Social norms of politeness vary. By the usual ’net norms the discussion on LW (including Eugine) is very polite.
Pointing out that black people don’t get Nobels in hard sciences because the right tail of their IQ distribution doesn’t reach that far is highly politically incorrect and might well be rude in the sense of making participants in the conversation uncomfortable, but that’s precisely the valuable sense of which West Hunter speaks.
there is a rudeness beyond mentioning facts
Social norms of politeness vary. By the usual ’net norms the discussion on LW (including Eugine) is very polite.
Pointing out that black people don’t get Nobels in hard sciences because the right tail of their IQ distribution doesn’t reach that far is highly politically incorrect and might well be rude in the sense of making participants in the conversation uncomfortable, but that’s precisely the valuable sense of which West Hunter speaks.
I thought we don’t follow the usual net norms here.