12/ Which means ultimately, it's rather cruel to laugh at spelling bee racists: they are digitally isolated, technologically obsolete.
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13/ Where racism is threatened, such as urban areas, it might react violently, but this is more like taxicab drivers rioting against Uber
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14/ As LBJ found out in 60s, gains against racism results in pent-up violence being released as people sense detente failing, but net gain
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15/ There *is* such an outlet online as well: explosive reactionary fringe blogging. But closing ranks on social graph is death by isolation
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16/ In summary, racism, the cognitive technology equivalent of slide rules for interpersonal relationships, is headed for the museum.
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if anything, the capacity to adopt hip, unracist stances has a substitution effect on structures that get depoliticized.
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holding on to such structures will have increasing economic costs.
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I think that’s true as an opportunity cost, but I think apartheid is a local optimum for the rich—
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until they run out of racially pure business ideas to invest inheritances in: 3 generations tops.
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I think other cultural forces (like intermarriage) are going to be much bigger players in promoting contact
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Strong hypodescent prevents new races from emerging. Many "blacks" in US are like 70% white for instance. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypodesce
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Oh sure, I didn't mean on phenotypical shifts; I meant social via heterophily/homophily dynamics
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