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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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To claim high IQ as an othering trait is as disingenuous as claiming being a billionaire is a burden. I’m not mocking them because I think IQ is a *dangerous* identity anchor that should be discouraged. A gateway fetish that leads to racial supremacism, eugenics etc.
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Being a billionaire can be a burden. It can also be a blessing. It’s almost like things aren’t all one way or the other. In fact it’s not a bad analogy. Being born into wealth should be a blessing. But if a person isn’t raised in a way that helps them avoid the pitfalls of it...
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That recent trend is the reason IQ is in the news again. The whole “SJWs are suppressing the truth about IQ differences between races and genders and oppressing smart people” narrative. Only ever comes up when people are trying to enter a strength into an oppression Olympics.
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I’m eligible for many privilege-based patterns of association, but I neither join privilege based associations, nor give up my privileges where it is possible to. I think it wisest to be suspicious of our rationalizations of net-privileges as ‘burdens’
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