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If you believe that hard enough I guess that makes it true for you. Or if you change the definitions around. Race is not the essential issue, I assert. It's culture, collectivism, statism, fallacy, cowardice, and racial identity. The belief in race makes race play a part in it because of the underlying issue of conformity and collectivism. There are real discrepancies between races along various metrics because of these dynamics, but not because of some magical intrinsic properties to race exhibiting any homogenous degeneracy that can be easily separated from the other factors and remain consistent. The races might be "real" but they are transient and multifaceted. It's a poor explanatory tool compared with the way I look at things, and feeds into a fallacious worldview of ethno-collectivists from all corners, whether woke or anti-woke.

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Kevin's Bacon 5mo ago

It's not 100% the belief that makes races different, of course. I don't believe in equality. I meant to say that that exacerbates it, and makes it such that race is an actual factor, even when it need not be. There are many factors that go into this stuff.

Culture and philosophy is a far better explanatory tool though, especially family culture, and perhaps individual genetic inheritance. These things combined are far more useful and reliable in predicting behavior, values, economic tendencies, and politics.

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