Political Correctness VS. Factual Correctness

[Blademaster]

Blade, I don't agree with your understanding of the scientific community. You seem to figure it as homogenous, like-minded band of chums uncovering truths that only somebody teeming with hubris would dare challenge.

Not really, no.

That said, the genetic differences between races are small and unremarkable.

I'm aware of this.

(We will briefly set aside the fact that shoddy methods and preexisting biases have clouded more than a few race-based studies.)

And this.

Meanwhile, context gets swept under the rug. The data exists, but nobody seems to want to synthesize it with contextual factors and effect productive change.)

Agreed.

I think it's worthwhile trying to live in a politically correct world because prejudice exists. It may not affect you but it does.

The thing is that prejudice DOES effect me, but in an inverse sense: I, as a white male, am held to a higher 'standard' of political correctness than any other demographic. I don't watch much news, but I can think of far more white guys that get basically lynched for being 'insensitive' than I can think of women, blacks, or robots that have done the same thing.

And regardless, I don't think making people walk on eggshells and repress how they feel is conducive to eliminating that prejudice. Prejudice is one of those things that exists because it gets acknowledged so much. I don't expect every minority in America to suck it up and get over hundreds of years of intolerance, but I don't expect them to treat it as their crutch forever, either. I respect people like Darkly far more than I respect people who use their gender or skin color as a voucher.

By scorning those who are willing to critically examine those spaces, we perpetuate the problem.

Also agreed.

Be critical. Recognize that everything doesn't neatly lend itself to scientific inquiry.

I see this all the time. So few people are willing to entertain the fact that the politics of reappropriation might be significantly more intricate than that.

But everything does lend itself to scientific inquiry. Maybe not NEATLY, but putting taboos on progress itself because that progress shows us things we might not necessarily like is asinine and archaic. We don't live in the time of Galileo where speaking the truth gets you killed. We live in the future. The sooner we ditch the taboos and the excuse of "It's more complex so it can't be covered by science because shut up.", the sooner we can learn more, understand more, and let go of the old retard beliefs we're anchored to and continue onward.

Probably shouldn't have posted it. Probably shouldn't respond to the replies it might get.

Preaching to the choir, man. I'm terrified of this thread because the modern world (at least the first world) is so tense and nervous about prejudice that bringing it up in a way that goes against the norm like this is one of the easiest ways possible to become a pariah for life.