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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)
Scooter pulls out Richard Lynnās national IQ figures. https://archive.is/BJ6bd
Iām sure Iām not the first to note it, but there is a kind of irony in Scott and the gang using such a clear example of a motte-and-bailey argument (got to find a better phrase for that. Maybe some pithy reference to Patton at Calais to maintain the history theme? Inflatable Tank Defense?) in regards to IQ. When talking among friends they treat IQ tests like they are a strong correlate with innate intelligence, no caveats. As such IQ test scores are a reason to ignore environmental factors and not bother investing in equity-minded interventions. But when someone makes the obviously racist conclusion too visible, the argument shifts to be about how actually the correlations between IQ and environmental factors are obvious and really this supports anti racism. Itās a straightforward form of decontextualization that relies on completely ignoring the entire history and contemporary arguments around IQ to defends a single data point. Of course once everyone agrees with that data point they can go right back to the wildly racist nonsense that they were doing in the first place.
Only got a paragraph in because of the cheerful citation of aporia (the big Nazi website)
I love how he goes on and on about how it actually totally makes sense for the average IQ in Malawi to be 60 because most people donāt graduate school, ignoring that Lynnās methodology wasnāt up to any basic standard
And by love I mean I fucking hate it
oh my god i didnāt catch that this was astro slate star and thought i was reading some overtly racist piece of shit instead of a covert racist piece of shit. i havenāt kept up with him lately but this this seems very fucked up even by scottās standards.
Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu (pause to catch breath) uh.
A well at least the mask is totally off now.
E: and a thing that has been bothering me, it is quite fucked up for somebody with Scotts education to go along with this argument about disabled people that easily.
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(Not that this is the first time he forgets he has an official education, and cant just ignore that (yes im still mad about the time he said āwell she had mental health issues and was a liarā or something about the woman who tragically ended her life after accusing parts of the community of sexual abuse, and didnt mention that a reputation like that would increase the risk of abuse)).
āIsnāt this a racist thing to say? Not according to Hitler!ā
1000 out of 1000 mengeles agree
jesus fucking christ
bonus steve sailer in the comments
That isnāt a bonus. He is always in the comments. <include OkayButThatsWorseYouDoGetHowThatsWorseRight.gif>
This is what I get for not following these people!
It remains one of those small !!fun!! facts that while Marxbro got permad for being annoying and correct about Marx, Sailer only got a temp ban while being wrong, racist but nice (he has been banned at least once, but racists play by the Tusken Raider rules if not permad)
I donāt understand this comment (largely for not knowing where any of these things happened) and since itās the tail end of a Friday at the tail end of a long and stupid week
I think thatās okay. I think Iām just not going to ask this once. Just not know a thing, as a bit. Itāll be novel!
It was all a long time ago. In the time of myth and legend. When the mastodons roamed reddit.