You embarrassingly tried to strawman it by using language like “this will guarantee her kids...”
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Replying to @humbug1994 @arthur_affect and
We're mixing several things together here: (1) picking a mate because you like them (2) wanting your kids to inherit some of the things you like about them (3) believing in objectively "good" traits (the "eu" in "eugenics") that you're deliberately "breeding for" in your kids
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Replying to @vjpsyverson @humbug1994 and
He’s not mixing any of those things
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Replying to @RafFaithfull @humbug1994 and
Your hypothetical: "If a woman wants to have babies with the smartest and most attractive man she can find..." I'm trying to extract the reason why. Some of the reasons seem to me like they'd conceivably be creepy; others, not. That's what I'm trying to unmix.
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Replying to @vjpsyverson @RafFaithfull and
"Eugenics" is a CONSCIOUS BELIEF SYSTEM It's not a general description of things that happen in the world, and by diluting it down like that you're engaging in Scott's favorite fallacy, the motte-and-bailey fallacy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @vjpsyverson and
Constantin Marcato Retweeted Justin Melillo
Nah man, your buddy told me that eugenics is the idea that intelligence is a singular quantifiable thing. https://twitter.com/cybren/status/1276006526877151233?s=21 …https://twitter.com/Cybren/status/1276006526877151233 …
Constantin Marcato added,
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Replying to @humbug1994 @arthur_affect and
For someone posturing as an intellectual you should probably be able to tell “A is an example of B” does not mean that “B is only A”
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Replying to @humbug1994 @arthur_affect and
Yes, “squares are literally rectangles” is a true statement
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Replying to @Cybren @humbug1994 and
The belief in the G-factor isn't identical to eugenics but in practice it follows very rapidly, it's part of the foundation that makes eugenics appealing to a certain class of people It's like how very few people who believe in chemtrails don't believe in the Illuminati
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"No, I think they are putting chemicals in the contrails but it's not any one group of people doing it, it's just the various airline companies making the ground crews do it randomly once in a while"
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