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In FDR3077 Stefan makes the claim: If there were cases of actual wrong doing by the police where the police are exonerated for killing someone due to racism, then these cases would be front and center rather than the false stories that they are choosing to report on instead. Would they? I believe I have heard Stefan make this claim in other places as well. Stefan is now speculating as to the motives of the media for reporting falsehoods. Since we are speculating about motives, I have an alternative theory: Suppose the motive of these false reports were divide and conquer. Would it make sense to report obviously true stories of police racism? If you report the true story, then everyone rational is going to agree that racism is a problem and there will be unity. However, if you trump up a false story, the rational people are going to oppose such a story and be lumped in with racists. So, reporting a true story about racism is uniting. We can see this with the civil rights movement starting in the 1950’s. Television showed what racism really looks like and rather than dividing, it united whites with blacks because they were both abhorred by what was actually going on. Now, suppose instead of showing blacks sprayed with firehoses for protesting or being arrested for trying to eat at a restaurant, the media showed false examples of racism and then tried to hold them up as true examples of racism while intentionally ignoring or even burying the true examples? Would that divide or unite people? My point here is that maybe rational people are being manipulated more than we think. Maybe there really are plenty of true examples of police racism but they are not being reported because the media has a divide and conquer agenda and reporting true examples of police racism would unite people rather than divide them. Any thoughts?

It was proposed to me through literature that society is a racial construct rather than race being a societal construct. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When I have listened to Stefan on the podcast there have been many guests who point at data that shows very compelling evidence at the very least for for bio-diversity among the races. If there is significant Bio-Diversity would that not imply the State to be a Racial Construct even if only to varying degrees? I am in great desire to see what others think. Thank you Stefan for this platform and if you write anything then Thank You In Advance. To all else who post responses thank you in advance as well. Thank all who help me shed some light on these thoughts.

Earlier today I saw a re-tweet by Mike Cernovich for a poll posted by @freeyourmindkid asking if a person was a racist if they voted for Trump for any reason. At the time I saw the poll it was 75% racist yes, and 25% racist no. I voted no ofc and posted a picture of me and my wife, and then I stated I was Trump supporter and asked if I was a racist and if my wife was one too. Unanimously the tweets came back stating that I was indeed a racist, and a fascist. That I was like Jefferson and Strom Thurman. I was respectful to them and said how I loved my wife and their logic was flawed because how could I love somebody as my wife and racist to her and our children. Again, I was told I was racist, and indeed the worst kind of insidious racist. Later checking back on the thread I saw that the no vote was quickly gaining on the yes votes and was near parity. I suspect that Mike Cernovich's attention brought unwanted attention to the post by reasonable people who began to swing the vote. Not one single person on the tread told me I was not a racist. NOT ONE. This is where the left has taken many people in the black community and guilt ridden progressives. I thought maybe a couple of people may have had some reason in their heads, but they not only thought I was racist, but most seemed to hate me, and hate me even more for marrying a black woman. This massive and collective disconnect with reason and understanding is symptomatic of the utter brain-washing the left has induced into the progressive/democrat side. I have no idea how we are ever going to correct this insane ideology. I suppose all I can do is live my life and teach my children not to fall into the trap these poor people have. I was shocked and surprised by the crazy racism that was confronting me. They were collectively propelling this madness forward. inevitably it will come to a terrible end somehow or just fade away as this ideology is proven false over time. Later checking back I was blocked by @freeyourmindkid I suspect the poll he posted did not go the way he wanted and he deleted it. Anyway, i thought I'd share this crazy experience with everyone.

A recent audit of the Baltimore Police Department (https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3009376/BPD-Findings-Report-FINAL.pdf) concluded "intentional discrimination" by the police. This has been a big point of anger for the Black Lives Matter movement and social justice warriors of all kinds, groups which generally clash with libertarians, especially the more conservative. Should police keep to ideals and not stray to pragmatism in the name of order? If a group of people is committing disproportionate amounts of crime, is it legitimate to target that group disproportionally? Is this a sign of things getting worse or better?

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So apparently this is a test that can determine if you are racist. http://www.understandingprejudice.org/iat/racframe.htm I figured I might as well try it.. Oh boy. My results: Welp, looks like I'll have to cut ties with all my black friends No but in all seriousness, it seems like the way the test is done is biased. It's a reaction based test, and on the second half it switches the controls around so that I went through much slower. Is this really a valid test as the site claims? I have a feeling if it were to reverse the order of races in the test it would show me as a strong automatic preference for "African Americans".. I wasn't very surprised with those results honestly. What really bothered me is the fact that a tool is on a website supposedly for "students, teachers, and others interested in the causes and consequences of prejudice.". Yeah it's been 5 years since I was in public school, but damn, indoctrinating students into feeling guilt by using pseudo tests? Seems they've really ramped up the propaganda. Apparently there are even textbooks conforming to the narrative of social justice in the USA.. http://www.understandingprejudice.org/anthol.htm

So upon uploading a firestorm of dank anarchist propaganda to my platform, I had one picture that drew a particularly vivid response. Person: My response: Person: So am I really a racist bigot on the inside and I just don't know it? I'm not sure how to respond to this logically, or if it is even possible. I thought about responding with the following: But I'm not sure if that will prove my point either. Help me out philosophy wizards!

Many of you have probably seen my videos in which I illustrate provocative and compelling philosophical thinkers. If you haven’t please check out my YouTube channel Illustrated Philosophy. Here’s the latest one narrated by Stef and Dr. Linda Gottfredson on race and intelligence.

I saw this last night and thought it may be a step in the right direction - an open discussion on race that seemed to include the idea that white people can be discriminated against just like any other group of people. However the internet was abuzz today on how the show is bent on shaming white people and perpetuating more white guilt. Did I miss something in the trailer that speaks to those concerns? Do people think this show can have a positive impact, or is it just more race baiting?

What is your race? Is it an important part of your identity? Is it time to leave this concept behind?

The Truth About the Race War was great. A lot of fascinating historical examples of conspiring to pit people against each other using race as fuel. Toward the end I was like, "...this is a great conspiracy." Has Stefan ever mentioned anything about his take on any other conspiracies specifically?

Along with Stef's recent video on the topic of the Ferguson Shooting, what is your take on this? This campaign seems like a great way to guilt white people into paying money for t-shirts and wristbands so they can appear not-racist.

Hi, i have this issue: My brother, is a little racist about minorities (inmigrants, black people, jews, homosexuals, poor people), he says he it isnt, because he doesnt goes arround banging minorities, that to be a racist one haves to apply violence, his choice is just dont mixing with "these" people that he views as the cancer of society. He denies holocaust, blames illegal inmigrants about jobs, talks about a zionist cospiracies, and thinks that white people is in reality discriminated/segregated, because it doesnt have the possibilities to fight about their own cause or self pride like the self right minorities have, because it is seen as plain racism. Socio economic background: We live and are from south america, Argentina, yes there is a moral decay everywhere, but it is caused by state corruption, instead of marginalized people by society. We belong to white lower medium class/ working class. Our ancestors came here from Italy a long time ago, like new inmigrants are now coming from near countries. For me nationalism, is plainly stupid, in the end, people from near countries, have native descendency from this continent, we are just masses of trash expelled by europe, that came used to motivate the systematic robbery of local natives from power elites. He is just a teeneger, doesnt works, and is in the last years of what there is called high school, is true that we had hard times of fammiliar violence in childhood, but to me is not sane projecting emotional load as hate on minorities. Instead of studying, or trying, to improve new skills/knowledge , he is just compulsively centered on absorving racist biased information. My main problem, is this the more i read, the more desbelief i am, and try to no absorve information/knowledge as packets be it movies, books (philosophy, sciene, politics), internet, etc. I have the impression that all this mass information material that i like/absorve, is just lazy indoctrination, motivated for a need to fill a emotinal craving of knowledge, that in reality has to be formulated within ones rationality, not preaching someone elses truths. To me is hypotrical , to try to contrarest what i think his false arguments are (i have an emotional attachment to think that he has an emotional bias about minorities), without before indoctrinating my own self in contra argumentative authors contrarian to what he is preaching, From one points, he blames chavism, cuban communism, Che Guevara, like mercenaries but in the other end he idealizes nazism (this can be explained because my mother is a lot hippy, lefty, and perhaps he subconsciously blames she for years of misery, passive aggresive violency during childhood). He also hates psychologists. Or blames jews about palestine killing, and denies holocaust. What can i do about this situation? is bad to take his crystal castle ideolegy where he inside plays a chess made from pieces of stereotypes/and prejudices and destroy it?