Orthodox Privilege

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7 points·nojs··5 comments

Same link from 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23845579

And yet folks who complain about not being able to speak never mention the things they can’t talk about.

I’ll give you a hint, it’s never their field of expertise, and in fact, 9 times out of 10, it’s racialized genetics, one of the single most well refuted subjects in the field of genetics.

Plenty of them do. Graham is smart enough not to, because the net gain to his life would be negative.

None of them even mention the topic, much less the actual belief.

And I’d be willing to bet that it isn’t his area of expertise, it’s something that he’s a curious amateur about and has a hunch, a hunch that has been thoroughly refuted by the experts.

Seriously, all of this “I’m being censored, but I can’t tell you about what” bullshit reminds me of timecube.

Same complaint, different window dressing.

> 9 times out of 10, it’s racialized genetics

Which is basically metaphysics, but stop and reflect on the Nick Cannon's discourse, and it's the same thing, racialized genetics.

Now stop and reflect on the El Paso's shooter's Death Letter and what was it? Racialized genetics.

It's all just good ol' Scholastic metaphysics of substances straight from the middle ages, just veiled in a mish-mash of pseudo-scientific and teleological rhetoric.

I don't think there's enough thought about why these ideas wield a near-monopoloy on thinking in the domain of race?

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