cjjc0 comments on The Argument from Common Usage - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cjjc0 08 August 2014 05:53:07PM 0 points [-]

Quick note - the sentence "If you want to know whether blacks are people, the dictionary can't answer you," in comparison to the sentence "Or consider the fight to blend together blacks and whites as 'people'," unnecessarily normalizes whites as people (though, historically, that is how the fight felt from the white perspective). I don't know if you should change this, but I just wanted to point it out.

Altogether, good post!