Comment by radford-neal
6 years ago
"...he's allowed a community to build around him that views iq heritability as the main essentialist frame with which to view the world"
This is complete nonsense. Anyone who has read SSC knows that both Scott Alexander's posts and the comments cover a very wide range of topics. Occasional mentions of scientific views of human biology that don't fit your ideological preconceptions are a dominant part of the blog/community only in your distorted perceptions.
I read this as "occasional dalliances with race realism are acceptable because he talks about other topics."
No. It means that anyone who is not a hopeless ideologue knows that a just and humane society cannot be created on the basis of compelling people to assert things that anyone sane understands are simply not true.
> cannot be created on the basis of compelling people to assert things that anyone sane understands are simply not true.
Ah, so am I to understand here, that you are admitting you are a "race realist"?
Relevant post (relevant to this incident even, as a sort of "Round 1" from about a year or so ago): https://web.archive.org/web/20190228161939/https://slatestar... — best to read the whole post, but if not then look for the text around “scarily conservative”, the part from “very easy to moderate comment sections” to “your brand” to “dominated by”.
Thanks for sharing, this post is a perfect example.
> Some people think Charles Murray and The Bell Curve were right about everything. Some people think Islam represents an existential threat to the West. Some people think women are biologically less likely to be good at or interested in technology. ... Each of these views has adherents who are, no offense, smarter than you are. ... I disagree with most of them but don’t want to be too harsh on any of them.
These kinds of people should be kept out of "marketplace" entirely. The world is better off without blogs like this.
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