Haidt's also pretty important because he's a racist in a very old, very influential way that is often erased in popular discourse.
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Racism, we're told by To Kill a Mockingbird (and much else) is function of ignorance, economic anxiety, inchoate animosity.
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But Haidt's bigotry is soft-spoken, respectable, more in sorrow than in anger.
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He doesn't *want* to hate anyone. The science (the science!) says what it says. He is merely the limpid truth teller.
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Science says humans prob experienced group evolution. Therefore black ppl advocating for their rights will destroy us (us!) all.
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don't see the logic there? You're a science denier, blinded by ideology.
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Chaidt's the heir of phrenologists and eugenicists; the serious, dispassionate researchers who performed the Tuskegee experiments.
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helpful typo though because until just then i had forgotten that Chait and Haidt were different people
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