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7. Maybe Jews are just naturally more greedy. Maybe black people naturally have a lower average IQ.
Wed Oct 2, 2013, 09:06 PM
Oct 2013

Do you see where I'm going with this?

Essentialist arguments are self-serving. The theories were designed not to explain phenomena but to justify certain deplorability.

There is a very thin layer of foundational phenomena that can be explained using social psychology. Above those, social psychology has no footing.

For instance:

Why do we have a tendency to animalize women of color? Is there a specific part of our brain that tells us "women of color are animals?" Of course not because inherited instincts are not complex enough to transmit specific language and symbols. You aren't born knowing complex language. You aren't born understanding demarcations between animals and non-animals.

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