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by gotostatement 5y ago
I don't understand your argument. if you look at two bell curves for IQ and they look almost identical except for a slightly different mean, you're really going to go "okay that group is obviously smarter"? height is a d
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by gotostatement 5y ago
bad analogy. the height variance (not absolute bounds) in each sex is probably smaller than the difference in mean height. whereas this is not true of other metrics like intelligence
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by gotostatement 5y ago
If every group is a bell curve, then the curves have similar variance and similar mean as well, and the variance within each group is larger than the difference between the means, and the differences are not big enough to say in a meaningfu
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by gotostatement 5y ago
*murdered in cold blood by police
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by gotostatement 5y ago
I understand what you're saying, but I'm just telling you it's a scientific fact that race is a social construct in the sense that on all the relevant metrics that are usually talked about, like intelligence, ability, etc, th
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by gotostatement 5y ago
blue lives matter is essentially a racist slogan given the context that its responding to "black lives matter" which is about, among other things, black people being murdered by police
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by gotostatement 5y ago
Race is a socially constructed category. The idea that someone is a different "race" just because they look different is not supported by biology. In all metrics there is more variation within a group than between groups. So the &
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by gotostatement 6y ago
Is there reason to believe the brain is chaotic on that level? The reason I doubt it because any stable biological system has as one of its primary tasks - if not its #1 primary task - to maintain equilibrium. Otherwise it would collapse in
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by gotostatement 6y ago
seems too low-level, no? the temporary excitation of a single neuron would most likely just fade away into the equilibrating process of the brain
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by gotostatement 6y ago
I am truley sorry for your lots
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by gotostatement 6y ago
it also fails if it's corrupted or constrained by outside social forces
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by gotostatement 6y ago
nice deflection. have a good day
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by gotostatement 6y ago
there's a difference: automatically negating ideas due to the proponent would be a fallacy. refusing to take a proponent as a reputable source when they espouse other ridiculous and dangerous things is just common sense
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by gotostatement 6y ago
There are plenty of reputable sources for radical ideas that don't spew antisemitism, antifeminism, racism, and homophobia. I find it impossible to take this seriously as a source for anything at all, it has lost all credibility for m
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by gotostatement 6y ago
Though at first the article seemed interesting and compelling, towards the end of the article, it started to unravel (see the comments about Black women at the very bottom of the page). So I clicked through the site, and realized that it li
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by gotostatement 6y ago
Yeah I mean, it's not exactly a huge leap of logic based on reading the post. If it's a misunderstanding, that's just one of the perils of written communication, and this gives the author a chance to reply. The societal role
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by gotostatement 6y ago
not worth getting into the nitty gritty but I'll just say that I mean sexual harassment is dramatically more serious than not paying rent
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by gotostatement 6y ago
Not to derail the conversation but I find it amusing to put sexual harassment in the same sentence as not paying rent
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by gotostatement 6y ago
interesting line of thinking. just to write it all out for clarity (not because I think you misunderstood): the might makes right that I was pointing at is an attitude of "winning is everything. winners are superior, no matter how arbi
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by gotostatement 6y ago
okay... so why is that inherently praiseworthy?
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by gotostatement 6y ago
winning isn't on its own admirable, nor is complaining/criticizing on its own shameful. that's just the toxic ideology of "might makes right" that permeates our society
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by gotostatement 6y ago
Why doesnt the empty string satisfy `(DI|NS|TH|OM)*`?
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by gotostatement 6y ago
> The move from "isms" as a character flaw to "isms" as a structural flaw makes this kind of analysis possible. I actually think isms as a structural flaw rather than a character flaw is much more pertinent in many ca
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by gotostatement 6y ago
Right, that's why criticizing the companies who shamelessly pushed opioids is actually wrong too, because it's punching down at the people who enjoy using the opioids who often tend to be low-income and yes, women. Woops, you punc
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by gotostatement 6y ago
"woops, you punched down!"
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by gotostatement 6y ago
Nowhere in my comment does it say or imply "any criticisms are smears." All I said is that people do use bad faith smears.
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by gotostatement 6y ago
> it sounded like a teenager on a rant It is quite typical to dismiss anti-capitalist critique as being youthful and immature
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by gotostatement 6y ago
I was wondering about that. yes, by "this" I meant the tweet, not the person Im replying to
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by gotostatement 6y ago
I used the word "smear." That means that people attempt to make attacks that are specious and appear to be in bad faith in order to tarnish their reputation. That this happens is true regardless of whether there is other legitimat
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by gotostatement 6y ago
oppression is real and social justice advocation is so important. that's why it's that much more infuriating when I see people like this who only are interested in social justice when it serves their own personal interests and&#x2

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