For example, Geoffrey Miller on Damore's "Google Memo" writes: "Its key claims about sex differences are especially well-supported by large volumes of research across species, cultures, and history."http://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists-respond/ …
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Miller continues, with what might be the most precise summations of the Alt-Lib philosophy of society ever written, and one of the greatest errors in their thinking: "Equality or diversity. You can’t have both."pic.twitter.com/5czbikofXO
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Equality vs. Diversity, Men vs. Women, Black vs. White, these binaries shape Alt-Lib thinking because of specific intellectual histories, myths, hierarchies, and explanations that Alt-Libs draw their ideas from, which are often the same ones that much of the Alt-Right use.
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You can see this underlying structure of binaries popping up everywhere across the Alt-Lib and Alt-Right horizon, like the jagged edges of a bio/psych-structuralist iceberg peeking above the waves in a churning sea of regressive brine.pic.twitter.com/siSJjOmtwT
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As a rallying cry, nothing could better serve Alt-Lib ideological aims than "there are only two genders!" - it's an ideal summation of their assertion of binaries as deriving from natural laws of the universe, and their myth of the dominance of those laws over society/culture/id.
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From "there are only two genders" you can extrapolate almost every other position they hold: essential genetic/biological differences between distinct races, essential genetic/biological differences in abilities/roles of men/women, truth/untruth, science/arts, right/wrong, etc.
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Some people find Alt-lib scholarship so appealing precisely because it validates their existing bigotry as "natural" or "a product of evolution" or as anything other than a material history of oppression reproduced through their refusal to address it.https://twitter.com/OmanReagan/status/966804913463345154 …
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So, what makes this kind of public (sometimes)academic discourse such a threat to the future that it's worth even worrying about? And why should scientists, STEM folks, social scientists, et al. be looking at what they're doing and refuting it? Here are a few issues...
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Alt-libs claim that they are the *only* people doing science correctly. For them everyone else is biased, everyone else has bad methods, everyone else is caught up in the "postmodern neo-Marxist" nexus of untruth that is ruining what used to be good about academia.
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As part of this belief Alt-libs are actively engaged, right now, in ongoing campaigns to actually destroy all social science and humanities departments in universities. Peterson: “a huge chunk of the humanities and the social sciences have turned into an indoctrination cult.”
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