Most people think they have selected their beliefs by some rational process of sorting evidence and arguments.
This is a false view of how the vast majority of human beliefs are truly acquired. You have about as much to do with deciding what you believe as you do with deciding to “accept God’s salvation” of your soul, namely nothing.
The idea that you chose your beliefs, although widely held, is naive.
What actually happens is that 99% of people encounter a topic or have an experience—for example seeing a handgun in someone’s home or more often, hearing a discussion about gun ownership—they have some kind of emotional response related to the universal desire to fit in socially with what they perceive to be the dominant group most likely to reward them with social energy and clout—and then, some time later (often years later) they tell themselves that they made their choice of how to view the topic—their settled belief—based on comparing the various arguments they had heard.
One good way to see the real sequence of this belief formation is to consider how rarely anyone (including you, dear reader) actually changes their mind about any topic of substance.
Basically nobody does this. If they do, it certainly is not because they finally “heard” superior arguments. It’s more likely they had never given the issue much thought, perhaps granted shallow assent to what they perceived to be the consensus, but then ran across someone who had a passion about it—and even there, they were probably more moved by the other man’s energy, or a desire to bond with him in their ‘conversion’ than by any purely intellectual grasp of the arguments he made.
The exception would be when someone undergoes a radical religious conversion and gets baptized by the Holy Spirit to repent and believe the gospel. But of course that is also not a result of arguments or evidence—it is something God does to you and for you, even if He does sovereignly use conversations with other people or books to convince you of the truth of His Person and power.
You might assume that the question of the sequence of steps toward belief—evidence producing conclusion, or conclusion (instinct) seeking evidence—is trivial. And as a matter of fact, I think there are more benefits flowing from wrongly derived beliefs which are true anyway, than there are from living by lies.
But that assumption is quite wrong and in fact dangerous. Living by lies is always dangerous for the man who does so, and it is catastrophic for the society built on lies.
In this scheme, there are three meaningful places a person can wind up in terms of how they acquired their beliefs or religious convictions, which I will briefly index in the next paragraph. Each one is a complete religious worldview, although by definition they vary enormously in how rigorously grounded they are in systematic thought.
Only one form of belief can lead an individual ultimately to the Truth, not only about particular historical or political questions, but most urgently about Who God is. Another form of belief (the second-most-salient form) can produce certain social advantages, but will ultimately fail a man because of the dishonest way it was acquired. And the other two forms of belief are logically distinct, but practically identical because they both involve living by lies.
Here are the four forms of belief, ranked here from worst (most perilous to the soul and society) to best (most advantageous to the soul and society).
Living by lies that you have never bothered to examine because they are so popular. Call these people the “Go with the flow” or “Go along to get along” or “Two Pointing Soyjaks” crowd. Although even the briefest consideration of the lack of evidence for these widely-held lies would explode them in a moment, your “Go with the flow” man never even considers such an examination because it is against his religion, which is one of blind trust in such Sources of Truth as the media, his school teachers and experts in the government and universities. This religion includes such baseless hoax doctrines as: generalized differences in social outcomes among racial groups only ever arise from racism, sex group differences only ever arise from sexism, and persistent social attitudes or beliefs about people groups can only ever be socially constructed myths.
Living by lies that you have embraced with more sincerity than the “Go with the flow” group gins up for itself. This group might be slightly less obnoxious than the the “Two Pointing Soyjaks” group because they are sometimes more intellectual than their lazy fellow liars, but not much less obnoxious, and not that much more intellectual. These people are rare edge-cases, and honestly might not even existence. They are almost always rapidly on their way to joining one of the other groups: abandoning their futile efforts to prove that their beliefs are real (futile because they are fake) and becoming Soyjaks; or improving their heuristics enough to embrace a set of beliefs that are true, or truer to life and reality than those they used to believe when they were younger and more delusional. This group is, again, socially indistinguishable from a Soyjak to any but a highly-attuned mind to the sociology and psychology of how a questing soul interacts with the truth.
Living by truth(s) because you admire the character, the lifestyle or the social and financial outcomes of the people described in group 4. These are the hypocrites, who have not been truly convinced of the quite rational arguments for believing the truth, but who simply wish to enjoy the external benefits of living in a society where people believe (or pay lip service to) the truth. Pragmatically speaking, this kind of religion is a huge improvement on Living by Lies in groups 1 or 2, but it still falls very short of the glory of God.
Living by truth because you see that it is the path to eternal life and the only safe and wise foundation for the life of an individual or a society. This, in effect, is genuine Christianity, where a man comes to see that he is God’s and that God is his. He rejoices in the truth for its own sake while clearly recognizing that such a belief redounds also to his worldly benefit (even if such benefits are often invisible even to himself, let alone a hostile world of Soyjaks). We must worship God in spirit and in truth, which I am here applying to the idea of not only assenting to what is known to be true for the way such doctrines harmonize society (which is nothing to sneeze at), but also to the inner convincement of its truth and ability to save the soul (James 1:21).
Everyone Who Believes That Racism (Blind Hatred for the Color of the Skin) Is a Real Phenomenon Is Simply Caught Up in Believing Baseless Lies

Racism is a fake problem that has no solution.
If you believe in “racism” you have at least one gigantic area of your thinking that is making you look like a Soyjak.
People who tell you that the explanation for crime or stereotypes is “racism” are either stupid or lying to you on purpose to harm you.
The reason there can be no solution to “racism” is that there is no actual problem to solve.
Where is the problem?
Where is the evidence for a wicked conspiracy against people, groups or even individuals whose life outcomes have been determined for them viciously and destructively by one or more acts of random and pernicious hatred for the color of the individual (or group’s) skin?
It’s a goofy lie, sometimes called a “spook” in certain philosophical circles, an intuition pump with no bearing on reality and existing entirely in the minds of the deluded.
The current rulers of the West have many different spooks, or hoaxes, or forms of hollow received wisdom, which they use in order to frighten powerless citizens into steadier compliance with their scams.
No spook—including racism—is ever imposed on society without its accompanying prefab solution—in this case antiracism.
For example, we are told that disparate black outcomes in society—with careers, families, crime, IQ—are always, only ever the result either of epigenetic fear—evidently the descendants of slaves continue to suffer metaphysically from the trauma of their ancestors—or lingering hatred among the descendants of those who enslaved their ancestors—itself an outlandish device of epigenetic guilt—or of some mysterious combination thereof—all while simultaneously assuring us that “race is itself a social construct”—but that the consequences of such power structures are “heritable”: hence the cockamamie thesis a few years ago of the anti-white screed “White Fragility” by Robin DiAngelo.*
The true purpose of such spooks, always lurking in pretty much plain sight, is certainly not to help minorities (or whichever group of theoretical victims is being dragged into the service of political theatre) but rather to seize power and money and sex from the unwitting (and often demented) True Believers in the Spook of the Day.
There is no evidence that anyone randomly, arbitrarily or irrationally hates anyone, let alone does so toward an entire group. This is tranny-level gaslighting. Doesn’t exist!
Having blind hatred for every member of some abstract group is no more possible than to bestow universal and indiscriminate love on an unknown individual, group or All of Humanity. You are being gaslit if you lose sleep about a racist conspiracy to kill all the black people—or all the whatever-colored people.
Not only are such fears fakely manufactured by the media, even if such groups were operating (they aren’t), it would be impossible to ever address such a crisis!
Do you understand that the sudden explosion of interest in Identity Politics in 2011 was not some coincidence? It was manufactured largely by the media (and banks of course) as a distraction to convince Marxists to care less about wealth inequality—which by the way is a legitimate Christian concern, even if misunderstood and twisted by Marxists—and more about…falls asleep…RACIAL INEQUALITY!!!
Latching onto big random feelings of hatred for groups is not really how human emotions or beliefs work. People tend to believe things which they have been told by people to whom they are naturally connected.
And to whom are all people naturally most connected? The answer is: their immediate family.
It widens (and weakens) concentrically from there: your parents and sibling bonds are strongest; then your grandparents and cousins and uncles; then broader extended family; then (dare we say it?) your nation (nation means birth, it’s a genetic concept running throughout Scripture, all the way to the Book of RevelatioN; then it gets a little fuzzy.
It gets especially fuzzy in our (hate to say it, have to say it) unprecedented environment of mass media saturation. Because the biggest immediate consequence of life with the media is the melting of local culture and trust among family, including household family.
Quickly ensuing, you see that individuals care far more about relating to their same-age cohort peers than to their parents—the group most responsible for rearing them and feeding them and the people most intuitively trusted by every previous generation of humanity for the benefit of the whole society.
These mass media spooks can be (and are) deployed to foment social division which has exactly ZERO UNDERLYING SOCIOBIOLOGICAL BASIS. It is not in anyone’s interest for wealth or safety or mental health to “hate” their parents, or “hate” their coethnics (whites are trained to feel such hatred for themselves and their cohort), or even to “hate” racial others. The only person or group who might benefit from such a scheme of manufactured hoaxes—the carefully devised illusion that people everywhere are very close to unleashing a racial obliteration upon some other racial group—is the person or group who
owns mass media
stands to gain from social unrest, low social trust, an environment of ginned up racial animosity
curiously refuses to implement similar antiracist/”Woke” laws, norms, open borders or indifference to genetic origins in his or its own groups and geographical nations.
Does such a group exist?
I will tell you one thing: if it does, that group is not “the whites.” Because the whites fail above on criterion one, they fail on criterion two, and they fail miserably on criterion three.
I wonder if there might be some nation or people group somewhere who check the boxes on that list? Google it if you are interested.
But generally speaking, as far as I can recall:
There are no people anywhere who are saying “We have to eradicate this (or this list of) racial group(s).” It’s a bogeyman.
It’s a hoax!!!!
It’s an absolute lie!!!
It is the most spurious kind of guilt tripping imaginable.
See also: global warming (fake and gay), Covid (fake and gay), “you killed my grandma by refusing to mask up” (fake and gay), “most men have usually hated and lorded themselves over women” (possibly more offensive and destructive than the racism hoax) and of course, “there is never any reason at all to criticize Jews as individuals, as a group, as a religion or as a nation; mild criticism of Jews is always random, irrational, and motivated by nothing at all other than reckless genocidal hatred for the shape of the yarmulke!!!!”
*She was shown to have plagiarized it, but no matter who wrote it, it was fake and gay.