Reductionist Erasure
April 6, 2019
By NZB3
Typical Materialistic Post-Modern Reductionist assumption demonstrated in this viral meme (left.)
Reduce individual identity, gender, race, faith and culture down to the calcium detritus of an endoskeleton.
When you do that we’re all the same aren’t we? It’s got that nice r-selected message of non-identity with a little zing in the tail, a pirate joke.
The r-selected people love to share this sort of thing around because it re-inforces their idea of sameness. Lack of identity. They don’t mind, don’t perceive, that it is a fallacious argument. Because, after all, individual differences are not literally rooted in our endoskeletons!
It reminds me of Feminists (also r-selected) who love to reduce masculinity to having a penis or not as if that were all there were to the matter.
Or, consider this similar viral meme that has also come by this month. Again, the message of sameness with a little anti-Trump joke in the tail end.
The r-selecteds hate judgement (“don’t judge me”) and discrimination (recognition and understanding of the difference between one thing and another.) Their core belief is that we are all the same, there is nothing to individuate one person from another. Not that this matter can be decided on the dead remains of your skull when it has been reduced to a dry aggregation of chemicals but here’s another perspective…
In reality there are races and accompanying traits that anthropologists use to identify them. When I was at primary school such books were even on the shelves still but by C20th they had been purged or not-replaced.
The challenge before our society is to accept, even celebrate, our differences and nourish a social system that allows us to live and work side by side peacefully. This is Race Realism. They get in the way of that essential work who pretend there is no challenge to confront.
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Image ref. Neil Holdom – New Plymouth District Mayor; Facebook
Image ref. Lynley Hood (Author of A City Possessed: The Christchurch Civic Creche Case); Facebook
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