The identification of individuals as their race, rather than themselves.
Well, steelmanning your Chomsky sentence, I assume you mean treating someone's race as the only meaningful information about them. In that case you might want to actually read what I wrote.
It is an assertion that the way you treat others should reflect the way you wish to be treated.
In that case it is completely irrelevant to the discussion. For your convenience here is a summary of the debate up to this point:
Me: We should admit that some people are smarter/less prone to criminality/better than others and that these differences correlation with things like race, etc.
You: there's still somebody smarter than you. While you consider what to do to -your- lessers, consider whether you want your betters to follow your example.
Me (slightly confused by your irrelevant assertion but willing to steelman it by using the conversational convention of relevance): That looks like a fully general counter argument against admitting that differences in intelligence exist.
You: That's not what I meant.
In that case what did you mean and how was it relevant to my point?
I do not regard people's religions relating to race as being truths.
Do you agree that there is a fact of the matter on the questions relating to race?
Well, steelmanning your Chomsky sentence, I assume you mean treating someone's race as the only meaningful information about them. In that case you might want to actually read what I wrote.
No. I mean treating race as a meaningful property of a person in the first place.
In that case what did you mean and how was it relevant to my point?
You start from where you responded to me - the conversation began before that, so my context for this conversation is apparently different from yours. Which is to say - the problem is not the relevance of what I say ...
This sort of thinking seems bad:
This sort of thinking seems socially frowned upon, but accurate:
Similar points could be made by replacing a/b with [group of people]. I think it's terrible to say something like:
But to me, it doesn't seem wrong to say something like:
Credit and accountability seem like good things to me, and so I want to live in a world where people/groups receive credit for good qualities, and are held accountable for bad qualities.
I'm not sure though. I could see that there are unintended consequences of such a world. For example, such "score keeping" could lead to contentiousness. And perhaps it's just something that we as a society (to generalize) can't handle, and thus shouldn't keep score.