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If you believe knowledge of this world can be gained from evidence, and that when evidence shows something, that should be believed over ideology or dogma, what
by jeofken 6y ago
If you believe knowledge of this world can be gained from evidence, and that when evidence shows something, that should be believed over ideology or dogma, what should you then believe about race and intelligence, and about equality?
Intelligence appears to be mostly genetic (see the Wikipedia page “heritability of IQ”). There are many maps online showing average IQ in different countries, which hints at races having different intelligence.
This hints at ideas of equality of outcome between people of different ethnicity being a thing this world will not see.
In nature, I don’t believe there are any examples of equality between entities, except on the level of physics or maybe chemistry. No two entities are equal.
This would imply that to get equality, the only way is to push down the groups that most often reach top achievements - to design a society that is anti-white, anti-Asian, and anti-male. I once met a girl with a poignant tattoo: “free men are not equal - equal men are not free”.
I look forward to the intelligent HN community enlightening me on this subject
- ttt0 6y agoThe oppression and equality narrative seems to be like the Christian Gospel - the absolute truth. Everything that contradicts it, even science, must be false. The article below, while technically not wrong, go as far as to undermine the most robust abstraction we've ever came up with, math itself, to deny the IQ. https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a33547137/why-some-people-think-2-plus-2-equals-5/ https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a33547137/why-...