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Interesting. On the Right, we see the same thing with your side. Total blind faith in blank slate theories of human equality, and uninterested in the piles of
by thraway2016 10y ago
Interesting.
On the Right, we see the same thing with your side. Total blind faith in blank slate theories of human equality, and uninterested in the piles of twin studies and metastudies that clearly demonstrate innate differences between demographic groups, even actively conspiratorial. It's hard to talk to a Hillary voter when it veers into "Conservatives are all anti-science but the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study and the vast consensus of geneticists on MAOA-L gene expression is a racist conspiracy by white men."
- iak8god 10y agoWhy is it so important to you people to believe you were born better than someone else? This is a serious question, not just snark.
- jdpedrie 10y ago"When did you stop beating your wife?"
- thraway2016 10y agoIt has nothing to do with "better". It has to do with policy. Predicating policy (e.g. education, criminal justice, employment) on fundamentally wrong and unscientific assumptions about people's capabilities inevitably leads to gross inefficiencies, and mental and social health problems.
- iak8god 10y agoLet's suppose there is an indisputable 10 point IQ gap between the mean Green person and the mean Purple person that couldn't possibly be explained by confounding factors like, oh, say the legacy of Purple people, who are the dominant group in the society in question, treating Green ones as subhuman for centuries. So what? Why don't we focus on getting to a situation where all the people have the same opportunities (access to education, nutrition, equal treatment under the law, etc, etc, etc) and THEN we can worry about precision policymaking based on the differences.
- tmuir 10y agoI thought vast consensus by scientists was proof of conspiracy, like in the case of climate change.
- ebfd 10y agoHis argument seems to be that, like many Republicans do with climate change, many Democrats dismiss problematic science out of hand as a "conspiracy". I don't see how doing exactly that serves as a rebuttal. Your post comes across as sheer aggression, communicating the same concept as "fuck you".
- ionised 10y agoYou might start by not conflating The Left™ (which I assume you mean by 'your side') with Hillary supporters. I'm probably considered a wishy-washy, bleeding-heart, virtue-signalling, liberal cuck (or whatever the hell the current deliberately antognistic buzzwords are) but I actively disliked Clinton and to a slightly lesser extent Obama. People need to stop painting eachother with broad brushes. It's naive sports-team tribalism that gets us nowhere other than a highly polarised and aggressively charged shitshow.