Brian Ross wrote on Nov 14
th, 2019 at 2:33pm:
Frank wrote on Nov 14
th, 2019 at 7:28am:
Brian Ross wrote on Nov 13
th, 2019 at 6:17pm:
Frank wrote on Nov 13
th, 2019 at 5:17pm:
Brian Ross wrote on Nov 13
th, 2019 at 2:17pm:
Frank wrote on Nov 12
th, 2019 at 8:46pm:
I have explained to you many times my argument, Soren. That you have failed to grasp it simply suggests that you have your head so far up your arse that it doesn't matter. The people on SBS are mistaken - 'cause they don't understand that they are discussing a social construct, not a scientific reality - just as you do continually. Genetics has destroyed Racism. QED.
Science itself IS a social construct, Bwian, as has been plainly pointed out to you many, many, many times, yet you are unable to comprehend it because it shots down your idiotic insistence on genetics versus social construction. People relate to each other SOCIALLY, Bwian, they don't constantly compare their genomes.
Po-faced old, know-nuffin' aunty is still correct. Add incomprehending. I have explained to you many times my argument, Soren. That you have failed to grasp it simply suggests that you have your head so far up your arse that it doesn't matter. The people on SBS are mistaken - 'cause they don't understand that they are discussing a social construct, not a scientific reality - just as you do continually. Genetics has destroyed Racism. QED.
Go and play in your mud patch, Soren. Enjoy yourself.
https://media.tenor.com/images/35e7caab324e2f78cfcce921cb8d9756/tenor.gif Are you insisting, Bwian, that science itself is NOT a social construct?
Science is observation, Soren. First you observe an event, then you theorise and then you test to see if your theory is correct or not. If it isn't, you go back to the first step, observe the event again and rethink your theory and retest it. You keep doing this until you have it right. It is based on logic and reality. Racism is based on bullshit, pure and simple and you are the chief proponent of that here.
Science is an observation - that is really a very silly attempt to save your stupid non-argument, Bwian. What you notice while observing is a social construct, a matter of training, acculturation = social construct. People observe the natural and social and personal world differently because they are taught, trained, acculturated differently.
Science is a social construct, even by your own description. The scientific method is a social construct of fairly recent invention by white Europeans although its roots go back to classical Greece. It was not present in all human communities before white Europeans constructed this way of going about learning about the natural world and taught the rest of the world about it.
Some scientific theories are worse than others and so they get revised. Nobody has a fully 'observed' account of objective, as-it-is-itself reality, Bwian.
Cultures are also social constructs and therefore are not equal either. There is a hierarchy of cultures, just as there is a hierarchy of everything, including theories about the world, scientific or otherwise. Some social constructs (ideas, in short) are better than others, some are worse than all the others.
You cannot wish away racial or personal or linguistic or historic - in a word, cultural - differences. You can deplore the unequal treatment of people because of those differences but you cannot wish the differences away. They are there for all to see, including you.
You can say you don't approve of racism but to say that there are NO different races, cultures, peoples is just plain stupid, especially when you are also using language that distinguishes between such categories of people. Not to mention that it would make your disapproval of racism itself
meaningless - a state of mind you have made uniquely your own, Bwian.