That’s not a term Scott banned. If it’s a synonym than nobody should have any problem with Scott’s ban because they can simply exchange on term with another without losing the ability to communicate anything.
If one denies the heritability of IQ, one is obligated to provide another explanation for the differences in educational attainment, income, crime, etc. between races. Thus, one minds oneself seeking out ever subtler forms of “racism” to explain the difference. It’s slightly more complicated than this in that signaling spirals also get involved.
If one denies the heritability of IQ, one is obligated to provide another explanation for the differences in educational attainment, income, crime, etc. between races.
You got that the wrong way around. A person who sees the social conflict as the oppressor vs. the oppressed doesn’t need any motivation to “explain the differences in educational attainment etc” to motivate himself.
Trying to understand demographic statistics is important for us nerds but it’s not what drives the main social conflict.
You got that the wrong way around. A person who sees the social conflict as the oppressor vs. the oppressed doesn’t need any motivation to “explain the differences in educational attainment etc” to motivate himself.
Once someone is already a volk-Marxist fanatic that is true. However, to convince others to give them power, not to mention to recruit more fanatics they need a semi-plausible argument for their position.
Trying to understand demographic statistics is important for us nerds but it’s not what drives the main social conflict.
Whether someone is interested in demographic statistics or not, demographic statistics are real and hence have real effects. The need to deal with those effects drives a lot of the social conflicts.
That’s not a term Scott banned. If it’s a synonym than nobody should have any problem with Scott’s ban because they can simply exchange on term with another without losing the ability to communicate anything.
If I take a look at a story like http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/20/oberlin-students-cafeteria-food-is-racist.html?via=desktop&source=twitter , I also think it’s heavily misleading to say that it’s about the heritability of IQ.
If one denies the heritability of IQ, one is obligated to provide another explanation for the differences in educational attainment, income, crime, etc. between races. Thus, one minds oneself seeking out ever subtler forms of “racism” to explain the difference. It’s slightly more complicated than this in that signaling spirals also get involved.
You got that the wrong way around. A person who sees the social conflict as the oppressor vs. the oppressed doesn’t need any motivation to “explain the differences in educational attainment etc” to motivate himself.
Trying to understand demographic statistics is important for us nerds but it’s not what drives the main social conflict.
Once someone is already a volk-Marxist fanatic that is true. However, to convince others to give them power, not to mention to recruit more fanatics they need a semi-plausible argument for their position.
Whether someone is interested in demographic statistics or not, demographic statistics are real and hence have real effects. The need to deal with those effects drives a lot of the social conflicts.