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I agree and think that is the main point here. Within our social norms, any type of generalized genetic comparison between groups of humans is very much frowned
by air7 9y ago
I agree and think that is the main point here.
Within our social norms, any type of generalized genetic comparison between groups of humans is very much frowned upon. I think that's because it bring back past traumas such as Slavery, the Jewish Holocaust and female oppression.
This is so strong that almost any grouping statement is quickly labeled as racism, sexism, profiling etc.
Imagine the popular reaction if it's discovered that these "intelligence genes" not only exist but are more prevalent in one of our go-to easily labeled human subgroups such as women, men, whites, blacks, rich, poor, brown-eyed. It'll be proof that that group is objectively genetically more intelligent. What would be the ramifications such a discovery? What should be the ramifications of such a discovery?
I think it's quite tricky to research these things objectively without it being explosive. That's why even suggesting that "the genetic influence on intelligence is likely non-zero" is a big thing.
- cLeEOGPw 9y agoThis time will go in history as "the dark ages of human genetics" because of this reason. Some groups of humans are smarter than other groups of humans, some are more athletic, there are many physical and behavioral differences caused by genes in different easily identifiable groups of people. I know it, you know it, everyone knows it, but because of the toxic political environment, everyone must pretend these differences either don't exist, or they exist because of some magical politically correct reason like socioeconomic status. Even ignoring that the status itself has genetic influence and thus members of one easily identifiable group of people are predisposed to higher/lower status than other. We are doing nothing but fooling ourselves by pretending we are all equal.