The problem with the IQ discourse / recent-uptick-in-mainstream-discussion-of-HBD: People don't understand statistics intuitively. And I mean that in a very specific way: People *will* extrapolate from aggregate population differences to prejudice against individuals.
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that it is undeniable that some states are big and powerful and others are small and weak, but they have the same moral worth
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and so every state's internal affairs are sacrosanct having nothing to do with their material capability to defend them
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This gave me a fricking light bulb moment. Quite stunning that I myself never connected these dots. THANK YOU!
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Alice is good at that reading this essay https://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/ … was part of my awakening re: how counterproductive social justice culture warring is
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regarding that investigation concerning the shift of equality, the vulgar centrists lile peterson et al settled on "postmodernist critical theory. seems very us-centric and is very ignorant if decade old german/french debates. i suggest you start here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positivism_dispute …
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