just listened to a podcast where glenn loury interviews james heckman (!!!) about racial economic outcome differences
specifically around iq vs (other things)
if you're a patron I'd recommend listening, else wait until it drops on @bloggingheads in a few days
got me thinking
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It's just an extremely large feedback loop, poor education and lack of fathers leads to more poor education and lack of fathers, also i forget who it was but there was another glen Lowry guest who talked about the selective forces causing fathers to leave due to the ratio of
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Black men available in the dating pool compared to black woman to incarceration and violence just in a natural selection sense there is less incentive to stay because there is less competition, not saying that is a fact just a interesting take i had never heard
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The thing loury, McWhorter, Hughes, Steele, etc seem to try and get at in different ways is that social policy is probably not going to fix racism, historical oppression, and unequal achievement gaps. That there is no monocasual easy villain one can vanquish and solve the problem
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Not C. Murray and advocating state interventions, but looking to empower disenfranchised communities in ways that are less condescending, more directly helpful, and trying to move the perception away from their people as victims lacking agency doomed to eternal underclasshood.
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In an interview about The Bell Curve, Murray once made the point that, in terms of actual policy, environmental differences are almost as hard to ameliorate as genetic ones. I personally suspect genetic equality will come first and then environment will viscously fought over.
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