Racism
March 20, 2019
By NZB3
Old Vince asks lots of interesting focusing questions on Facebook. Tell you a secret about me. Any time someone asks an open question like ‘can you identify this old picture’ or ‘what was this old tool for’ or ‘why did she do that?’ it triggers me into answering. Doesn’t have to be me though, I’m equally satisfied if it’s someone else but this curiosity fire must be put out!
“If racism helps you see the world more accurately, is racism good?”- V.J.M
Stereotyping is good in the Lattice of Cognition. Such tools are useful so long as you respect them and remember that racial stereotyping is a stereotype and subject to limitations as such. Discrimination, in that sense, is just anther word for figuring things out as the dictionary says. So is Judgement. Essential tools to get by in the world. But this more abstract, thinking, understanding belongs to a more enlightened age. A Dignity Culture. A culture that made our laws and society great and wrote our dictionary…
Racial stereotyping is not good in the Lattice of Politics or Morality. It’s not ethical or correct to privilege or dehumanise human worth over someone or something else based on race; It’s even un-Christian and alien to the best of those afore mentioned dictionary writers. But since words like judgement and discrimination and racism only exist in this Political and Moral space for our mainstream culture (SC and VC) they want it all gone. They’re only capable of thinking of things in terms of identity politics, only capable of seeing humanity as non-individuated homogeneous inmates on the r-selected plains. They cannot see any good in racism, refuse to see races (even genders,) don’t participate in the Lattice of Cognition at all. See no value in it, assume you don’t either, want to stop you from thinking.
Context is essential.
You can look online and find old dictionaries from an earlier version of our culture. Webster’s Dictionary 1828 Online Edition, for example, puts discrimination down as “The act of distinguishing; the act of making or observing a difference; distinction; as the discrimination between right and wrong.”
Dictionaries written for us today are written by Slaves and Victims. If you own a recent copy of a dictionary take a look at what it’s telling you what thinking symbols (words) you’re to work with. If I ask Google the same question I asked Noah Webster the top answer is..
Discrimination: The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.
What does your dictionary say? Be wary of letting dictionaries supply your thoughts and philosophy. You might die of a misprint!
See also,
Malcolm X 1992 Dictionary Scene…
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