The Minority Argument killer
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Let us propose a hypothetical - some leftie comes at you with a "minority" support argument. Ive been playing with this, and found the dark heart at its core. It all boils down to the idea of the minority. Heres 5 bullets that i think will help kill it in all but the most brainwashed. It certainly will hit them with a dose of cognitive dissonance.
- The deepest, and one of the most diverse minority groups in the world is the super rich. They exist among all races, are usually numbering less than 100 wherever they are, and have the most to lose in life from the majority.
- This "minority" is the one you are most deeply against as a leftie (and we here hate most of them for being cabalites too, but that's a tangent), and yet it always seems to benefit the most from your efforts to help what you think are minorities.
- This specific minority you claim is "the white man", thus ignoring the plight of poor white men and women all over the world, and presuming there are no wealthy black, arab, asian, or other non-white individuals. So racist, isn't it, to presume wealth based on skin tone.
- As this minority has the smallest size of all groups, but the greatest influence in how the world works, surely this negates the idea that "minorities have no influence" ?
- Most of this minority is probably footing the bill for your side's activism, and we can prove it with receipts. They certainly are the biggest beneficiary.
If they try to redirect it, just focus on the minority point, and keep them from claiming its only a PoC issue.
True, but the point still remains that evrn in impoverished countries, there are still people with all the cash (mainly due to corruption). They may not be billionaires, but their influence is what gives billionaires elsewhere cheap access to the material (and labour) they want. All about those networks at the end of the day...
Every nation has its winners and losers in this con game we live through. My argument is your initial truism. Why does it matter if elites in zimbabwe or india have less capital than us bankers if the effects of said disparity are the same regionally?
Also, i'm not sure why you would weaken the analysis by adding loads of global stat noise to an issue that exists in each nation expressly, and can only be effective tackled at that level. All that you are suggesting will do is hide the local level elites among a pool of much wealthier elites, and also changes the nature of the argument altogether. The people on that list still need the local elites to get access to what they want in that region.
Also nice strawman. Not all competitions are equal, but the question isnt who is the strongest elite. It is what their race is.
Also false analogy. Countries have thousands to run comparisons against. A household can't usually hold that many by any stretch, even when it's Billy G's house.
If you are gonna devil's advocate, at least do it well...
Which is why im not comparing elites with other elites. Im comparing elites to their local regions consistently, and the 99% of others there, consistently.
To put it another way, you are directly biasing the data to more western societies using your methodology.