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> isn't he a eugenicist? I know everyone loves to "separate the artist from the art" or w/e but that one thing really does make me distrustful of every single o

• astrange 4y ago
  His commenters are the kind of people who have decided this: > that intelligence is heritable and some ethnic groups are smarter than others is true because if it was true, Berkeley feminists with humanities degrees wouldn't want to admit that, and they find those people annoying, therefore the option that makes you go "well we just have to face the facts" must be the case. Of course, the first part of the sentence doesn't imply half the things they think it does, certainly doesn't imply the second, and even then the implications "…and it must be genetic" "…and there's nothing we can do about it" "…and that's why we're more virtuous than those other people" would not necessarily be true. (Genetics, like social sciences, doesn't produce reliable results because it uses observation studies and hasn't heard of the credibility revolution thing yet. Intervention studies are either beyond our capabilities or would be unethical to do.)