RE: Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
September 1, 2018 at 9:06 am
(This post was last modified: September 1, 2018 at 9:12 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 1, 2018 at 8:56 am)PRJA93 Wrote:I'll give you an example, from the thread. The heritability of IQ. The claim that genetics (race, in a racists eyes) account for 70-80% of differences on IQ scores, the remainder being environmental (15%ish) and unquantified. That's true..but it's selectively mined. Its true -within- a control group called High-SES. High socioeconomic status. The same study, in the Low-SES control group, found a direct inversion of the relationship. Estimated heritability was only 10%.(September 1, 2018 at 8:46 am)Khemikal Wrote: It doesn't matter how many times scientific racism gets debunked, there will always be someone ready to sell it all over again and then complain, all over again, that their "truth" is being shouted down for political reasons.
How is admitting there may be differences in different races, racist?
Scientific racism points to the first half of their finding, omits the other, and uses that as a justification for an argument known as "the inevitability of black poverty". The notion that a "difference" between the races, in this case iq, leads to a pronounced demographic trend in poverty. It does this..because it's not science, it's just racism.
Quote:So long as scientific information isn't used to justify hatred or discrimination against a specific group of people, it's just information.See above.
Quote:You seem to be the one turning it into an issue of hate.
Sure.
Would you like another example?
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