That’s astonishingly antisemitic. How does it matter that they’re Jewish? Why report their religion & not their sex or sexual orientation?
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Replying to @NickWolfinger
There is nothing anti-Jewish in my tweet. You must be reading something I'm not reading.
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Replying to @KirkegaardEmil @NickWolfinger
It does certainly sound anti-Jewish in that context, as it (at least in my eyes) implies that the fact that it was written by a Jew will affect your judgment of the content.
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Replying to @dingding_peng @NickWolfinger
There's another interpretation too: White Nationalists often criticize Jews for their part in the (alleged) left-wing media bias. So pointing out that some guy is exactly in that group arguing what they say is relevant even if only to their media bias models.
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For instance, if we survey all the people writing 'media are not biased' type books. Will Jews be over-represented there compared to similar books? Seems to me that their models predict 'yes'. I don't know what the answer is, but would be informative no?
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Replying to @KirkegaardEmil @NickWolfinger
Yeah but causality is a tough question here, so I'm not sure how one would get to a meaningful interpretation. Lots of factors determining political view points, careers in media...
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Not sure what causal effects white nationalists assume, as I don't have any among my friends. But a Jewish media conspiracy sounds a bit like a causal claim based on a correlation that might be confounded...
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Replying to @dingding_peng @NickWolfinger
I agree. My personal hypothesis for Jews in media is due to their verbal ability tilt + high general intelligence. This means they should end up in high V type jobs disproportionately: media, doctors, lawyers, social science. Can be tested with e.g. major-level SAT/GRE data.
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Replying to @KirkegaardEmil @NickWolfinger
Out of curiosity, would that be an acceptable white nationalist explanation? More Jewish people in such jobs because they're simply smarter?
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Replying to @dingding_peng @NickWolfinger
Presumably an explanation based on ethnic nepotism, or seeking world world domination. I haven't yet read the books by MacDonald. Maybe SSC should do one of those "in a nutshell" posts on them if he dares. :p https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture_of_Critique_series …
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In the spirit of the original tweet, it would of course be interesting to read a rebuttal book too. Only I can't stand moralistic tracts and most criticism of WN thought is very moralistic in tone. So maybe it will be hard to find (?).
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I found this review/summary, endorsed by MacDonald himself. Basically, seems like he did some not too rigorous analyses to make broad claims about mean trait differences. http://www.heretical.com/miscellx/culturec.html …
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