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Race IQ arguments

Jun 13th, 2017
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  1. Racial Egalitarianism is also unproven by the way
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  3. racial psychological genotypic differences exist, as it would be an evolutionary miracle if they didn't. Especially when, as Sam Harris, puts it: the similarity would only extend to what traits we care most about. The added convenience and reinforcement of a humanistic worldview makes it even more unlikely. A sentiment often called Lovecraft's Law
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  6. >subjectivity of whiteness
  7. Putting aside the obvious shared geography, relatedness, and appearance...
  8. Well he's not totally wrong about subjectivity of whiteness, but he's making the continuum fallacy or the fallacy of a single Arabic language.
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  10. If all white people were just Norwegians and Indians, we would say these are two clearly biologically distinct groups with no overlap. But it is because of an intermediate continuum from India through Persia, through Turkey and through the Balkans that he then denies a European race.
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  12. I.e. - Norwegians and Indians are distinct if there's no intermediate continuum, but the existence of an intermediate continuum suddenly means Norwegians and Indians are the same people?
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  14. Also the practical subjectivity is exaggerated.
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