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2020-07-18 at 8:50 AM UTC in Name a user you would cry if they diedIf you woke up "cured" I imagine it would scarcely feel like you at all. Maybe god just has a sense of humour.
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2020-07-18 at 8:26 AM UTC in Name a user you would cry if they diedAnyone, especially mmQ. Was majorly not cool when we lost Juicebox.
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2020-07-17 at 12:45 AM UTC in "Race is just a social construct"
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2020-07-17 at 12:43 AM UTC in "Race is just a social construct"
Originally posted by Obbe Ok, so earlier when you said race is a social construct, did you mean it exists as an abstract category of ideas but not as something that exists "out there" as a physical thing, or did you mean it exists as both an abstract category of ideas as well as a physical thing, or what?
There are real patterns of genetic and cultural variations in human beings. Race is a category that uses one, skin colour, to organize human beings. It's a real phenomenon, a real pattern or set of patterns in the world, that we generalize into a word that sums up some essential features of phenomenon. It is a socially constructed category because it is a word we have constructed and understand as an abstraction in a social context.
The problem can be when one uses these associations to create tribalistic generalizations about other patterns, like social criminality or intelligence. -
2020-07-17 at 12:14 AM UTC in Trump knew since March 2019 that Russia was paying Afghani terrorists to kill US soldiers
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2020-07-16 at 3:25 PM UTC in Trump knew since March 2019 that Russia was paying Afghani terrorists to kill US soldiers
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2020-07-16 at 3:24 PM UTC in "Race is just a social construct"
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2020-07-16 at 3:23 PM UTC in What are you doing at the momentHigh as fuck waiting for GF to out home fries in the oven and watch some cartoons with me
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2020-07-16 at 1:06 PM UTC in Just talked to CHZboogers on the phone
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2020-07-16 at 12:55 PM UTC in "Race is just a social construct"
Originally posted by Obbe Is God a social construct? Is Bilbo Baggins a social construct?
How different are different types of real? Is it like a scale from "less real" to "more real", or are the different types of real all equally real? If I pick up a rock off the ground is that equally as real as Bilbo Baggins? If I imagine an invisible dragon is floating above your head is that real?
Am I a social construct?
Depends. Language is a social construct and where you are trying to communicate something, it becomes one, but not necessarily a specific object. Just how you refer to things in the abstract. Same as god or Mr Bilbo.
For example maybe we could agree that "frogs are real" but when you read that you have some mental image of a frog that I put in your head by using the word, but I don't know what specifically will happen with your meaning of the word. That concept of a frog is a social construction. It's an abstract category of ideas, like numbers. I say "3", you think the number "3" but three what? Nothing, you can see 3 happening when you put an apple, an apple and an apple in a row but it's not something that by itself exists "out there" as a physical thing. Does the number 3 have a colour? That's not a question one can answer, it doesn't even make sense, doesn't mean the number 3 isn't real.
Same as money. Same as language. They're real patterns.
Some further reading :
https://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/realpatt.htm -
2020-07-16 at 12:43 PM UTC in Just talked to CHZboogers on the phone
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2020-07-16 at 11:04 AM UTC in Just talked to CHZboogers on the phone
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2020-07-16 at 9:51 AM UTC in I can't stop coomingStop consooming social media and get a job, loser
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2020-07-16 at 9:49 AM UTC in Why hasn't Trump been impeached yet
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2020-07-16 at 9:22 AM UTC in Why hasn't Trump been impeached yet
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2020-07-16 at 9:06 AM UTC in Why hasn't Trump been impeached yet
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2020-07-16 at 9:05 AM UTC in "Race is just a social construct"
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2020-07-16 at 9:03 AM UTC in Just talked to CHZboogers on the phone
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2020-07-16 at 9:02 AM UTC in Trump knew since March 2019 that Russia was paying Afghani terrorists to kill US soldiers
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2020-07-16 at 3:48 AM UTC in Just talked to CHZboogers on the phone
