in mind, I actually do think it would've been less harmful to call him stupid but it also wouldn't have carried the same punch. I'm just curious because this seems contradictory to me. |
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No you're right, there's no difference. The thing is purely that Hawk phrased it as considering someone less worthy, and I don't feel like that's accurate. If I look down on someone for some reason, does that mean I consider them less worthy as a human being? That seems a bit dramatic
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Yes. That’s exactly what looking down at someone means.
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#70608 (permalink) | ||
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If you define it like that then yes.
But is that really an accurate definition? Maybe this is exaggerated, but to me someone's worth sounds like the value of someone's life. You said so too I think: 'You throw the word stupid out there as an insult you’re saying that all stupid people are inherently worth less as human beings.' And I definitely don't think a dumb person's life is worth less than that of a smart person. In general I would never think that someone's life was worth less just because I happen to have a lower opinion of them.
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Keep my name out yo mouth, bitch.
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That goes back to the fact that IQ tests really just measure who's more motivated to succeed more than intelligence but you don't like that statistic. Outside of disabilities, which don't always mean you're dumb, I think intelligence is way too static of a concept to really make this kind of statement. In my personal experience the average dish washer has no less or more cognitive ability than more successful people we're just less educated.
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