Why the Blank Slate is to Blame for Mass Migration and Hate Speech Laws

Описание: Elon Musk was right when he posted "The Blank Slate fallacy is the root of much evil" on X.

What is the Blank Slate? Do liberals really believe that all human beings are equal — fungible, indistinguishable, replaceable?

Here's a history of tabula rasa, and why this false anthropology is to blame for intolerable policies like mass migration and hate speech laws.

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Works cited:
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke, Two Treatises of Government
Yoram Hazony, Conservatism: A Rediscovery
Patrick Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
Jean Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality
Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
Emily B. Finley, The Ideology of Democratism
Clare Jambers, Sex, Culture, and Justice: The Limits of Choice
R.R. Reno, Return of the Strong Gods
John Gray, 'Why I am not a post-liberal': https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/20...

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