yeah when you put it like this, "do siskind's Black patients have a right to know that he thinks they are genetically inferior" seems like a pretty straightforward question to answer
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and
Does he believe they are genetically inferior? I've followed a few links people have presented as proof and I've yet to find anything of the sorts What I have found is the opposite
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Replying to @VierDrey @perdricof and
There are a couple things "the opposite" could mean: 1) Black people are genetically *superior* to white people 2) Eugenics is total bunk, and none of the important traits that people think of as "superior" or "inferior" can be mapped to genetic causes in any predictable way
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VierDrey and
I see no evidence Scott believes either one 2) is what I think, and Scott is very clearly, at best, skeptical to this point of view -- and the community he surrounds himself with is actively and viciously hostile to it ("blank slatism", etc.)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VierDrey and
He obviously does not believe "the opposite" -- my best guess is he believes a softened version of it ("Black people are like 1.5 standard deviations below white people on average in the g-factor and this tragically explains most racialized social dysfunction")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VierDrey and
He comes very very close to saying this multiple times but "taboos" actually directly bringing race into it -- but, in the end, so what
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VierDrey and
When he gave his big spiel about "I like eugenics and basic income guarantees" the example he used wasn't Black people but a stereotypical white Southern redneck, as someone whose poverty was due to heritable factors and intractable to policy changes So what? That's not better
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
What, eugenics is just "hereditary" So, believing that the colour of my eyes comes from my parents is eugenics now?
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Replying to @VierDrey @perdricof and
No, it becomes eugenics when you think heritable traits like the color of people's eyes are *important*, and that there should be policy to address the lack of desirable traits or excess of undesirable ones in the population
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
OK, now we are getting somewhere So, we'll throw out all the irrelevant stuff above and ... give me references to where he says so?
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Come on the "I like eugenics" cite has been posted dozens of times by nowhttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1276352549843435521?s=20 …
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