I think the technology for such a weapon is sufficiently far in the future that there’s no direct harm in discussing the question, though I suppose there’s a reputational risk for LW. I don’t have a serious timeline for when such a weapon, even of the sketchiest sort, would be possible, but I’d be really surprised if took less than 20 years.
I’m imagining that the weapon would identify several genes related to appearance (since that is what people mostly seem to care about, though some racists also care about ancestry) and have a cumulative effect based on the number of target genes.
Any thoughts about what defense against such a weapon would look like?
Any thoughts about what defense against such a weapon would look like?
Culturally: Get the establishment to stop pretending there is no such thing as race and that there are no instrumental difference between ethnicities. Most modern “racism” seems to me to stem from the fact that the western establishment (academia/media/the political class) seem to be actively living in denial on HBD, and for some people it’s a natural step from swallowing the red pill to “they’re lying about everything, gas the X, race war now!”.
Stop the systematic denial of HBD and start treating people like grown-ups who are capable of living with “politically incorrect” knowledge in their lives, and most of the reasons to actively be “racist” as defined by the cultural-marxist outrage just go away.
I think the technology for such a weapon is sufficiently far in the future that there’s no direct harm in discussing the question, though I suppose there’s a reputational risk for LW. I don’t have a serious timeline for when such a weapon, even of the sketchiest sort, would be possible, but I’d be really surprised if took less than 20 years.
I’m imagining that the weapon would identify several genes related to appearance (since that is what people mostly seem to care about, though some racists also care about ancestry) and have a cumulative effect based on the number of target genes.
Any thoughts about what defense against such a weapon would look like?
Culturally: Get the establishment to stop pretending there is no such thing as race and that there are no instrumental difference between ethnicities. Most modern “racism” seems to me to stem from the fact that the western establishment (academia/media/the political class) seem to be actively living in denial on HBD, and for some people it’s a natural step from swallowing the red pill to “they’re lying about everything, gas the X, race war now!”.
Stop the systematic denial of HBD and start treating people like grown-ups who are capable of living with “politically incorrect” knowledge in their lives, and most of the reasons to actively be “racist” as defined by the cultural-marxist outrage just go away.