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John's avatar

This was a really good article and made some great points. The only thing that could be added is some more emphasis on the fervency of woke/progressive people's beliefs and values. Many have described it as religious in nature and it's hard not to disagree. I'm not sure what it would take to convince these people to abandon their ideology. What they would replace it with is another question. Advocating for an egalitarian world provides a sense of meaning and purpose. My assumption is that this would be very hard to let go of for many of these people.

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The Equality Thesis isn't the whole story with Wokism.

For example, the US military has a problem with Chinese spying. One of the reasons is that the US military hires Chinese people with Chinese passports from China, believes they are 100% American if they've been in the country for 6 months, and gives them sensitive information. A Blank Slater would easily understand why a Chinese person who was raised in China might have some loyalty to China. Wokists are forbidden from understanding that.

In fact, logically consistent people who believe in the equality thesis should be MORE opposed to some forms of immigration than hereditarians are. If you really believed that culture is the only difference between Sweden and Somalia, then you would conclude that Somali culture is one of the worst, most destructive things on Earth, and ought to be eradicated. The people who really believe in the Equality Thesis are Sowellite conservatives.

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