GEE, WHIZ, AL! | 2007-01-13
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OK, I wrote a reply yesterday but I didn't send it. Here is my rewritten reply after more thinking.
Of course humans are animals. But what I see what you are trying is introduce another frame of thought. But more than that, you are trying to introduce a new Weltanschaunng (world view).
I see the current Weltanschaunng as saying that all people are humans. We have black humans, yellow humans and white humans — but we're all human. And we are more similar than different. Where there are differences, we should work to correct them, not to separate and segregate. Where some are lower, we must try our best to raise them up to our level.
You are trying to introduce a world-view that dehumanizes us. It makes us think of ourselves as animals. Then, we can say the non-whites are lower animals (or lower breeds). It seems like an un-Christian way of thinking. (Or at least the sick brand of Christianity, as you refer to it, that says, "According to the Bible, there are no "races" - there is only one race: the human race. We are all descended from Adam and Eve and diversity came later.")
I'll just say that if many people adopted the latter view, nobody would care about denying the Holocaust anymore.
Comment by YearningForFreedom
ME:
This is one of those "Gee, whiz" answers: "Gee, whiz, but the truth is too COLD!"
The Gee whiz used to be, "Gee whiz, if you think different races have different IQs, you are dehumanizing us. We are all just, well, gosh, humans!" Yes, Al, I consider the whole concept that all men are created equal as pure unmitigated crap the same way the Founding Fathers did.
Average differences in IQ are pretty well accepted now (ever the New York Times admits it!) except in the most remote corners of academia.
If you can't live with reality, that is called insanity.
If we found that chimpanzees were interbreedable with man, would it "dehumanize" us to still consider they are DIFFERENT? Well, gee, whiz, of course it would!
That is the kind of "human" I definitely want to be dehumanized from, the silly kind. We fought all this crap out when Galileo was suppressed for saying the earth is not the center of the universe. Humanity's planet was no longer the center all creation so that dehumanized us.
Hey, Al, after four hundred years, do you think you can accept Galileo now? Four hundred years is a long, long time. I mean, Gee whiz, Al, give the guy a break!