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Now consider my one bit of expertise in this domain: race, IQ and genetics. IMHO people who endorse the idea that IQ gaps between so-called races have a genetic basis deserve to be condemned, and potentially denied professional privileges that are not protected by tenure. /4
The reasons are the same as for Holocaust denial: it has been litigated, there is no substantial reason to think it’s true, nothing new, and in the meantime it is disrespectful and harmful. /5
I concede the problem: race and genetics just happens to be my thing, and nowadays everyone has their own. Once you let the cancellation genie out of the bottle it’s hard to get him back in. What is to be done? /6
On the one hand, we can agree with the signatories that we can all make an effort to be a little more understanding of people we disagree with. /7
But the signatories could try to understand that the current boundaries of discourse-- Holocaust denialism is unacceptable, but suggesting that African people have evolved to be dumber than Europeans is a topic for civil scientific debate-- weren’t passed down on tablets. /8
Those boundaries were invented, mostly by rich tenured white people like me. The cancellation debate isn’t ultimately about a commitment to civil discourse, it is a debate about where revised boundaries should lie. /end
Not my field at all, but I am surprised to learn that anything about the heritability of complex traits is considered a closed book. I thought we were just beginning to understand these things.
Is it really true that the IQ gaps between different ethnic population groups is entirely environmental and has zero genetic basis? That has been proven by science?
Yeah, by objective "scientists" like Kevin Bird.pic.twitter.com/7lF15F7yRh
When biological and genetic differences are totally removed as potential causal factors for race and gender gaps, discrimination is thought to account for them entirely. This is also harmful- it's at the core of the destructive and divisive culture war raging as we speak.
On the comparison with holocaust denial- Many Ashkenazi Jews believe and publish on biological differences between groups, not because they're racist but because that's where the evidence leads them - equating them to holocaust deniers is a lot like calling them race traitors.
This comment confuses me. Agreed, the IQ-gap data is shoddy and there's no substantial reason to think it's true. However, it's still possible better data will emerge. The question remains »unsettled«. By contrast, the historicity of the holocaust is absolutely settled.
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