I just don't see "discussion" happening in the US. Probably what happens is people continue to act in the private lives as if IQ were a useful predictor, and deny it publicly + through policy choices. Pure preference falsification. Maybe something with China or CRISPR-like tech
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what I think a red attack on the truce would look like: 1. aggressively attacking affirmative action + diversity social programs 2. aggressively attacking employment protections (even if in practice they're ineffective) 3. aggressively cutting social welfare (?) . . .
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4. actively pushing minority disenfranchisement (so, point here) 5. super-aggressive incarceration / brutal policing (same) [I'm sympathetic to arguments that low-income minority communities actually need *more* policing, and better; and that extant policing is badly done]
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W. I think was much more personally sensitive to issues of race but his partisanship and congress prevented him from doing anything good about. Can't let Katrina/New Orleans get a pass. Accidentally racist policy is still racist.
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>Accidentally racist policy is still racist hmmm disagree for purposes of this discussion would say Bush II possibly did more for black people than any President since LBJ just mostly in Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Emergency_Plan_for_AIDS_Relief …
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credit Laura for that. never has the term "better half" been more apt.
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