The new religion of wokeness.
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Not bad, but doesn't focus at all on biological and genetic differences between groups. The primary taboo belief on the left is biological reality exists and that there could possibly be biological differences between people that cause significant differences in outcomes (whether individuals or groups). These two just avoid the most important taboo belief the left has (probably because they also hold it).
This is true, but somewhere along the line I think there needs to be a normie-friendly version of the argument as a "thin end of the wedge". There are a lot of people who are more comfortable speaking in terms of "culture" and the effect that has on outcomes, and for those people I think the point needs to be made where, even if that is true, you are legally prevented from discriminating based on "culture" if those cultural differences correlate to race.
A landlord was prevented from exterminating rats in a building because it would result in an increase in rent which would disproportionately affect the poor tenants who tended to be non-White.. No sane person looks at that and thinks makes any sense, but that is what the Civil Rights Act and Disparate Impact leads to.
Reading The Bell Curve can come as part of a later lesson.
100%! Well-put! The cowardice of people who know better shaming themselves in public by bending over backwards to accommodate this sheer lunacy . . . words fail me.