Feel like @eigenrobot used to tweet about this
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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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Replying to @eigenrobot @kilovh
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
enough people are invested in the status quo, too, that a renegotiation on empirical grounds would be very difficult; especially as the treaty has moved past diplomacy to theology
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Liberal post-war status quo. Thanks. Makes sense to me
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Replying to @kilovh
yeah just spitballing but feels like a good first pass to me
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I think I arrived, from a different direction, at a similar conclusion myself, here https://notajungle.com/index.php/2018/06/21/how-the-holocaust-became-a-political-plaything/ …
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Replying to @kilovh
oh hmmm this is good mind if I RT/comment? (no pressure)
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Replying to @kilovh @eigenrobot
This is also similar to the Moldbug racist vs IQist debate.
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yeah I think about that a lot
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Replying to @kilovh @eigenrobot
Basically the argument is this: Differential IQ among races is claimed to be racist because people implicitly believe that IQ is a reasonable proxy for human worth, and but since that conflicts with universalism, the fiction is encouraged that all races have the same IQ distrib
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