Yes, I support meritocratic college admissions. No, I am not a racist.

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<p>You’re even editing the tags! Haha, you need some major chill pills. It’s just the internet.</p>

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<p>Can’t even answer a question. Also, what tags?</p>

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<p>Type of propaganda, typically goes something like “Hitler supported X, therefore X must be bad”</p>

<p>A lazy way of logic
“You know who else had Anti-Smoking laws? Hmm, oh who was it… oh yeah, HITLER!” </p>

<p>Anti-smoking laws and national health-care and whatnot isn’t what Hitler was hated for. He was hated for genocide and social darwinism. Social darwinism was removed from school textbooks after World War II. You can’t have an argument about social darwinism without mentioning Hitler.</p>

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<p>How about discrediting Social Darwinism on its own failings? If you can’t do that, then you fail</p>

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<p>There is no such thing as lazy logic. Logic is logic. You can argue that social darwinism = eugenics = Hitler all you want, but the logic is sound. Just because he believed in it does not make it wrong. Just because Hitler was a vegetarian does not make it wrong. Just because Hitler supported the occult does not make it wrong. Social Darwinism may be wrong for other reasons, but your logic was flawed when you relied on relating things to Hitler or Nazis to argue a point. Hence, Reductio ad Hitlerum and Godwin’s Law. I rest my case.</p>

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<p>Was hitler hated for being an occultist vegetarian?</p>

<p>I already argued that social darwinism is evil because it reduces other races to species, birth.</p>

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<p>No- it just acknowledges the significant differences amongst the races</p>

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<p>This is a really circular argument</p>

<p>LW: Social darwinism is evil because it reduces non-white races to non-human species. Also, Hitler liked it.
Reach: Reductio ad Hitlerum! (this sounds like a harry potter spell lol)
LW: No, that doesn’t apply.
Reach: Then defeat it on it’s own merits.</p>

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<p>And uses those as an excuse for genocide and eugenics.</p>

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<p>theReach, your logic is okay and is probably better in terms of its soundness. Equating Hitler to eugenics to social darwinism doesn’t make social darwinism wrong in this sense.</p>

<p>But it doesn’t make you look any less of an idiot arguing that social darwinism and eugenics are cool.</p>

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<p>you must have missed the whole “reason for killing 6 million people” part.</p>

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<p>Wow LogicWarrior you struggle with the whole logic thing</p>

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<p>Any reason for killing 6 million people must be bad.</p>

<p>This is morality, not logic, but I’ll hear you out.</p>

<p>Back on topic, I support meritocratic admissions. I just realize that if you get rid of AA you also have to get rid of essays, ECs, and legacy admits.</p>

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<p>How does AA relate to essays and EC’s?</p>

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<p>Neither are meritocratic.</p>

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<p>"you must have missed the whole “reason for killing 6 million people” part. "</p>

<p>I’m only talking about the logic portion of it; it is actually correct. Equating Hitler and eugenics doesn’t mean eugenics is bad if Hitler is your basis of calling it bad. Eugenics is bad in its own way, not because of Hitler.</p>

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<p>eh, in the real world saying “Just because Hitler did it doesn’t make it bad” makes you look like a nazi.</p>

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<p>yea it’s time for this thread to end. LW has said the same thing, like, 200 times and he still doesn’t get it</p>

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<p>chenman put it nicely, social darwinism isn’t evil because of hitler, the world just knows how evil it is because of hitler.</p>

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<p>THIS THREAD MUST DIE
THIS THREAD MUST DIE
THIS THREAD MUST DIE
THIS THREAD MUST DIE
THIS THREAD MUST DIE
THIS THREAD MUST DIE</p>

<p>if one agrees with thhis chant please post it along with your funny message of the day.
Mine:Give yourswlf a good name: Let a stranger drive you home.
I assume you can top that lame one.</p>

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<p>This thread may die, but Darwinism won’t</p>