We all know they are kinda racist. Deeply so in many cases.
But last time I was high, turned off the higher functioning parts of my brain I had a deep revelation about their views.
They think that minority XYZ suffers from worse outcomes because they are inferior.
Duh, you might say. They are bigoted, they are racist. But you aren't really thinking yet. They literally are unable to come to any other conclusion. It's not that they don't see the same world as we do, that they don't see the same data. Many of us try to convince them by explaining to them how certain biases lead to certain outcomes.
But the conservative brain is literally unable to do that. So go on a journey into the conservative mind with me. Turn off your higher thinking skills.
Imagine a world where your success truly boils down to how hard you apply yourself. Where the only thing that stands between you and success isn't luck, or the generational wealth of your parents. Just about the effort you put in. In this world the only difference between you, and the person next to you are the genes you inherited. You are able to get better grades in school? Must be your superior genes. You manage to have a better work ethic/be less prone to burnout? It must be your genes, because you believe everything else to be fair!
So if you notice group XYZ doing worse than the average, what is the only explaination left in a fair and equal world? It must be something genetic, because if it was sheef luck, it would average out. Everybody is treated fairly and is only judged by their merit. So if minority XYZ does worse it must be because there is something inherently wrong with them. And what encapsulates that better genetics?
Eugenics is not a bug in the liberal/conservative mind. It is a feature. It is an inevitable position if your assumptions are that the success of an individual person overwhelming rests on the qualities of that individual, of the work they put in.
I'm not making excuses for them, quite the opposite. I'm pointing out that they are not just believing terrible things, I'm pointing out that those terrible things are perfectly reasonable conclusion in their framework of understanding the world. Their base assumptions are so wrong that they are literally unable to come to reasonable conclusion.
Anyways. I needed to shut down my braincells with weed and booze to sink to that level and have that realisation. So roast me for it I guess.
I think you're touching on something, but you're not quite getting into how Scientism has also lead us here. The liberal/conservative ideology is highly concerned with Rationalism, and posits themselves as the only Science Based Politic. I know I know, Immortal Science etc, but its different definitions of Science. Think about how the scientific process is taught in schools:
It isn't a framework for analysis, its a tool for gleaning universal truths.
This is essential, because as Sociology and Statistics have become more accepted as sciences, it means simple statistical analysis becomes causation instead of just correlation. In the average liberal/conservative mind, for the most part, the scientist couldn't possible fail to operationalize a variable. Like, think about who shit talks the definition of Intellectual Quotients. It's all leftists. It's why the whole "despite making up 14% of the population" fascist copy pasta is such effect propaganda in the west. We accept Criminal as an Operational Variable for Bad Person, (even studies that don't say this often have it implicitly buried in there) and then observations such as "this race is more likely to in the criminal system" as a Universal Truth About That Race.
I mean really it has to do with the faith in systems in general. Like in the case above, it's also a given that the US prison system is just, or at least that their injustice is spread somewhat equally across demographics
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