Comments by "Radagast" (@radagast7200) on "Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War | Lex Fridman Podcast #336" video.

I'm gunna go with... short person privilege. Maybe it's his 'my wife is a doctor' privilege...
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A big problem is that collectivist minded groups will tend to assign a pathology to opposition rather than dealing with their arguments honestly. Not only are they potentially ignoring a problem in their collective, but are tacitly admitting that these accusations have merit. For instance, I once critized the actions of Sor.os and was told that I was bring antisemitic. I wasn't, and they knew that, but they didn't want to have an honest conversation about it. By doing that, this person accidentally implied that the bad behavior of Sor.os and semitism are synonymous. To criticize one is to criticize the other. To criticize that behavior is to criticize Semitism itself. Oops.... I don't think he meant to do that and he ended up being the antisemitic one. Another problem, some groups claim that they are allowed to practice in-group preferences (they are) but then those they allow to speak for them will claim other groups are not allowed to have in-group preferences and if they are over-represented in anything, counter oppression is warranted. The ADL is one of the worst offenders in this regard.
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I think it's funny how the ADL will acknowledge these statistics but say it's due to inherent intellectual advantages. Meanwhile if other groups are over represented even by 1% they (The ADL) will blame it on in-group preferences and oppression and demand the scales be weighted.
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@torontoenvironment9899 it certainly seems a bit tribal.
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... are you saying they have an in-group preference? Not that there is anything wrong with that of course, so long as all groups are allowed to have one. If a group (like the ADL) says it's perfectly acceptable for one group to have an in-group preference but if others do it, it's evil oppression... then I would say we have a problem.
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@gloriarutman8516 when I called out Soros for his bad behavior, a Jewish friend called me Anti-semitic for bringing it up. He was obviously just attempting to shut me up and not have to deal with my argument by assigning a mental pathology to me... but by using this myopic tactic, he accidently made the implicit argument that Soros's bad behavior and semitism are inextricably linked. That the behavior and semitism are synonymous. Now... neither of us believed that. He was simply using a collectivist debate tactic he had picked up and wasn't smart enough to follow his own logic to its end... but I wonder how often people are accidently making these arguments in a attempt to strong-arm someone into silence. And those people end up believing their argument. I've had a similar conversation around circumcision. I was told that by opposing it (for non-jewish people) and saying that it was a medical conspiracy, I was engaged in 'antisemitism' ... once again, he accidently implied that not allowing non-jewish people to mutilate their infants genitals was oppressive to Jewish people... think that one through.
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