Posted on 09/15/2024 5:41:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The most career-destroying, toxic heresy in today’s hypersensitive world is attributing highly valued traits such as intelligence to a person’s genes and then saying that these and other biologically hard-wired traits were unevenly distributed across population groups.
To say, for example, that the Chinese disproportionately succeed academically due to their genes, not unearned privilege, luck, or any other environmental factor, violates this taboo.
The opposite is the blank slate theory of human nature. Here everything is environmentally determined and according to Steven Pinker, the blank slate view of human nature dominates today’s intellectual life.
Those rejecting this blank slate ideology will be punished regardless of evidence or expertise. James Watson, the Nobel Prize winning co-discover of DNA was fired from his position and widely excoriated for speculating sub-Saharan African economic dysfunction might reflect their lower and genetically determined IQs.
Meanwhile, countless scientists anxious to remain employed will twist themselves into knots to avoid even hinting of biological differences across population groups to explain unequal outcomes in educational attainment, crime, health and elsewhere.
In principle, this taboo is entirely amenable to scientific inquiry. We are not in the 15th century where contrarian views on impossible-to-prove religious dogma such as free will vs. determinism, might get you burned at the stake. In fact, thousands of scientists do study the role genes play and publish their findings, though nearly all of this research focuses on plants and animals, not humans.
Why the fear of documenting the impact of genetics on human behavior?
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Yet the left will orchestrate the illegal invasion of low IQ groups in an effort to displace the higher IQ groups that they hate. I suppose they think they can exempt themselves from this process.
IMHO the left is importing people from cultures that didn’t have the spiritual Great Awakening that our ancestors had in the 18th - 20th centuries.
“The wisdom of the Roman lyric poet Horace (65 B.C. - 8 B.C.) is worth heeding: “You may throw out nature with a pitchfork, but she keeps on coming back.” “
Nature will not be mocked - sooner than later it will get its revenge.
China must be salivating at the prospect of a DEI run America.
Academia has wasted innumerable man-centuries of debate over the tired “nature vs nurture” dilemma, resisting as only True Believers can, the mountain of evidence that there are indeed differences among sub-populations in the distribution of heritable traits. Measures of central tendency differ reliably, while the overall distributions heavily overlap.
By acting as if these statistical variations do not exist, the Left seeks to dehumanize the population by forcing adoption of the tabula rasa hypothesis in the name of a specious egalitarianism. The real purpose of course is to reduce humanity to a population of interchangeable drones, serving only the hive instead of themselves.
BTTT
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Give everyone training for a job.
Give everyone education to become good, productive citizens.
Randolf Duke proved environmental factors determined a person’s success.
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Then the DEI culture should be improving things?
I take it you never saw Trading Places?
I take it that you never got beat up because you were white.
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