XOmniverse is not addressing my position.

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[katsumorymoto]

TVP is just totally outside our grasp as a planet. We COULD make ONE of these cities, but it would be a humongous dent in our economy (at least $500B).

If TVP could only just modify their idea slightly, it'd be a terrific concept. Have the US Congress reduce bullshit spending and start making the food industry a government run and controlled industry. Gradually repeat for manufacturing, utilities, transportation.. and voila, you're basically there. Congress needs a survival-based budget imo.

[Luigi84289]

that's a good point. We naturally are attracted towards people that look like us.

[Luigi84289]

Racism is a product of the state. Without the state you do whatever makes the most profit. He's already made videos on this. Without the state racism would die. You don't have this artificial entity physically blocking either through direct physical methods or financial legislation. The US is financially segregated and anyone who tries to say anything about fixing the situation or that it exists is dubbed a racist. If we got rid of welfare racism could not exist in the long term.

[XSamal]

If ethnic segregation is just what would make me happy, what I desire in itself, then there is nothing irrational about my position for you to criticise.

It is quite possible for someone to love and value something, like their family or a favourite ornament, without referring to another underlying preference, and the same extends to any subjective class of people that a person identifies with, whether or not this is a real biological category or if this distinction serves some other purpose.

[XSamal]

Not necessarily. I might value people of European descent, or their phenotype, for its own sake - regardless of IQ, genetic kinship etc. Maybe the idea that race is a social construct doesn't conflict with my preference. You are generalising racialism, when you say that racialists cannot value their perceived race or ethnic group in and of itself, as a primary source of value.

[brainpolice2]

By concentrating solely on the preference to segregate, you are overtly sidetracking away from the fact that there are truth claims involved here. The use of race and IQ stats to prove innateness and causation is a truth claim. The premise that it is in one's best interest to segregate is a truth claim. The premise that there is such thing as a broad category of "races" which can be classified as having their own psychologies and values is a truth claim. Your sophistry cannot get around this.

[brainpolice2]

As I already explained to you, this is a false analogy - truth claims are not the same thing as "what I like" claims. The epistemological premises of racism are not comparable to what flavor of ice cream one likes. It is misleading, as well as a copy-catted molyneuxian talking point out of context, to try to pull this off. It is *not* just a preference set - the "preferences" have *reasons*. The *reasons* for the "preferences" are false. Racism is more than a "preference", it is a truth claim.

[brainpolice2]

This clear tendency to selectively make attacks on "the left" while opening the door wide open for the most reactionary and extreme elements of "the right", by pandering to them, enabling them and legitimizing them, is simply disturbing. You apologize for and play the victimology card for theocrats, racists, nationalists and patriarchs while implying that broad anti-authoritarians are the truth authoritarians for daring to have values and objecting to such things.

[brainpolice2]

You have also, through various comments, made it quite clear that you more or less consider the entire "cultural left" to be "modal" emotivists who want to "force their preferances on everyone", while at the same time you have treated arch-conservative and european nationalist groups as "understandable" (in your own words), and portrayed them as essentially innocent, if not "victims". This is hypocritical and downright incorrect, and reduces to a form of victimology in and of itself.

[brainpolice2]

You have demonstrated, over and over again, that you clearly do not find racial separatism to be fundamentally objectionable in and of itself. You have also demonstrated, over and over, that you accept, to one degree or another, the idea that science and empirical statistics prove innate causation determining intelligence, psychological and behavioral traits of "races" in a fairly general way. This, by the very least, puts you in the Charles Murray category of racism.