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Jul 23, 2023Liked by Jamie Paul, Alexander von Sternberg

Excellent! Nice close reasoning, really well-done.

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Jul 23, 2023Liked by Jamie Paul, Alexander von Sternberg

Great post!

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At some point, do you ever reflect on the humanity of humanity? Groups exist, of course they do, often by shared culture, shared language, even the same appearance. In my “ask a farmer” mind, I consider all the bad things that might happen if groups with shared culture, language and even appearance select from within that group for their spouse or partner, eventually the group becomes so interrelated that recessive genes cause disease and infertility is a huge problem. Harvard is an interesting example, “black” students may hail from nations across the globe, should these “black” foreign citizens get priority over a “white” or Asian American? At some point the goal must be to reflect American demographics (of citizens) or else it just becomes a melting pot of the world and attended by whoever has the best grades and wherewithal to finance a foreign education. An American college should serve American citizen students with a certain percentage of students from foreign countries just as our country as a whole has a certain percentage of foreign born residents (I think it’s 17% right now but I honestly don’t know the actual data). Would you prefer a Harvard educated lawyer who went to school with his own peers who were all part of a particular ethnic or cultural group or would you prefer a Harvard educated lawyer who has attended school with young adults with backgrounds of extreme poverty and hardship as well as middle class, flyover country sons and daughters of farmers, and learned the customs and cultures of their classmates? A well rounded graduate of a highly esteemed school should be exposed to many other young adults from many other cultures. I asked my Dominican born friend if she would consider it strange or perhaps alarming if she visited the Dominican Republic to visit family and found the majority of the residents suddenly were German or Norwegian and all the stores and businesses served the foods and goods and everyone was speaking a foreign language, entertainment was all in a foreign language, the signs were all in the foreign language and she agreed, yes that would be very disconcerting. We in America are a minority, we have a very low inbreeding coefficient, we celebrate holidays of countries near and far and yet we are only 350 million. Other countries have up to a billion plus citizens. If we admitted 350 million Chinese, our country would lose most of its diversity and become mostly a Chinese nation. This is not saying it’s a “bad” thing, but we would lose much of our genetic diversity which would be a shame. Our culture and country is certainly not perfect, but we attempt to remain kind and tolerant even whilst the media, in desperate search of clicks and ad revenue continue to foment and incite violence by their overly dramatic reporting of an incident between two flawed humans that involved poor judgment or substance abuse that lead to violence. There is no way that the hordes of people would react with such force if the media had not drummed the “injustice” of an altercation between two people who simply look different but who very likely shared a great deal of genetic similarities. It’s our job to refuse to swallow whole the stories and unfactual reports designed to cause us to react with emotion and not reason. Past injustice does not create current injustice, and it’s time we started looking at each other as human being rather than members of groups based on whether we have red hair or large noses or whatever distinction is being focused on by a hysterical media frantic to earn as much money as possible by being so irresponsible.

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