Comments by "Remy Lebeau" (@remyllebeau77) on "Why it's worth listening to people you disagree with | Zachary R. Wood" video.

  1. Myn It comes with the underlying assumption that black people are usually not very well spoken. Otherwise there would be no reason to exclaim "Hey, you speak English very well!" It is like saying "Wow, you haven't robbed anyone today, good job!" It has an air of condescension, don't you think? It is also racist to mention general trends and stereotypes in the black community like single motherhood, a disproportionate rate of abortion at 700 or more per day with more being aborted in NYC than were being born, and of the 12,000 gun homicides per year, 4,000 of the victims are young black men. It doesn't matter how truthful the trends and statistics are, it is racist.
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  2. Myn Actually, I was being facetious. I was using common SJW leftist accusations against someone I perceived as being a far leftist, and I don't want you going down that horrible path to being a SJW just because of my insincerity and mockery. There is nothing wrong with criticizing or complementing people, and "microaggression" is a made up term to condemn white people for nonsense like looking at black people the wrong way or complementing them the wrong way, with no consideration for context or intent. It is oppression Olympics at it's heart, which is beyond despicable.
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  3. Listening to people is meaningless if you have no intention of changing your views based on facts. Similarly, it is meaningless if the two sides can not agree on what is or isn't fact. It means that at least one of them is delusional and has a twisted view of reality. Why waste time talking about how claims from people like Murray make you feel and offends the professionally offended? Either the intelligence of different races has been studied, or it hasn't. Either those studies are valid and show a difference, or they don't. Whether it is based on mostly genetics or mostly environment or anywhere in-between, why would anyone assume that every race has the same intelligence on average? Why would supposedly racist white people invent false statistics without making it look like white people were better than everyone else?
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  4. You can't say a black person is well spoken, that's racist.
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