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Falsehoods and unfalsifiable assertions you must accept to support the progressive system of power:
1. Minorities can't be racist;
2. Women can't be sexist;
3. Conservatives can't be feminists;
4. There's no genetic basis to any social outcome;
1. Minorities can't be racist;
2. Women can't be sexist;
3. Conservatives can't be feminists;
4. There's no genetic basis to any social outcome;
5. White people are innately sinful (privileged);
6. The US is a white supremacist country and oppression is rampant across western civilisation;
7. 42 unarmed black men (and 95 unarmed white men) being shot and killed by police every year constitutes "systemic racism";
6. The US is a white supremacist country and oppression is rampant across western civilisation;
7. 42 unarmed black men (and 95 unarmed white men) being shot and killed by police every year constitutes "systemic racism";
8. Progressives are fighting a "system of power", not constructing one;
9. Diversity lessens the prevalence of racism;
10. All cultural values are equally valid and there are no universal cultural truths, just relative truths;
9. Diversity lessens the prevalence of racism;
10. All cultural values are equally valid and there are no universal cultural truths, just relative truths;
11. Language is power and an impoverished white man is infinitely more powerful than a rich black man;
12. Slavery still has a strong influence on social outcomes today;
13. Reality is a person's perception of it; there is no objective shared reality;
12. Slavery still has a strong influence on social outcomes today;
13. Reality is a person's perception of it; there is no objective shared reality;
14. We can infer "oppression" from the results of a univariate analysis/average of everyone's wages;
15. "Gender" is wholly a social construct rather than shaped by innate differences in the characteristics and traits of men and women;
16. There are more than two "genders";
15. "Gender" is wholly a social construct rather than shaped by innate differences in the characteristics and traits of men and women;
16. There are more than two "genders";
17. Speech is violence, free speech is dangerous and people can't be held responsible for their actions in response to speech they deem "hateful";
18. White people should be held collectively responsible for the actions of their ancestors, non-white people shouldn't;
18. White people should be held collectively responsible for the actions of their ancestors, non-white people shouldn't;
19. Neologisms constructed and propagated by non-progressives comprise the insidious "system of power", but neologisms constructed and propagated by progressives (eg, "diversity", "LGBT", "gender", etc.) don't.
20. Ostracising and shaming people is righteous;
20. Ostracising and shaming people is righteous;
21. Progressivism had something to do with civil rights, or is an extension of liberalism;
22. Human behaviour, spirituality and morality can be intellectualised and quantified;
23. Animals belong in the same moral sphere as human beings;
22. Human behaviour, spirituality and morality can be intellectualised and quantified;
23. Animals belong in the same moral sphere as human beings;
24. "LGBT rights" don't conflict with multiculturalism, "transsexual rights" don't conflict with "women's rights";
25. Moral consistency is irrelevant;
26. Outcomes are more important than opportunities;
27. We must prepare the road for the child rather than child for the road;
25. Moral consistency is irrelevant;
26. Outcomes are more important than opportunities;
27. We must prepare the road for the child rather than child for the road;
