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There is something bizarre about “high-IQ” as an identity core like with Mensa. Like a trade union of capitalists or a commune of libertarians. Or that South Park joke about the anti-semitic sect of Judaism. Shouldn’t you be winning Nobels, rather than performing identity?
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1) The IQ required to join Mensa is not that much higher than the average everyday doctor or lawyer so I think you’re asking a little much. 2) People with high IQ do not owe the world their intellectual labor any more than, say, women owe men their emotional labor.
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3) Isn’t there enough unhappiness in the world without you mocking one of the few organizations that offer some people othered by their mental traits any sense of community? 4) Why are you wasting your time virtue-signalling your well-adjusted egalitarianism? In other words...
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Perhaps Mensa resists dangers, but that doesn’t change the fact that associating based on a strength like IQ makes it more of a sort of elite flight than a sort of solidarity against othering and oppression. Basically I have a problem with high-IQ being played as a victim card.