You know, I too have a gift. It’s called exposing pseudoliberals, allow me to show you how it works.
(Oh, but before we start, one reminder, innocence until proven guilty has been the standard of justice basically in all of recorded history because societies that switch to guilty until proven innocent don’t survive long enough to record much of anything.)
Here is an example of a pseudoliberal denouncing liberal values as white supremacy/nazism, an all to common fad these days:
(Note, I can’t go back to someplace I’ve never been, but let’s not worry about that now.)
"But that’s not denouncing liberalism!", I can already hear you saying, so here comes the proof. In the case of this particular pseudoliberal, an appeal to empirically rigorous and peer reviewed conclusions is to be accepted above all others, if we are to take him at his disingenuous words. So let’s give it to him.
en.wikipedia.org
The Wilson Effect: The Increase in Heritability of IQ With Age - Volume 16 Issue 5
www.cambridge.org
As we can see from these documents, by the age of adulthood, IQ score is determined primarily by genetic components, which accounts for about 80% of the variance. Slice that number whichever way you like, what you are unlikely to be able to do is explain a reliable 15 point variance in average IQ scores between two arbitrary population groups in terms of social factors. That’s the measured average IQ gap between American whites and African Americans, btw. A more direct comparison of Africans without European heritage versus Europeans renders a 30 point gap, which is the dilemma South Africa is faced with. You wanna argue that race is a social construct, fine, but it doesn’t change the numbers at the end of the day.
I’m sure Bayesian analysis guy could do a Bayesian analysis to figure out what the chances are that a 30 point gap could be explained by social features when genetics controls 80% of the variance, but he won’t like the answer, so this hate fact he will simply *ignore*
When intelligence and socioeconomic background are pitted directly against one another, intelligence is a more accurate predictor of future career success, researchers have found.
www.sciencedaily.com
Also, IQ is the single biggest predictor of socioeconomic success that we know of. If you want to get ahead in life and have a choice of being born rich, or being born smart, smart is the better choice.
In the previous example, my IQ wasn’t even high enough to be the top in my school. But you know what happens when instead it’s compared with the baseline scored by Africans in South Africa? Statistically, I can count the number of black people in the entire country who should be my statistical peers on 3 hands. The ENTIRE COUNTRY. Attempts to help people improve their IQ have been less successful than the diet industry has been at helping people lose weight, which is to say that there is no socioeconomic intervention on Earth that will change things so that black and white people achieve socioeconomic parity short of literally enslaving the whites and abandoning meritocracy altogether, FOREVER.
What I can therefore tell you, is that any analysis of "structural racism", which does not account for the possibility of genetic disparities between the population groups, will not be worth the paper it is printed on, and can be dismissed out of hand as biased nonsense that assumes guilt rather than proves it.
Now, I never liked apartheid even though it ended before I started school, and I think racially segregating people is stupid and wrong. But that doesn’t mean that white people are now responsible for the socioeconomic ills of black people for all eternity, especially when no fix exists to resolve the disparity. And the fact that I therefore reject any fucking notion that I should just accept responsbility for this, as if my guilt can be assumed, when there is no real evidence with which to convict me, does not in fact make me a closet Nazi. It just makes me someone who wants a society that won’t devolve into a bloodthirsty totalitarian nightmare as it vainly keeps escalating its attempts to accomplish the impossible, and a genuine liberal wouldn’t be so confused about their own worldview as to mistake liberalism for Nazism or to compromise their own politics so as to run interference for illiberal commies.
And so you think that I was missing the point, but as you can see, no, no I wasn’t at all. Tell me, what does Spizz’s virtue signalling accomplish besides him marking himself guilty of a crime he’s not ultimately responsible for? I mean sure, the conservative story of individual personal effort as the path to success might be a myth, but so is every other promise of success, so why single THEM out for being unrealistic? Special pleading is dumb, yo. If you want to focus on a significant difference, then focus on the fact that the narrative of self-improvement, if implemented at scale, will not get millions killed by an overbearing state authority... you can’t say the same thing about this white privilege shit.