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Old April 2nd, 2009 #39
Antiochus Epiphanes
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Originally Posted by Larry Heinberg View Post
.... Since class membership is defined by attributes which are relevant to certain judgements. Race membership isn't.
bullshit, this is the total bullshit that flies in the face of common sense.

if you know that black males are disrpoportionately resposnsible for violent crimes, such as muggings, or rapes against white women, which they provably and statistically most certainly are-- then if you are a white woman walking down the street at night and a coon is following you, then you SHOULD indeed you MUST assume based on his GROUP that he presents a serious potential threat. Reaching inside the purse to ready the revolver is a rational response based on "PREJUDICE" which is not blind but clear sighted and based on facts.

Social groups such as race or ethnic-tribal belonging-- Jewishness for example-- when you know the group, it tells you something probably about the individual, in certain contexts. THe information is useful. We should want to know it, and we should use the information whenever its useful to us. Just like marketers who spend billions of dollars a year studying group demographics including age, sex, religion, neighborhood, geographic, class, income, edcuational level, blah blah blah, a thousand group belongings, do this and spend tons of money on it because it is useful.