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Post 280

Saturday, July 21, 2012 - 11:21pmSanction this postReply
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Hi Doug,

You wrote,
Brad Turn sounds like he is a Rand influenced...
Doug, as you have made clear in your post, there is no real correspondence between Rand and Trun, nor between Objectivism and Trun. And the same is true of anyone else's race-focused arguments. Trun's claim to be in tune with Rand or Objectivism is something that exists only in his mind.
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If you agree with Rand's central point about politics - that rights are moral principles that stem from a human's conceptual faculty, ie volition, and not the degree of intellectual capacity then you must believe in individual rights.
Well, said.
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What does racialism add to the moral / political debate? NOTHING.
So true!
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Objectivist philosophy is the answer not race realism and political biologism.

We need more Ayn Rand inspired thinking and less Larry Austerism. Race realism Must lead to political collectivism and statism. Turn has proved that over and over in this thread.
Yes. That is exactly where it would go.

I believe that every one of Trun's flawed arguments were successfully exposed here on RoR. It sounds like you have made your way out of that nasty rabbit-hole of pseudo-science. You nailed the moral and political arguments quite well in your post. The alleged scientific arguments vary, but many of them rest on a gross misunderstanding of human intelligence.

As an aside, people at this site will take different positions on the argument as to whether or not the government has the right to stop anyone from crossing the border and what the underlying issues are - but I don't think anyone (apart from Trun) would argue race.

(Edited by Steve Wolfer on 7/21, 11:24pm)


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Sunday, July 22, 2012 - 11:21amSanction this postReply
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Thanks Steve.

I agree that Rand and racialism are incompatible. By Rand influenced I just meant that Turn does claim that his views are the inevitable consequence of applying Objectivist epistemology. I think that is wrong but I have never seen a racialist that claims to be influenced by Rand before. That was a first for me.

" It sounds like you have made your way out of that nasty rabbit-hole of pseudo-science."

Most of the way. I still have many questions about the effects of biology on human behavior, especially in the sexual realm. But I no longer believe in political biologism. I am a committed Laissez-faire minarchist. Pretty much every racialist I have seen is a racial conservative or an explicit white nationalist. In fact, before discovering the racial conservative and Human Bio-Diversity movements, I didn't realize just how popular white nationalism is. It seems that there is an entire demographic of frustrated white conservatives that believe the only way to challenge Leftist egalitarianism is through explicit white race conscious racialism. Turn is not that bad but he still shows signs of being a racial conservative. This type of mindset believe that any version of libertarianism, Objectivism included, is flawed and suicidal; ie "atomistic individualism will lead to societal collapse". The belief is that government must control culture and that means regulating tightly the racial composition of society. Diversity is thought to inevitably lead to welfare-statism and egalitarian leftism. This, I think, is the legacy of philosophic materialism.

"The alleged scientific arguments vary, but many of them rest on a gross misunderstanding of human intelligence."

That was your argument throughout this thread and it is an interesting one. I am open to the argument that there are hereditary differences in intelligence, sexual temperament, impulsivity, etc. But I don't believe that moral or political conclusion can be drawn from them. As for the science, I have to do more reading on that before I make up my mind.

"As an aside, people at this site will take different positions on the argument as to whether or not the government has the right to stop anyone from crossing the border and what the underlying issues are - but I don't think anyone (apart from Trun) would argue race."

I'm one of those Objectivists that has a very restrictive view of open immigration. My views would probably be in the minority here. I reject all the protectionist economic arguments against immigration. But I do think that there are security issues with immigration especially Muslim immigration which I think should be banned (but that is based on my view of Islam which I consider to be a hostile military ideology and not a peaceful private religious belief system). But I'll eventually get to discussing those on an appropriate thread.

This is a good O'ist forum from what I have read. I can't think of another O'ist forum that would even allow a discussion of racialism. Only Lindsay's site would but no one is really interested in debating it there.

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Sunday, July 22, 2012 - 1:48pmSanction this postReply
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Oh. Damn, I'm sorry, Doug.   :c/   My bad.

(When will I learn not to post after midnight?)


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Sunday, February 23, 2014 - 2:35amSanction this postReply
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Google "kinism" for some scary hits.



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Sunday, February 23, 2014 - 11:27amSanction this postReply
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Crap I missed this! Hey Doug!

Woow Luke!



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