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Sure, me too. But we're back to talking about policies and actions, like invading Poland or enforcing caste apartheid. These are bad things. My objection is to
by iguy 9y ago
Sure, me too. But we're back to talking about policies and actions, like invading Poland or enforcing caste apartheid. These are bad things.
My objection is to conflating them with scientific matters, i.e. empirical claims, especially about human biology. I worry that doing so actually weakens our arguments against such evil. We shouldn't build into our case against them scientific claims on which we may ourselves be proven wrong. It's not necessary.
(And, much as I enjoy using words like diversity in their older meanings, in the hope of tripping people into thinking, here I resisted the temptation. Intellectual monoculture was however a feature of most of the evil regimes of recent times, too, and one of their weaknesses.)
- emodendroket 9y agoI don't see much point in making the distinction. All of these policies you're saying are bad are completely logical ones to enact for someone who holds race-supremacist views. By way of analogy, when someone tells you he believes global warming is impossible because it would go against the Bible, you don't have to wonder that much what he would do about carbon emissions.