Saturday, May 03, 2014

So much Bullshit, so little Time...

(1) There is, in fact, racism in the world--horrific examples of which may be found in Sri Lanka, in central Africa, in Indonesia, and in the autonomous republics of what used to be the Soviet Union--but there is hardly any racism at all in the United States of America; none worth mentioning at least, in the sense of unwarranted, automatic, prejudicial bad opinions, on the part of civil and educational authorities, or among white people generally,  about negroes:  Bad, or disparaging, opinions, about the inherited low intelligence, and the inherent violence and criminality of negroes, contrarily, are, for the most part, quite well warranted and appallingly well substantiated by the statistics of academic and intelligence test scores (Thank you, Dr. Arthur R. Jensen) and by police arrest records.  So-called "systemic racism," "institutional racism" or "laissez-faire racism" simply, on the evidence--and upon close reading of the texts which purport to define them--don't exist.

(2) The same may be said for the "pretty notion" (as Voltaire said, in English, about the "Soul") of "Ontology," if it is considered to be anything other than the apparent, mutative, scientific and analytical, several and discrete aspects of Phenomenology. "Ontology," in any other sense  merely  serves to reiterate the tired fallacy that Existence is a predicate (which, of course, it ain't). 

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