The Flawed Ideology at the Core of Discrimination

Published 2024-08-02
It's crazy to think that if you ask anyone, "why is racism wrong?" they might not have an answer. You would think in a culture so concerned with the oppressed & marginalized, that we would know what we're fighting against, but we don't.

We don't dive into why people with bigoted beliefs arrive at their mindset because it is a mindset that our own society still holds onto.

In this video, I go over various misunderstandings people can have about the nature of discrimination, and I explain the ideology that society refuses to acknowledge is at the core of racism, sexism, and all other forms of bigotry.

Tags: #philosophy #debate #education #ethics #freewill

All Comments (20)
  • @airman122469
    “Discrimination” is not inherently bad. “Discrimination” is how one discerns anything. “Prejudicial discrimination” is bad, because it presupposes characteristics based on superficial traits.
  • @fooladoo1076
    I have gotten into many political debates recent, this is a good video to think of the nature of how to form convincing agreements, hopefully one day ill be able to fix some christian through debates
  • @FilthyVarmint
    Ok I was mostly just kidding about the Islamophobia comment, for reasons you already covered in the video. But on a serious note, have you made any content covering the topic of abortion? It's my most grey area issue, no matter how much women talk about it being about their freedom with their body, I struggle to see it as anything other than infanticide. I try to look into it, but there's just such extreme biases on either side, and there's a lot of issues when it comes to trusting the statistics (especially since rapes aren't always reported, and women may lie about their motive to get an abortion), that it makes it hard to construct a good opinion on it. I'd like to hear from you because even when I disagree with you, I can take things you've said and use them as a starting point to figure out the "how" I can do my research, which is better than having an endless sea of information at my fingertips but knowing where to start because everything is biased to hell
  • Good video. I like. Only criticism I have is with the presentation. It was hard for me and I imagine others to follow along with your thoughts while simultaneously reading your extra context and examples that you had in the visuals. I think there might be a better way to incorporate those without the viewer feeling like there attention is divided or that they have to pause and rewind segments of the video. As someone who enjoys video essay style content this wasn't enough of an annoyance for me to click off the video, but for the sake of this kind of valuable content reaching wider audiences, I do think it is a barrier. Maybe have some kind of visual or audio indicator that tells the viewer to pause for more context so they can read at their own pace comfortably after you break down a premise. That and I think it would help having all the visuals just pop into frame as opposed to slowly revealed. For me the slow reveal of the text on screen was VERY distracting from the main arguments you were speaking.
  • @blooeagle5118
    I'd like to share my thoughts, if you would care to hear them. There is another dimension here that I believe has been neglected about the discrimination discussion, and I didn't hear it mentioned here. Determinism is only a portion of the difficulties of race, and unfortunately for you, it actually seems that determinism may be right, according to evidence. Briefly, the bell-curve discussion was put on screen, which describes the differences in IQ among the different races of man, usually in America. Another fact that should be presented with this to round it out is that IQ is an excellent predictor of criminality, general life success, and time preference, among other things. These differences of IQ disregarding race indicate that people with a low IQ are at risk of being more criminal than people with a high IQ; the wrench in the cogs is that IQ corresponds with race, suggesting that certain races are more criminal and, as well, we have evidence to back this claim up. These are not just willy-nilly beliefs that came out of a non-descript hatred, no, these are based on observations that anybody can go and see for themselves. However, disregarding criminality and IQ, I would like to bring up cultural differences between races. Since cultures are given the namesake of the groups that they were generated from we can easily say that the race needs to exist for that culture to have also existed. For example, Nigerians created Nigerian culture, Germans created German culture, and so on. This is to say that cultures belong to specific groups and are especially tied to those groups, as a Nigerian could not have generated German culture for he has generated Nigerian culture. This being said, would it then not be prudent for a nation being a conglomerate of a racial, ethnic, cultural, and societal groups of people distinct from others to cherish their culture and keep it their own? Wouldn't this mean that those people have a right to preserve their cultures as they see fit, to include excluding other groups if they seem hostile to themselves? If I were to take 10,000 Indian men and put then into Finland, and allow them to act freely as a Finnish citizen, wouldn't they begin to generate Indian culture within Finland and potentially corrupt the native Finnish culture? Would the Indians be accepting of 10,000 Fins entering India and generating their Finnish culture there? The point here is that culture and race being tied together inherently gives the right to preserve that culture to that race, and thus gives then grounds to discriminate to defend their uniqueness from external threats or take-over. Would it then be harmful to the native population of Finland to tell them that they can't be racist towards the outside group because it would hurt the Indian men? Would you not wish to expel a poor guest who corrupts your own home with his images and cultural devices? It is your home, after all. I'd like your thoughts on this. Thank you.
  • Hey, as someone who also identifies as a center-right wing, I would like to argue some points you made. Though I did enjoy the overall representation. 1) The issue regarding the tolerance for the ignorant is true, however at times that ignorant can be violent and shake the system out of so called ignorance. Look at the amount of people who will look at 9/11 and say "I am just asking questions" and then will do the same thing to 2008, JFK, the moon landing and the curvature of the earth. They aren't "asking questions" cause they dont want answers. This is why the stability of a society should be held before just the vague notion of freedom. And conservatives will do it too, regarding sexuality especiality "sexuality isnt nuanced, cause if there is a drag queen the west is going to fall" the two things can't be argue at the same level. Yes the left can be intentionally ignorant about gender, but cant we say that this entire line of thinking i.e. "I am just asking questions to test the systems", is bad? 2. Regarding the abortion stance, I think you are putting a wrong equivalence here. The thought process of "abortion is bad cause Singer was a eugenist" is far too simple of an explanation and is too just a shallow philosophy regarding a certain stance. 3. chalking systemic racism throughout history as a Marxist hoax is false. You can argue that the modern way of thinking is too radical and false, but evidently stuff like women not being allowed to sign checks or slavery or the chinese exclusion act happened and should be discussed if we as the liberal (liberal as in free thinkers) want to learn from our past, the issue with the left is when they cant seem to see how those bad stuff are in the past and to a large extent rn it is individual actions. Overall good video. But some different examples could have been used as to not draw a fallacy equivalent.
  • @oofoof6577
    I'm definitely not right wing but this was an awesome and profound video. I definitely pressed the like button on this one
  • @FilthyVarmint
    Starting this video mildly Islamophobic, especially after what just happened in Britain. We'll see if I feel differently after I watch the video.
  • @ValenSerethi
    As a Racist, while i disagree with your argument against racism, i still give this a like. The beginning was nonsensically circular, but you broke down some good points in the end. Leftism I could get behind.
  • While individual racism is best avoided, societal racism is necessary to survive long-term. The lack of racism recently is damaging and leading to suboptimal policy, especially in Europe and CANZUK. We need to be more racist to survive. Back to the 1930s? No way. Back 40 years though? Yeah. You can call it "sensible immigration and assimilation policy" if you prefer rather than "racism", but I prefer to just say racism these days to make clear I won't be backing down on anything just because someone wants to cry about everything being racism - cuts out some steps this way - I encourage anyone who cares about anti-globalist policy priorities to think along the same lines. If globalist liberals wanted to keep the label truly deplorable and a sort of special insult to describe actual race haters, they shouldn't have overused it.
  • @lakkakka
    Before I continue this vid I just hope this shit is not limiting discrimination to just race alone. Seems kinda racist to obsess over race.