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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Replying to @willwilkinson
You also claim it isn’t a hit piece, but what the heck is going on with the Charles Murray insinuations. Agreeing with him on a side issue doesn’t make one a racist, so the insinuation is grossly dishonest. The willingness to do that has to color our read of the rest of the piece
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Replying to @Sebastian_Hols @willwilkinson
The heritability and therefore intractability of poverty is not a "side issue" to scientific racism, it IS the issue
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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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He therefore holds the view that Scott thinks of as deeply compassionate ("Just give them money and stop hoping they'll be able to do important jobs") You don't have to specify Black poor people for this to be a noxious attitude about poor people
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But obviously it's NOT just that, like Murray is outspokenly against affirmative action for middle-class Black people because he doesn't think underrepresentation in elite institutions is due to bias but due to Black people just not being as smart as their white colleagues
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Replying to @arthur_affect @willwilkinson
Sure but just because Murray has a view doesn’t make that attributable to Scott based on them agreeing about UBI.
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