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Vince Dao Wrecks Liberals by — Wait for It — Denying Genetic Determinism

Posted on | February 12, 2023 | 3 Comments

Vince Dao is a young Christian conservative college student in Florida who has a YouTube channel. He somehow got invited onto a panel discussion by Vice in which the subject was anti-Asian bias and the “model minority” stereotype. Everybody else on the panel was some kind of woke leftist, dressed like slobs, and Dao shows up in a suit and tie and starts dishing out hard truths. Video clips went viral this week.

The points that Dao is making are basically the same points that Charles Murray made in his 1984 book Losing Ground, i.e., that long-term poverty is a behavioral problem, and that if you avoid certain behaviors like out-of-wedlock births, the chances are you won’t be poor. The statistical evidence is very clear on this subject, and it shouldn’t be controversial, but the Democratic Party is dedicated to promoting the belief that poverty is a black problem caused by white racism, and so if you point out the facts — that it is behavior, and not race, which causes poverty — Democrats will accuse you of racism.

If you watch this Vice panel discussion, what you realize is that the woke liberals have bought into what can only be described as a genetic determinist view of behavior, believing that different ethnic groups behave differently because it’s programmed into their DNA, so that criticizing harmful behaviors — school failure, drug abuse, crime, etc. — associated with poverty is considered to be a “racist” attack on black people, as if (a) all black people engage in these behaviors and (b) bad behavior is inherent to being authentically black.

Well, as an Appalachian-American, am I doomed to a life of moonshine, banjos, feuding and incest? Must I become a hillbilly stereotype, because it’s programmed into my DNA? Of course not, no more than black people are helpless to resist the cultural forces that would encourage them to engage in harmful behaviors. While it may be difficult to swim against the cultural tide — up here in the hills, surrounded by banjo-picking moonshine guzzlers — ultimately individuals are responsible for their own choices, and it is an evasion of responsibility to blame your problems on social forces beyond your control. But it is now apparently considered “progressive” to believe that people are helpless victims of their circumstances, and so when Vince Dao started arguing in favor of personal responsibility, everybody else on the panel freaked out.



 

 

Category: Liberals, Racism

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