{"id":3502,"date":"2019-11-08T10:51:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T10:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/11\/08\/would-a-cut-in-the-capital-gains-tax-be-racist\/"},"modified":"2019-11-08T10:51:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T10:51:54","slug":"would-a-cut-in-the-capital-gains-tax-be-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/11\/08\/would-a-cut-in-the-capital-gains-tax-be-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Would a Cut in the Capital-Gains Tax be Racist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

But of course<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Most of us think of the capital-gains tax, if we think about it at all, as a policy that is neutral as regards questions of race or racism. But given that blacks are underrepresented among stockowners, Klein asked, would it be racist to support a capital-gains tax cut? \u201cYes,\u201d Kendi answered, without hesitation.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I will leave the logical analysis to my readers. <\/span><\/p>\n

First step: scrutinize 'underrepresented.' What does it mean? Is it perhaps ambiguous? Does it paper over an important distinction?<\/span><\/p>\n

Second step: find other arguments of the same logical form and see if they have true premises and a false conclusion.<\/span><\/p>\n

The purpose of such an exercise is to convince oneself that leftists have lost their minds. There is no point in trying to change their minds. They have vacated the plane of reason. 'Dialog' with them is pointless. They simply have to be defeated or 'quarantined.' Let us hope that their defeat or 'quarantine' can be achieved politically.  <\/span><\/p>\n

We will have to think further about political quarantine<\/em>.  That may sound ominous, but the contemporary hard Left, as represented in the USA by the Democrat Party, is a cesspool of political pathogens inimical to the health of the body politic.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But of course: Most of us think of the capital-gains tax, if we think about it at all, as a policy that is neutral as regards questions of race or racism. But given that blacks are underrepresented among stockowners, Klein asked, would it be racist to support a capital-gains tax cut? \u201cYes,\u201d Kendi answered, without … Continue reading “Would a Cut in the Capital-Gains Tax be Racist?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,15,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-logica-utens","category-race","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}