24 question political philosophy test

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Race has little to no biological basis and is primarily a social construct.

This is an objective fact and should have no correlation with political views.

Sickle-cell anemia says hello.

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I got E 47, S 39. However, I'm going to skip over the economic section and go straight to the social,
 since the premises in the questions are so skewed.

Social Policy

Multiculturalism and the increasing diversification of our society is a good thing.

I suppose the multiculturalism/melting pot dichotomy is a fair barometer for social opinion in this day and age.

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So now being a social "liberal" requires active engagement in social ostracism for those they disagree with? That is a contradiction in terms; more indicative of social totalitarianism (and we all know that the definitions of these terms will change with time to mean "anyone I do not like")

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Toleration and freedom for those engaging in heterodox behavior is now a right-wing position apparently; being a social "liberal" now mandates celebration and elevation of said behavior.

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So blind advocacy of both a scientific hypothesis (with a poor track record of out-of-sample forecasting) and consequent catastrophe is requisite for social "liberalism"?

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Oh look - an actual civil liberties issue! Although I suppose this should be followed by two questions asking if marijuana use is socially acceptable and whether those opposed to marijuana use should be ostracized from civil society.

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The question seems to imply that disparate outcomes ought to be the motivation behind reforming the criminal justice system, rather than the prosecution of victimless crimes, which is an injustice regardless of the race of the perpetrator. The premise of the question implies that black-on-black crime is not a real phenomenon.

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So the meritocracy of the process is immaterial, so long as the quantity of influx is increased (except for Europeans and Levantine Christians, of course)?

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Again, the premise seems to be that social "liberals" must believe minorities are totally free of agency for their own position in life. That a means of rectifying these differences is granting special illiberal privileges to these minorities in admissions and hiring is a contradiction in terms.

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See my comments above. I suppose DNA is also a social construct.

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Patriots cannot be social "liberals"? Granted I think pride in one's country is rather silly, but no more so than whatever the heck "citizen of the world" is.

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Agree, although I am not sure this is really a social issue.

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Social "liberalism" now mandates not just amnesty for those violating (what they consider to be) an unjust law, but actively favoritism toward those who have violated said law? Those who were earlier in the queue for residency status but chose not to violate international borders would not be granted citizenship under this arrangement.

[mencken]

Race has little to no biological basis and is primarily a social construct.

This is an objective fact and should have no correlation with political views.

Sickle-cell anemia says hello.

Obviously genetic traits can show up in ethnic groups. Doesn't mean that "race" is real. A Greek is not necessarily more closely related to an Icelandic than he is to an Ethiopian.

Try harder next time.

Once again, the DNA evidence does not agree with your predetermined conclusion:

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Hmm, what is this Caucasoid mitochondrial DNA he is referring to? I thought it was just a social construct? I do not think some examples of racial ambiguity among ethnic groups undercut the idea that race exists at all.

[mencken]

Race has little to no biological basis and is primarily a social construct.

This is an objective fact and should have no correlation with political views.

Sickle-cell anemia says hello.

Obviously genetic traits can show up in ethnic groups. Doesn't mean that "race" is real. A Greek is not necessarily more closely related to an Icelandic than he is to an Ethiopian.

Try harder next time.

Once again, the DNA evidence does not agree with your predetermined conclusion:

Stop. You're just humiliating yourself. Ethnicity exists, obviously. Genetic traits among closely-related people exist, obviously.

The idea that humanity is divided into 3 (or is it 4? 5?) "races" that are all more closely related within each other than without is not supported by DNA evidence. It's all a big continuum.

Arguing that a variable is continuous rather than discrete is very different from arguing that said variable is nonexistent.