Might not be what you’d guess: https://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2015/03/07/my-politics/ … As an immigrant and son of a war refugee, I don’t agree with her on that!
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"Aw shucks, just because I think Black people are genetically inferior, people make all these assumptions about my politics!"
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Well… she says she doesn’t think that. But maybe more interestingly, I don’t think racism should be a sacred taboo, because >
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> tabooing racism means many people have no idea why it is wrong; they just know it is taboo. That’s counterproductive, because >
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> when they encounter it, they can’t take effective action against it, just denounce it (which isn’t always effective).
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I wrote about this in a Buddhist context at https://vividness.live/2015/10/16/better-buddhisms-a-developmental-approach/ …pic.twitter.com/EvOxfk39zw
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HBD Chick argues that Black poverty is because Black people are wired for "different talents". Ugly for obvious reasons.
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Team HBD claims they are just breaking the taboo of asking these questions and following the evidence where it leads. Bunk.
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Well, I think racial discrimination is obviously wrong. hbdchick says she thinks that too. Regarding evidence, I have no idea >
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Her main obsession is purported average genetic differences between white Europeans;
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I find that vaguely interesting as natural history, and her anecdata are striking. However, it’s not science.
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It is not science, and it claims to be, and the confirmation biases it reveals are ugly in the extreme.
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