Frankly, he has my sympathies, and I say this speaking as one who is now officially and technically a fucking scientific racist
Unless you just stepped out of a time machine, I highly doubt that you are actually a scientific racist. You might be a race realist, but “scientific racism” specifically refers to the views one usually finds e.g. in 19th century and early 20th century sources, that were clearly plagued by massive ingroup/outgroup biases. Just because it had “scientific” in the name does not mean it was actually science-based in any real sense, any more than Karl Marx’s socialism was.
“Race realism” is what proponents of the view call it. Opponents don’t call it that, for obvious reasons. Many of them do actually refer to the view as “scientific racism”.
So it’s like rationalism in the Carthesian sense as opposed to the Yudkowskian? That’s a relief. Now how do I stop people from confusing me with those balls back a measuring phrenologists?
Unless you just stepped out of a time machine, I highly doubt that you are actually a scientific racist. You might be a race realist, but “scientific racism” specifically refers to the views one usually finds e.g. in 19th century and early 20th century sources, that were clearly plagued by massive ingroup/outgroup biases. Just because it had “scientific” in the name does not mean it was actually science-based in any real sense, any more than Karl Marx’s socialism was.
“Race realism” is what proponents of the view call it. Opponents don’t call it that, for obvious reasons. Many of them do actually refer to the view as “scientific racism”.
So it’s like rationalism in the Carthesian sense as opposed to the Yudkowskian? That’s a relief. Now how do I stop people from confusing me with those balls back a measuring phrenologists?