Why did Scott Alexander Siskind *really* nuke Slate Star Codex? Does the New York Times care more about truth than the rationalist community? Are these rhetorical questions actually answered in my latest at Model Citizen?https://modelcitizen.substack.com/p/grey-lady-steel-man …
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"Black" does not mean "poor", but Black people are disproportionately poor, and have persistently been so since Black people were first brought to this country as chattel And to play dumb and act like this has nothing to do with why people care about race is barefaced lying
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Charles Murray strongly opposes programs like affirmative action and "welfare as we know it" because he thinks the underclass are where they are because of their objective lack of capacity and pushing them beyond their capacities is cruel
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Scientific racism and medical racism is real and completely alive in 2021. We need to teach others about it. We need to eradicate it
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Correct, but that doesn’t mean that all heritability problems are scientific racism. No one seriously disagrees that poverty is super heritable. Also no one disagrees that poverty is a problem that is tough to fix. Neither of those views are scientific racism views.
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The extent to which poverty is heritable - meaning the extent to which low income is explainable in terms of differences in genetics rather than non-genetic factors - debatable.
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Not that I agree with this, but it is in theory possible that intelligence could be heritable and between group differences in socioeconomic status are explainable to some extent in terms of heritable causes while it also being the case that (1/2)
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between group differences in IQ measures among different racial/ethnic groups are not explainable in terms of heritable factors. One of the issues race science aficionados often misunderstand is how heritability explaining one type of variation doesn't mean it explains another.
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