Relativism

Relativism, roughly put, is the view that truth and falsity, right and wrong, standards of reasoning, and procedures of justification are products of differing conventions and frameworks of assessment and that their authority is confined to the context giving rise to them. More precisely, “relativism” covers views which maintain that—at a high level of abstraction—at least some class of things have the properties they have (e.g., beautiful, morally good, epistemically justified) not simpliciter, but only relative to a given framework of assessment (e.g., local cultural norms, individual standards), and correspondingly, that the truth of claims attributing these properties holds only once the relevant framework of assessment is specified or supplied. Relativists characteristically insist, furthermore, that if something is only relatively so, then there can be no framework-independent vantage point from which the matter of whether the thing in question is so can be established. 

So, what does this mean to us?

It means that we can never achieve the pursuit of equality and equity since this perception of relativism is prevelent in our society.  This is going to be hard for some of us to understand and/or accept.  Logically, we can see that everyone is not the same regarding their height, beauty, athletic or musical ability, and intelligence...  This makes sense to us...  to some degree.  BUT PERCEPTION is not as easily accepted.  And, when one marries perception and personality, then it becomes even more difficult to accept becasuse we do not associate either one of those terms with behavior or ccommunications.

Therein lies our problem.

• What causes someone to become seen as a genius?
• What causes someone to be a doer instead of a thinker?
• What causes someone to be a leader rather than a follower?

While we can never be definitive on answering those questions as there so so many factors that could contribute to the influence, we do accept that perception and personality are some of those influences.

• What motivates a thinker is different than a doer...
• What motivates a genius is different than what motivates a non-genius...
• What motivate a leader is different than what motivates a follower...

Not only is this logical but it is also common sense.

How many people do you know that have no or little common sense?

If you are like me, there are many...

TO ME...  THIS IS THE FOUDATION OF RELATIVISM...    think about that...

How long will it last if we try to FORCE EVERYONE to accept EQUALITY and EQUITY which is exactly what the liberals, progressives, and blacks want us to do...

What I find really interesting is that blacks only represent 12% of the US population whereas whites represent 60% five times greater...

These different percentages are a perfect example of relativism...  all we have to do is look at the way we were raised and the stories that we share with our children...  and, even more important is the way whites and black worship...

I was raised in the South, NC specifically, and my upbringing and history lessons were different than those who were raised in the North...  this alone causes relativism...