"if you ascribe any category to the Jews, that's a category Nazis will use to kill them with" well, yes
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Just thinking aloud Is there an anxiety that if any differences among groups are established as fact, we will certainly manipulate them? Because racism (and for that matter, essentialism, let's get it all out) is very very very old and scientific racism/Eugenics is quite new
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I get the impression that even among science folk there is great unease because they cannot square experimental results with the notion that no human being may be "inherently superior"? In Judaism they're called talents and gifts from G-d and groups can have them
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Replying to @kilovh
yes my Theory is that large parts of politic's in the US are a long-running effort to avoid ethnic conflict by brushing differences--especially intrinsic differences--under the rug such hypothetical differences were used to prop up many policies that were very bad indeed
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peace is at least hypothetically possible with intrinsic/heritable differences but that's not how the truce was hammered out by our forebears and acknowledging group differences breaks the treaty its already under great strain for related reasons but kick out the supports and--
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Replying to @eigenrobot @kilovh
i think the problem is that people conflate moral equality with genetic equality
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Replying to @eigenrobot @kilovh
it just seems incoherent if you think about it for more then a second; the fact that people are better at me at some task because of who they are has no bearing on moral worth.
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someone could be smarter/dumber/faster/slower then me and none of these have any bearing on how i should treat my fellow man
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I absolutely agree
But it's hard to sell in a mixed economy 
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liberalism being based on a lie increases the chances of barbarity because its proponents cannot grapple with a contradicting truth - therefor a very high social cost is imposed for asking if the emperor has no clothes
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...a cost coming at least slightly to the fore at the moment! yaaaaaaay
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