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If white supremacists can believe contradictory ideas and still be white supremacists, then how are we to determine who is and isn't? By this logic there's no e
by pingpongchef 6y ago
If white supremacists can believe contradictory ideas and still be white supremacists, then how are we to determine who is and isn't? By this logic there's no evidence you could give me to prove you're not a white supremacist since contradictions. I don't mean that as a personal attack, but I hope you see how untenable such a line of thinking is.
Also, I do understand the possibility that someone could claim to believe one thing and not actually believe it. It simply requires a higher burden of proof.
- opnitro 6y agoIf you're asking how people can hold contradictory ideas... then I'd invite you do some self reflection. You probably hold some. We all do. Striving towards clarity of thought takes a while. As for white supremacists in specific, let's take David Duke and Richard Spencer for example. (As you agreed above they were white supremacists) Both of these people claim to believe in science and reason, yet also believe in the superiority of the white race.
- memimo 6y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve
- opnitro 6y agoA book riddled with methodological errors, and not even peer reviewed, does not a good post make
- snowwrestler 6y agoIf you (or any reader) are interested in substantive critiques of this book, here are two: https://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block/papers/Heritability.html https://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block/papers/Her... https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/5/18/15655638/charles-murray-race-iq-sam-harris-science-free-speech https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/5/18/15655638/charles-...
- AgentME 6y agoHere's an unusually good video critiquing it too: https://youtu.be/UBc7qBS1Ujo https://youtu.be/UBc7qBS1Ujo