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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You're making it sound like Mensa is a bunch of people in a room, celebrating how great it is to be smart.
(Not a Mensan nor have I ever been but) that is not how *they* see themselves at all. They seem to celebrate curiosity, knowledge, diverse expertise. From their website:
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My point is using IQ as the first gate is the problematic part. That doesn’t preclude special interests within.
Ie there’s a difference between a Mensa chess group and a regular chess group
There’s a difference between a billionaire poker group and regular
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I agree that all gatekeeping is inherently problematic, but is also, unfortunately, pretty common. But it also doesn't immediately render an organization "bad" - nor vice versa. The NRA is quite democratic...

