The Men Who Believed Some Men Are More Equal Than Others

2 pointsposted 5 hours ago
by mitchbob
(nytimes.com)

5 Comments

mitchbob

5 hours ago

Review of Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America by Kim Phillips-Fein

https://archive.ph/iNfDk

hereme888

4 hours ago

I wish by 2026 society would have shaken itself out of the idea that all people are the same.

We are as diverse in appearance and variety of abilities as there are dog breeds.

JohnFen

4 hours ago

Almost nobody has ever claimed that everyone is the same. That's not what "all men are equal" means. What it means is that everyone has the same inherent human rights, and that the law and justice should apply to everyone the same. Nobody should be above the law. There should be no form of aristocracy.

klaff

4 hours ago

> I wish by 2026 society would have shaken itself out of the idea that all people are the same.

If you called me woke, I would say, sure, if by woke you mean that I believe racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia and other bigotries exist both within individuals and as attributes of the systems that people build and we ought to strive to fix that.

I also believe that intelligence is multidimensional such that representing it as a single number is nonsense, and it is not transitive either.

But I do not believe all people are the same. Who does?

hereme888

3 hours ago

That was very eloquent. I don't disagree with anything you said. Too deep for the practical, observable superficial differences in my mind.

Re: other comment above, I'm glad to hear from a broader circle that my stereotypical thinking was too.... stereotypical.