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This is one guy making assertions and then using his own assertions as evidence of his assertions. It’s a junk one sided accusation. I don’t know what the full
by erentz 6y ago
This is one guy making assertions and then using his own assertions as evidence of his assertions. It’s a junk one sided accusation.
I don’t know what the full context of their conversation was because it isn’t included. But I find it really offensive when people pretend that intelligence and athletic ability amongst a whole host of other things do not exist along a spectrum and are not genetically influenced. Their implication is that it’s a moral failing. Someone with say an IQ of 80 is going to have an extremely hard life through no fault other than genetics and the harsh environment that we as a society give them.
- ivraatiems 6y ago> But I find it really offensive when people pretend that intelligence and athletic ability amongst a whole host of other things do not exist along a spectrum and are not genetically influenced. That's not what people who talk about "HBD" being bad are doing. My comment in response to andrewflnr has more, but the criticism is not that intelligence or athletic ability aren't genetically based at all, it's "HBD"/eugenics focus on genetic heritability to the exclusion of everything else, ignores evidence to the contrary, and does so for the explicit purpose of harming people of other races. They also ignore evidence that while it is variable, that variability is not racially determined, e. g. is not correlated to the genetic differences that create phenotypes we categorize as "races".
- lyssa17 6y agoYep. Recent debunking (once again) of their canon by Kevin Bird in an article titled "No support for the hereditarian hypothesis of the Black–White achievement gap using polygenic scores and tests for divergent selection" https://twitter.com/itsbirdemic/status/1356710918026067973 https://twitter.com/itsbirdemic/status/1356710918026067973