The problem is that Droopy's argument ignores the fact that labeling a culture to be inferior is racist.
It may be. It may also be the result of completely rational and intelligent comparison and contrast within a framework of accepted standards. It may be either, on a case by case basis.
This, of course, is one of the standard tropes of the contemporary progressive Left utilized to circumvent and shut down serious discourse before it even begins, and to preserve the Left's sham moral hegemony in the marketplace of ideas.
To be perfectly clear, I'm not talking about the mythical people in the Book of Mormon now, I'm talking about the living people that the Book of Mormon applies to; The American Indian enrolled tribal members in the US. The Book of Mormon is racist by the definition given in
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous PeoplesPage 2
Affirming further that all doctrines, policies and practices based on or advocating superiority of peoples or individuals on the basis of national origin or racial, religious, ethnic or cultural differences are racist, scientifically false, legally invalid, morally condemnable and socially unjust
No intelligent person takes the vast, all-encompassing and logically incoherent statements subscribed to by a gaggle of communists, Marxists, fascists, thugs, kleptocrats, and self anointed, self serving philosopher kings seriously anymore (if they ever did). This is a potpourri of concepts, some of which have obvious, but vague and indistinct relations to each other, and others which have none ( national origin, religion, ethnicity, and culture have no necessary connection to race, nor to each other except on a case by case basis. One can be Chinese, Christian, have been born in Norway, and be culturally Norwegian, just as one can be black, raised in Taiwan (ethnically Taiwanese), be a Confucian, and like Jazz. "Race" is just the human race, unless one is using it as Joseph and the Book of Mormon use it, as interchangeable with ethnicity and culture. Darth admits as much when he points out inadvertently that, for Joseph, both the Lamanites and Nephites, whom Darth wants us to think church doctrine posits as a different "race" from the Nephites and from modern Caucasians, were nothing more than divergent ethnicities and cultures.
The same is true with regard to the Jaradites, who were
just as much from the House of Israel as the Lamanties and the Nephites, and hence, a divergent culture and ethnic background, not different "races" in the pre and especially post-antebellum South and modern PC sense.
Mormonism does in fact teach that American Indians must accept the LDS gospel or they remain cursed.
As must all who do not accept it, including entire cultural groups in a generalized sense who's overarching traditions and culture (excepting certain individuals within it) are incompatible with the gospel (modernist Western Caucasian "gentile" culture, for example, as prophesied in the Book of Mormon itself).
This is called, "banality."
Droopy did make mention of existing degenerate cultures.
Yes, I did. Not races.
