The Religious Conviction that America is Systemically Racist

April 1, 2023 By Richard McDonough

Since the Democrats use the accusation that America is systemically racist to divide the country and stay in money and power, philosophy Prof. Boghossian posts a video of a discussion with two university students, a white male (hereafter M) and a white female (hereafter F), on the notion that “America is racist”. They are asked to state their degree of support: strongly agree, agree, slightly agree, neutral, slightly disagree, disagree, strongly disagree.................

The first of these new arguments is the fallacy of begging the question (circular reasoning), that is, assuming what one purports to prove (the claim that America is founded in racist ideals simply repeats, in different words, the claim that America is systemically racist).  The second of her new arguments, that America is systemically racist because of the land was stolen long ago, is the genetic fallacy, i.e., fallacious arguing for a conclusion solely based on origins.  One cannot prove that America is racist now because it allegedly was racist long ago. ............

Neither student has good reasons for their view that America is racist.  They have slogans and bumper stickers. They display no serious critical reasoning abilities.  These are only two cases but they reflect the uncritical indoctrination being prevalent on university campuses these days.  It would appear that student confidence in their political beliefs is inversely proportional to the actual strength of the evidence.  In all likelihood, M and F subscribe to the popular unfalsifiable campus religious belief that America is racist because they believe this makes them virtuous (another ad populum fallacy).  Real virtue is a much harder task..................To Reads More

My Take -  One commenter noted: 

 "I have noticed that the less people have thought about why they believe something, the more strongly they hold to the belief. Asking their reason for believing is like setting a match to gunpowder."

Academia was contaminated with this lot for years, but in the 60's all these paragons of intellectual independence collapsed under the heel of leftist violence by both white and black radicals who were allowed to run rampant over academia.  Once their ivory tower safety became threatened, all that bloviating about their academic independence disappear like fog in sunlight, and then all of a sudden received "enlightenment", embracing stupidity, insanity, and craven cowardice.

That was much safer, and more profitable, since the most craven of them all were put in charge. They all retired and turned over the reins of power to the most incompetent and the dumbest. 

As the years have gone by it became obvious that if you took out the lies, misdirection, lack of definition, and logical fallacies out of leftist's conversations we could actually attain true harmony from them. Silence!

It's far past the time was stopped funding "higher" education in America.