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jmbi | 6 years ago

An example is Vox's current tirade against YouTube with the goal of censoring certain creators in the name of one-sided "inclusivity."

What happens when Vox aims their influence at scientific publications publishing research with uncomfortable implications? For example, the genetic factor in IQ, violence, and development.

That's all I'm saying. I don't think their proclivity for censorship will merely stop at social media platforms.

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0815test|6 years ago

This is stuff that's severely misrepresented by the alt-right. Yes, there are statistical variations in IQ and criminality across social groups. No, there's no consensus whatsoever that all or even most of that is due to any sort of "genetic factor", and the plausible contribution of something like that is well within the "too small to matter" range!

Besides, these distributions are such that they can only ever matter in the large, as in "explain other large-scale social phenomena"; they don't tell you ANYTHING about any individual person that you couldn't garner way more easily and more reliably within a few seconds of interaction or even observation.

Most people (as in 99.999%) who bring up "race-IQ" connections as if they were some sort of forbidden truth are either white supremacists or clueless memebots, spreading a memetic infection of white-supremacist origin without even realizing that this is what they're doing. It's pure race baiting and white supremacy, not a serious attempt at social debate.

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