Nope It is very male-dominated, but there's a fair chunk of women - including some very high-profile female commenters, like Aella But I've ever seen a SINGLE commenter, ever, who was Black
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And the number of non-white commenters I can like count on two hands - all of whom were Asian
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This is because one of the primary topics of discussion was consistently "race and IQ" and the belief that white and Asian people are genetically more intelligent than everyone else, especially Black people, and this explains America's social dysfunction
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I love the fact that you are so confident why there were not more black commentators. Great that we have someone for whom sociology of racials groups is easy.
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Well, it is a fact that Scott's reader survey said Black readers were literally less than 1% of the population (I don't remember the exact number but shockingly vanishingly small) AND that a whole lot of the white commenters frequently liked to bring up race and IQ
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Replying to @arthur_affect @pllbtopgear
0.6% according to the latest survey I found on his blog. Maybe something like 6-7% would be expected based on demography of countries of readership. The difference is interesting but does not strike me as shocking, nor any reason to supposed deterred by racism.
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Well yeah of course you wouldn't think so, you're one of his dumb fuckface fans
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Scott literally wrote this infuriatingly long "analysis" about how every fucking "community" he's into - the "tech community", the "effective altruism community", the "poly community" - is almost 100% white but this somehow has nothing to do with racism and isn't a problem
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Based on, of course, purely rational analysis of statistics and shit with no motivated reasoning whatsoever Despite what a naive untrained lay person might consider the parsimonious explanation
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Replying to @arthur_affect @pllbtopgear
A naive untrained lay person would not jump to racism as the explanation of every disparity, or at least a non-left wing lay person would not. That racism, and other isms, are the root cause of everything is an ideological belief that is not universally popular.
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Right, I'm sure a normal person would just assume Black people don't want to join your group because you're smart and they're dumb
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Replying to @arthur_affect @pllbtopgear
Who said that? Not me, at least. Is the reason that Christianity has many more black adherents than Buddhism that Buddhism is evil and racist? (Or more evil and racist than Xtianity.) No, and it is also not that black people are biologically less likely to join Buddhism.
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