Richard Hakania
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@bitemxrk
@Evolutionistrue
But they *don't* classify sex in 2 discrete binary categories based on chromosomes or secondary sex traits. They classify sex in 2 discrete binary categories based on gametes: no matter what chromosomes you may have, or what your secondary sex traits may be, if you have >
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@legndofphoenix
@KernProp
@StewartCBova
@egaliarchy
@Navy_Hipple
@DreamLeaf5
To be fair, you are the one pathologizing all conservatives as bigots, so it’s not as if their complaints are unfounded.
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@bitemxrk
@Evolutionistrue
> sperm-producing (testicular) tissue, you are male, and if you have ovarian (egg-producing) tissue, you are female (even if that tissue may be non-functional due to developmental disorders, accident or age).
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@Albertawatcher
@wanyeburkett
"Inherently" is a word that often gets used to paint in as negative a light as possible any claims about the biological underpinnings of differences in human behavior, and we should try to avoid it. But yes - *on average* boys are more likely to be predisposed to aggression.
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@blknpetty
@wanyeburkett
"Race science" in practice seems to just be progressive-speak for "population genetics that produces results that I don't like", so, sure, there has been *some* pseudoscience, but there has also been some actual science on the differences between human populations.
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@JurrasicFart2
@keepweedillegaI
The Maya were defeated by the Spanish, but they weren't wiped out, and not all of them were culturally assimilated. Apparently there are still ~6 million people who speak one of the Mayan languages as their mother tongue.
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@Shiftant
@deusxxmakina
@0x49fa98
Uncle Ted, who lives in cabin and has an IQ of over 10,000, is an outlier adn should not be counted
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@TorEkelandPLLC
@lastpositivist
"I've always thought people who believe in [best measure we have of interpersonal differences in intelligence] to be [classification that only makes sense if you believe that you can discern interpersonal differences in intelligence]"
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@geodesic_dome
Okay, but are those rainbow-sized eyebrows to scale on a giant woman, or are we talking about a normal-sized woman with collossally huge eyebrows?
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@MKmas112
@RdHdSteppeson
@anarchyinblack
Are you a suffiently high-quality racist to be able to pronounce 'g' and 'b' at the same time?
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@oolon
Surely, even from your partisan position, you can understand that people might be worried about their legitimate criticisms of the trans movement being mischaracterized as "inciting hatred" and them facing legal persecution just for arguing their case?
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@FactsMatterPpl
@Ossy_Salame
@KatyMontgomerie
@PornPanic
All of those are either males with a disorder of sex development, or females with a disorder of sex development. Chromosomes are not sexes.
I recommend following
@zaelefty
for more information.
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@dsbcrypto
@Babygravy9
Calories-in-calories-out is technically true, but if you go on a medication that increases the rate at which your body stores calories, and don't have outlier high self-control, you're probably going to gain weight. This woman wasn't overweight in the 'before' picture.
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@SAMOYEDWAVE
@krisf0138
Please stop pretending to be stupid. "Store" in this context obviously does not refer to the physical building, but is short-hand for "the people who own and manage the store".
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@Hockeystt
@AP
I’m pretty sure that’s not what he’s concerned about. It’s more along the lines of “my religion holds that X is immoral; I refuse to do bespoke creative work that actively celebrates X”
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@j0rdan0fjupit3r
@potatoslav
This isn't racism by any normal definition of the term - at worst it's maybe a little patronizing. They do not look like they are dressing up for the purpose of *mocking* the Native Americans - if anything, this is more likely to be honoring a foreign culture they admire.
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@Thuso1Africa
It's very obvious that SA has a lot of black people who really hate whites, and a lot of white people who really hate blacks - surely the conflict minimizing solution is to allow *everyone* who wants to set up their own ethnic enclaves to do so?
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@jdkale1
@extradeadjcb
What he's arguing for is for people who want to have segregated neighbourhoods to be allowed to, and for people who want to have non-segregated neighborhoods to also be allowed to. What is your actual objection to that?
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@Vrilbilly
@patrickbasedmn
To be fair, Taylor would have come across more graciously if he had just read “atmospheric” as “environmental” from the outset, which it was clearly intended to mean.
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@DavidKenned
@amalieskram
Just because languages are constantly evolving doesn't mean they aren't a property of the culture that speaks them, as long as they remain recognizably different from the languages spoken by other cultures. Neither English nor French are the same languages as they were >
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@drieulf
@patrickbasedmn
No, the appropriate response is to challenge him to a proper face-off :-)
“You choose any mainstream professionally administered IQ test, we both sit it (live on air if possible) and announce the results.”
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@EqualityEd
@Steve_Sailer
@prof_gabriele
She's promoting a 'narrative' that black people have lower IQs *on average* (a claim which seems overwhelmingly likely to be true on currently-available evidence). If you have good evidence that she's wrong, you're welcome to present it.
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@OccupyMyGov
@RVAwonk
Stochastic terrorism is, in practice, a rhetorical trick to deflect any criticism by using the fact that the number of nutcases who will commit violence after latching on to any particular ideological claims can never be zero. Doctor Rollergator explains:
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@jimdigs
@RWPUSA
@pennlaw
No one is claiming that differences in skin color *cause* differences in average intelligence. They are simply correlated. The genes that code for particular skin colors happen to be more prevalent in the same populations as the genes that influence particular average IQ levels.
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@HeydonEmily
@katiedimartin
That’s the exact opposite of what I understand to be the case from everything I’ve read on the subject - the *existence* of differences in average cognitive ability between populations hasn’t been in any serious doubt among professional intelligence researchers for decades, >
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@greenfaerie
@OwenJones84
If you speak only English, and, say, a quarter of the people in your town speak only Punjabi, and another quarter speak only Polish, that's a lot of nominal fellow townspeople that you can have basically no meaningful interaction with until you learn their language(s) or they >
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@mbeisen
@egfalken
@AllofUsResearch
@Nature
As long as we are clear that the genetic variation is mostly clinal, the genetic distinctiveness of populations that roughly map onto social races is a *real phenomenon* that it behooves us not to lie about if we want to understand reality.
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@MonkeybigDluff1
@OuterZan
@huhsuspended1
@Lorien_MI
@emeriticus
I think the real answer is that *most* people, regardless of race, have greater value than George Floyd, because most people aren't petty criminals with a net-negative effect on society. Thus by default, in the absense of any other info, we should assume that *anyone* who >
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@ava_enom
@AfricanArchives
Are they still doing it? Or do you now have a fully legally-protected right to vote without any tests required?
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@HebertMcquinn
@ConCaracal
Presumably the thing being compared is *net* fiscal effect - people who pay more to the government in taxes than they receive in handouts, and vice-versa.
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@Rozell6James
@BarkAtSociopath
Preventing the birth of Down Syndrome kids isn't really much to do with eugenics in the normal sense, because people with Down Syndrome are very unlikely to reproduce. But in any case, what on earth is wrong with this sort of eugenics?
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@ChristineHillCo
@JHLillevik
If they "don't want to do anything to accommodate women", and the thing you're complaining about is them being badly dressed and lacking social skills - i.e. nothing hostile, just being stereotypical nerdy misfits, then "asking them to conform" is exactly what you're doing.
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@averieway
@LeiracalMuse
@christapeterso
This is particularly weird, because normally, sterilizing a population would be squarely within the centre of the definition of genocide. But if people try to *prevent* the sort of transgender medicine that leads to infertility, that is still the accusation you make.
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@UnicornsRockUK
@ThomasWillett9
They're not *perfectly safe* for kids with precocious puberty (no medicine is), they're just deemed to be an acceptable risk compared to the risks of leaving precocious puberty untreated. They have been in use for this purpose since the 80s, so "untested" is implausible.
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@Pisthename1
@nathancofnas
@melissasigodo
They are a population (or rather a set of populations) with shared ancestry, genetically distinguishable from other shared ancestry groups. Whether that makes them a 'race' depends on how much of a lumper or a splitter you are, but whatever word you use doesn't matter for the >
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@CRShort81
@Jermont_II
You *can* eradicate an ideology by murdering all the people who hold it. But if the ideology is sufficiently reality-deficient, it should be fairly easy to reduce it to negligible status by removing its high-status proponents from power and educating the public on why it's false.
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@HeydonEmily
@katiedimartin
> and the only thing that’s still controversial is the causes of those differences.
What would you say is the single most persuasive piece of evidence from the last, say, 20 or 30 years in support of the hypothesis that all human groups have equal average intelligence?
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@whstancil
Very few of them are Nazis in the sense of actually advocating for the policies that the Nazis enacted. More of them agree with the Nazis on the narrow point that heredity matters in some way, but on that ground, the majority of humans throughout history would be Nazis. >
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@jdkale1
@extradeadjcb
You still haven't explained why voluntary segregation is bad. Why is it that when person A wants to live next to person B, but person B doesn't want to live next person A, person A's preferences should prevail, no matter how unpleasant a neighbor he is?
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@festinagirl
@UglaStefania
Charitably, the idea is that for trans women, vaginoplasty is entirely elective - it's cosmetic surgery, and it is worth publicizing the complications, including the need to dilate, in order to make sure that people who are on the fence about it do not rush into it unwittingly.
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@crystalandqueue
@ideagah
@RealBrysonGray
It's true; she *can* wear whatever she wants. But "how much sexual attention do I want to attract?" is a factor she needs to consider. If she *wants* to attract a lot of sexual attention when she's at the gym, fine. If she doesn't, she should wear something else.
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@skot75
@kittypurrzog
This is such a disingenuous take.
Gender skeptics: "Stop promoting things that will have horrible effects on teenagers' bodies."
Gender ideologues: "Why are you so obsessed with teenagers' bodies?"
It's the "doing horrible things" that your opponents are concerned about.
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@Singularityisc1
@HbdNrx
Technically true, but there are some traits that are so highly unlikely to be advantageous in the future - various congenital diseases, and intellectual disabilities, that you'd have to be really paranoid to not think them worth reducing.
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@KatyMontgomerie
If you actually click through, it’s hard to understand what’s objectionable about that. It’s clearly a throwaway remark that can be expanded to: “if even the Taliban, whose worldview is otherwise so wrong, still manage to get this question right, why can’t you?”.
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@verymadcrab
@Churchill_McG
Unless you are using an insanely gerrymandered definition of ‘impulsively violent’, you’d only need to imprison the tiny minority of cops who actually are unable to resist the urge to physically attack people when their own safety isn’t at risk.
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@GhawinRiver
“devalued them for being curvy”
Please just say “fat”. “Curvy” means “has big boobs/nice butt despite *not* being fat overall”.
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@jonashaak66
@HbdNrx
You are the one who is asserting the claim that the event described has happened at least once; you can't just demand that those who disagree have to prove a negative (for a cartoonish example, if I said that no human being has ever flown to Mars, and you disagreed, the onus >
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@twt9747074979
@dyeus_ph2ter
@GathererSkull
On an intellectual level, sure. But consider that women's curves may be akin to the peacock's fan - dead weight from a purely pragmatic perspective, but still attractive as the result of a sexual selection process.
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@3DPrinting_Phil
@thisissavvy1
We use "they" and "them" to refer to unidentified people whose sex is unknown - e.g. "someone left their wallet on this chair". Using "they" and "them" for a specific, named person of known sex is extremely non-standard English, except among gender ideologues.
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@HeydonEmily
@katiedimartin
Do you think that people shouldn’t be allowed to research cognitive differences between populations? That we should commit permanently to remaining ignorant on the subject?
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@SubtleBeats
@TorEkelandPLLC
@lastpositivist
No, it's better - as far as we can tell, no one has yet devised a *perfect* measure of intelligence, but neither has anyone yet devised a *better* measure of intelligence that a professionally administered IQ test, as revealed by predictive validity in telling in advance who >
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@Stargat63505608
@runthinkwrite
@KarenKts11
If there are people actively chanting "death to [group X]", it's perfectly legitimate for members of group X to rationally feel unsafe around them. Badenoch* is not calling for death to anyone, here, she is merely proposing to put some limits on the excesses of trans activism.
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@amayadeakins
@RoseS8563079559
@alexandrasaurus
No sane people on the trans skeptic side argue that *all* trans people are predatory; just that male people (including trans women) are *on average* more predatory than females, and that justifies keeping them out of female prisons.
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@verymadcrab
Their purpose is to apprehend criminals. They do so far from perfectly, and there’s a case to be made that they are more there to protect criminals from mob retribution than to protect the public from criminals, but the idea that they are *solely* there to hurt the ordinary >
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@Antagonist9696
@contro19
@iamyesyouareno
I don't know whether she's above the age of consent in whatever jurisdiction she lives in (in many states and countries, 16 is the age of consent, but whatever...). That doesn't mean that we need to feign stupidity and pretend to be unable to predict which girls who are >
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@MurrayBetta
@UsingLyft
@whstancil
And yet that 0.1% of difference is enough to code for the obvious physical differences big enough that we can usually tell at a glance what continental region someone's ancestors came from. There is no reason to presuppose that it can't contain code for cognitive differences too.
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@misha_saul
@krishnanrohit
I’ve heard it said that kids who grow up on farms don’t need their parents to explain much about human reproduction.
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@legaltweetz
@AMMcCormack2
If you are a female and you believe yourself to be a man, then sure, that is "simply who you are". But that makes you a female with a false belief; it doesn't make you actually a man, and no one else should be obliged to validate your belief.
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@KatyMontgomerie
@michaelpforan
There's no "but" going on here. The people sitting outside the venue have every right to verbally express their disapproval of (what they believe to be) the content of the talk that the woman is trying to get to. Trying to physically prevent someone from attending is different.
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@jhaushofer
@serbantanasa
Von Neumann was an Ashkenazi Jew (strong contenders for the crown of 'most intelligent ethnic group, on average'), and he was male (the sex that exhibits greater variability on many traits, including IQ).
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@treugolny_hui
@extradeadjcb
There's a step missing. It goes more like:
1: women want to be independent earners;
2: women get what they ask for;
3: fertility plummets as a result, threatening the long-term survival of the society;
4: trads correctly point this out;
5: progs nevertheless mock trads.
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@jsteinbrunner
@monitoringbias
Presumably when it comes to FBI crime statistics, he is going off the same categorization scheme that the FBI does.
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@MontyCristoCPA
@SwipeWright
There's "respect" in the sense of "I am provisionally prepared to believe that you are having the experiences you say you are having, and then there's "... and I accept that those experiences validate your political and/or psychomedical claims". The first is OK, the second isn't.
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@radnsubtract
@glukianoff
@StanfordLaw
If your school invites a guest speaker to give a talk, the civilized thing is to remain silent during the talk, so that those who came to hear the guest speaker can actually do so. Then, if you disagree with what the guest speaker says, do so in the Q&A session at the end.
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@Pete_eme
@LawSelfDefense
@whstancil
We have to prove that in order to be able to be able to say "yes, definitely, it is genetic and here are the specific genes". Likewise, if you want to claim that genes *don't* play any significant causal role in racial IQ gaps, you need to disprove it. At the moment, given >
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@signal_enjoyer
@mualphaxi
You say that as if you think that “reactionary” is inherently a pejorative term. It’s not; it depends on what someone is reacting against. If the thing they are reacting against is bad, then being a reactionary in that context is good. You actually need to prove that the status >
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@basic_chanel
@TECHNOCAPITAL_
Consider that you may be the one with unusual taste here. She’s not terrible-looking, but she’s really nothing special. If I tried to pin it down, I’d say her nose is a little long, her jaw a little too prominent, to be really top-tier beautiful.
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@LunaTheBotGirl
@SLightlybigguy1
@MattWalshBlog
Well, given how vastly more dangerous pit bulls are than chihuahuas, that’s not a rational fear. Just because you personally like them, doesn’t make it false that they are statistically much more dangerous than other dog breeds.
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@robinpearl
@Lilkinsly
@One_Supernova
@zaelefty
@EdKrassen
“Humans are gonochoric and thus cannot change sex, even though clownfish can” is not exactly a radical conservative position.
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@melinagoranson
@Gunship_Groyper
Meh. While we don't need to condone actual sexual assault, I think it's fair to say that if avoiding unwanted sexual attention is a particularly high priority for her, then wearing revealing clothing is in pragmatic terms a bad idea.
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@CovfefeAnon
One twist is that it is only relatively recently that we have lived in societies affluent enough for anyone outside the super-wealthy to do this. Most people, for most of human history, could only afford one set of fancy clothes at most. How was this instinct manifesting then?
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@e_considine
@opinonhaver
In this hypothetical, is Michelle Obama threatening to get you fired from your job / banned from public gatherings / otherwise treated like a pariah if you don't feed your kids what she wants you to?
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@MrSmarmyPants
@eyeslasho
There’s no standard definition for “language” as opposed to “dialect” either, and yet that doesn’t stop linguists from studying how one speech variety varies from another. What you probably want is something like: “a group of humans, traditionally occupying at least a large >
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@CatLadyNatalie
@nameshiv
No, he's clearly talking about "most Germans" during the period when Germany was ruled by the Nazis, not most Germans today.
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@MoltonAllan
@TwilightMemory1
@MorgothsReview
There are two rival hypotheses: Savile was protected because he was white / Savile was protected because he was a politically well-connected elite. If you are going to assert the first, you would need to show either that non-elite white pedophiles are routinely protected from >
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@aisling_bn
@JacobMalhotra
@webmasterdave
@anderssandberg
The first IQ tests were actually designed for French schoolchildren who were in danger of doing badly at school, with a view to identifying at an early age those who were likely to struggle academically, and funnel extra resources to them to prevent them falling behind. But >
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@DestroyTheMSM
@Rozell6James
@BarkAtSociopath
Well, I'm not sure why you'd think I'm a leftoid - and Roko certainly isn't - I'm just not someone who holds to the religious idea of life (or anything else) being sacred. In which case, I suspect that we don't really disagree about Down Syndrome in particular; we disagree >
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@jonnyRevv
@JustinWolfers
No, that’s what he wants *other* to think, assuming they will not spot the difference between “net immigration” (the number of people entering the country minus the no. of people leaving) and “net immigration growth” (the rate of change of net immigration).
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@bohemigrant
@eyeslasho
I think that if you're discussing the scientific study of the population differences in intelligence, and you spend ~100% of your time calling your opponents Nazis and other epithets, and ~0% actually linking to the studies that demonstrate that any such differences >
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@ThomasWillett9
@0xJANK
@bisssssnisss
There's a very important difference between publishing a book under an other-sex pseudonym and actually claiming to be a member of the other sex in real life. It's possible that the downstream consequences of allowing authors to publish under whatever pseudonyms they choose are >
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@ApplePaladin_
@charlesmurray
Well, we have to have some name for the scientific study of the differences between human populations. “Scientific racism” sounds like a deliberate attempt at poisoning the well, an attempt to use the moral valence of one definition of “racism “ (the mistreatment of people on >
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@CovfefeAnon
@_MedGold
@elonmusk
There is, of course, even a young Muskling who wouldn't be alive if it weren't for Roko.
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@SubtleBeats
@TorEkelandPLLC
@lastpositivist
> will thrive in highly cognitively-demanding situations.
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@fregsterino
@DrCJ_Houldcroft
@whippletom
It may be that bikes have not increased in desirability, but the (perceived) penalty for stealing them has decreased, which would also cause a rise in bike thefts. If the Tories are responsible for a decline in enforcement of the laws against theft, then they share in the blame.
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@lillybilly299
Maybe. But I’m not convinced that jaywalking laws are good laws. The UK lets people make their own decisions about when it’s safe to cross the road, and doesn’t seem to suffer an apocalypse of car/pedestrian collisions.
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@PoliticsMichael
@JamesEsses
Contemporary gender ideologues have *declared* that ‘woman’ is a term that refers to gender rather than sex, but that doesn’t make it so: most people still use it as a term that refers to sex.
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@si234le1292732
@nathancofnas
@melissasigodo
Judaism is a religion, but that doesn't preclude the possibility that the people who follow it are, in aggregate, genetically distinctive from the people who don't. Much like, if you studied people who follow Rastafarianism, or Hinduism, you could surely find a few followers >
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@MaitreyaBhakal
@eyeslasho
If you look up the Bantu Expansion, you’ll see that Africans really did commit rather a lot of genocide and imperialism over the years - they just did it in Africa. And where are the people living under slavery today?
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@HastaFuego
@thefempire50
@inmyownfashion2
@UglaStefania
We cannot, with current medical technology, change sex. The best we can do is sculpt the body into something more closely approximating the external phenotype of the opposite sex, but that's not the same thing.
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@jonashaak66
@HbdNrx
> would be on you to provide a well-documented instance of someone flying to Mars, not on me to prove that literally every human who ever lived, lived out their life without ever flying to Mars). If you think that at least one black person has been lynched simply for looking at >
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@ikariiprince
@pseudonimjz
@memeticsisyphus
No one is claiming that they can't also try to keep their impulses under control when faced with temptation; this is just about making it easier for yourself by removing an obvious source of temptation.
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@user0x61
@whstancil
If it turned out that the person who invented the stadiometer was a fanatical Height Supremacist who wanted to prove the superiority of tall people over short people, and invented a better device for measuring human height for that purpose, that wouldn't make the slightest >
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