This is the core of what's wrong with this type of person. Why is discrimination bad? Why is that a "horrible belief"? The woke have an answer - "it hurts our pets and our pets are the most important thing" - what's your answer?" Because it's wrong because of ... reasons https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1297629997822357508 …
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
Because we want to discriminate on the basis of finer-grained traits rather than coarser demographics! (Select for visuospatial &c. skills for this-and-such job category and end up with an 83% male workforce, rather than codifying a norm of "men's" vs. "women's" work)
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
Modern wealth reveals/enables a taste for (what we might call) "individualism" that wasn't applicable in earlier eras. If the only jobs in your tribe are hunter/warrior and gatherer/mother, then gender roles are very important for survival. 1/2
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Replying to @zackmdavis @CovfefeAnon
Today, people use general intelligence to learn crazy contingent roles that didn't exist before. Soldiers need to be male, because that's tapping into stuff that males have already been optimized for in evolutionary time. But that's not going to be true for, e.g., accountants 2/2
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Replying to @zackmdavis
That describes the mechanism for the distribution of abilities - novel roles won't have skews in ability (happens to be false) but doesn't get at my question Assume some woman somewhere would be a fine accountant - why should I care if she gets passed over for an accounting job?
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
I'm still a liberal-but-with-a-better-world-model, so I'm not sure I understand your moral universe. If a man would make a fine accountant, but gets systematically passed over because his name has a 'K' in it, do you care about that? 1/3
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