Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Darth J wrote:Yes. Unless you are a member of, or have lived among, every conceivable demographic group under which humans could be categorized, you are a hypocrite for advocating equal rights for everyone.
That is, after all, how people form value judgments, and why only antebellum plantation owners were competent to form an opinion about slavery.
Don't you think it'd be helpful to live among Black people if you're going to talk on their behalf?
It's almost like an inactive Catholic-Mormon posting this board about things he asserts are Mormon, but are patently false.
- Doc
No, that's terrible reasoning. Talking on behalf of the same legal rights for everyone, irrespective of race, is not "talking on behalf of black people."
Since you imply that you have lived in an area with a higher black population than, say, Utah or Montana, that means you only get to say Caucasians and African Americans get equal rights. But you are not able to say as a value judgment that you think Vietnamese, Jewish, Iranian, or Navajo people are also entitled to equality until you have lived in their neighborhoods, too. So what we'll do is invert the American political value of equality under the law and Balkanize it, so that you're only qualified to advocate for equal rights for your immediate neighbors, not the country at large.
Because that makes a lot of damned sense.
ETA: For example, even though I think she's a hypocrite, I absolutely believe Ms. Jack makes on-the-spot observations about Mormonism because she gets it. Why? Welp... She has lived among Mormons for a good portion of her life, and she understands their mindset, culture, and ideology. She's a subject matter expert.
So. Yes. I think living amongst a demographic you're going to... Whatever... Is absolutely helpful to your cause.
Therefore, until MsJack has lived among Wiccans, Scientologists, Anglicans, Quakers, Buddhists, Sikhs, Anabaptists, agnostics, and Lutherans, it would be hypocritical for her to say that everyone is entitled to freedom of religion.