Cyclist wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 4:11 pm
Malcolm Armsteen wrote:OK. This may not be popular, but it bears on the Woke argument.
We know that Black and Asian people have been more adversely affected than other groups.
We think we know the answer to that (social deprivation, front-line actors etc.) but we aren't sure.
If someone asks the question 'Is the virus perceived differently in some cultural groups?' the answer isn't 'fuck off you racist bastard' it's 'Don't know. We could check that.'
Then - 'yes, that was right, this is what we're doing about it' or 'that was wrong, don't say it again or you will then be being a racist bastard.'
With the more devout Muslims, does "insha'Allah" have something to do with it? A sort of fatalism along the lines of "No point taking precautions. If God wiils we will be fine."
As in whatever happens will be the will of God. A sort of devout piety you rarely see among Western Christians?
Please don't all shout at me at once, I'm only trying to make sense of something I don't grok in fullness.
OK I'll bite: Based on the Faiths I where I have some limited knowledge.
Islam: generally a pretty rational bunch, but most of my friends apear to be prepared to abandon reason for a bit of inshallah at the most stressful times.
Christians:
You really have to cross the Irish sea, or the Atlantic to find the kind of protestant fundamentalism that places irrational faith above science.
Catholics - for the older more devout ones, see Islam.
Buddhists: Generally the most sensible, but there's a fair bit of associated woo if you dig deep enough.
OK, anybody I've not offended?
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. Aristotle