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What defines a “marginalized community”? What is an “everyday folk”? Someone who is a “folk” every single day?

Are these “biases” only structural and institutionalized? Or are the sometimes biological? Who needs to do the addressing and how? Can biological differences actually be “addressed” by social revolution? Is that even desirable for a functioning society to “address” the “biases” of class and sex differences?

Will erasing all distinctions between people (and especially among the most distinct ones!) actually “better the human condition” for anyone?

History says no.

There are exactly two kinds of people, regardless of race, sex, class, or creed: mostly productive and mostly unproductive.

Progressivism is a desire for rule by the unproductive, and it crops up when the grandchildren of productive people want to feel good about themselves and how they’re “helping better the human condition” when in fact their policies are making those conditions worse.

When productive people try to help others, with logic, reason, and a can-do attitude, they are generally successful. When the unproductive try to help, based on feelings, flawed logic, and more talk than action, more critique than solutions, they make matters worse.

As someone who previously identified as a liberal and progressive, I can confidently say the people you will argue with in this generally an-cap space understand your ideology much better than you understand theirs.

“Are focused on” god even the language is wishy washy… how are you “focused on” improving the human condition? Changing your profile picture each month to support the current thing? 🙄

It seems you may be angry about implementation and certain people?

I never said anything about productive v unproductive class, and you’re getting into assumption territory and communism?

Just tried to port forth some broad definitions

I’m angry that people like you with such simple, unworkable ideas are nonetheless so self-assured in your righteousness

You really think your heart being in the right place means something, but in reality it means absolutely fuck-all

I had to learn this for myself, and I urge you to consider the possibility that your good intent can actually hurt people

Where do you live?

I live in Europe where the gipsies have been historically marginalized and still are. This is an institutionalized bias https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecuci%C3%B3n_de_la_etnia_gitana that has been going on for centuries. I'm sure you can think of a community in your country or nearby countries that has the same issue, even if you are not part of it.

They’re getting special attention in Eastern Europe?

Context matters. How are Romani treated in those societies? How have been treated historically? Do these countries have an history of authoritarianism and segregation?

Do you know about Jeréz in Spain? Is a great example of Romani integration.

https://www.lavozdelsur.es/opinion/el-recuadro-de-junquera/de-jerez-y-los-gitanos_78810_102.html

Looks like you have your mind made up and are looking for "data" to back up your prejudice, like most of the population.

The problem I have is with the notion that the institutionalized discrimination is 100% cause and 0% effect.

The oppressor/oppressed mindset is incredibly naive.

Workers without management and capital can’t run the factory. They can only shut it down.

Who defines “productive”?

> There are two kinds of X: mostly Y and mostly not-Y

This is true for literally any X and Y.