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• Race and Ideology (Score:1)

  by echo (2881)

  But if your race is a determinant or strong indicator of your ideology This is where you went really very wrong, believing that there is any link between race and ideology. Not that you are alone in spreading such fud, it's been around since the beginning of time, unfortunately.
  • Re:Race and Ideology (Score:1)

    by james (1129) on 2003.01.17 7:38 (#16114) Homepage Journal

    But if your race is a determinant or strong indicator of your ideology This is where you went really very wrong, believing that there is any link between race and ideology.
    
    You're quoting out of context there. Pudge said earlier in the post:
    
    but it seems to me both insulting and wrong to say that your culture or ideas are either determined or strongly indicated by the color of your skin.
    
    Pudge makes the point that he considers it wrong to consider race an useful factor in determining ideology. He makes this point again later on. I think the statement that you are objecting to was made from a position of considering how certain groups of society think.
    
    I'm not going to quote verbatim on this, as the original entry is there for all to see. but if you read more carefully the point he seems to be making is 'if you think y is true, then doesn't it follow that x would be true as well'. This is a reasonable line of logic given the preconditions he lays down.
    
    I agree with both pudge and yourself in saying that race is not an acceptable means of determining ideology and I think if you read the entry again more closely you may find that you've been mistaken in your criticism.
    
    Regards,
    James.

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    • Re:Race and Ideology (Score:2)

      by pudge (1)

      Yeah, what james said.