Steven Hale
Dec 5, 2020

Neutrality is a dodge that people who are not neutral use in order to conceal their own bias (a bias that they are fully aware of).

If you see a car speeding toward a crowd of protesters, how can you be neutral? If you say and do nothing, then you are on the side of the driver.

It's possible not to care about a particular controversy, but that's not being neutral; it's being biased toward the status quo.

Mary Lefkowitz may (or may not) be more objective (however you wish to define "objective") in her assessment of the role of Africa in the development of Western culture than are Martin Bernal and the Afro-centric scholars she disagrees with, but she is no more neutral than they are.

The midpoint on a line does not exist in 3-d space.

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