How a libertarian economist learned to embrace Race Realism

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[–]send_nasty_stuffNational Socialist 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Great to see you post again CR! I'll check out the interview as soon as I get a chance.

[–]MostBasedRedditor 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

I'll bet there is alot of professors who are race realists but just aren't/can't be open about it. Good read

[–]GConly 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I had a very enlightening conversation with a PhD who's speciality was the evolution of the human brain.

He told me virtually everyone involved in his field knows damn well where the data is pointing. And they'd end up unemployed, tenure or not, if they came out and said it.

So he's taking to posting anonymously on line. Quite a few of the anon blogger's on this subject are qualified in relevant fields.

[–]DragonerneJesus is white 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This makes absolutely sense. It would also explain why the level of arguments are so high.

[–]Nombre27 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's entirely incoherent to think evolution is real while also thinking biological egalitarianism can be true. I suppose there's an extremely small probability that biology could play out like that in some sort of work of science fiction involving a multiverse (possible Rick and Morty episode, that would really fuck up a lot of peoples day), but that's not how things have worked out in our reality.

[–]GConly 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

it's entirely incoherent to think evolution is real while also thinking biological egalitarianism can be true.

That's pretty much what my friend said. Something along the lines of 'you'd have to believe evolution of the brain stopped just before the OOA migration'.

He then went on to give me a list of post OOA mutations to the brain.

To quote a well known biologist... The egalitarian claim that the brain development must be the same in all groups doesn't past the smell test.

[–]JuliusCaesar225Nationalist + Socialist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The sciences continue to progress but most scientists don't want to talk about what the new data means for our understanding of human populations. It seems even the Out of Africa theory is wrong and now we are also learning humans mixed with different archaic humans in different amounts. It has already been acknowledged the mixing occurred but somehow scientists don't talk about what that means in regards to humans being all one "race".

[–]GConly 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It seems even the Out of Africa theory is wrong

It's "mostly out of Africa, and a lot longer ago than claimed".

The OOA date is about 130k ish. Not the 40k you sometimes see.

The shit I got prior to 2010 for supporting Neanderthal introgression. Apparently it was racist to say so.

I had an public argument with a PhD who very snottily told me it wasn't possible... Literally three weeks before a major study proved I was right and he was wrong.

That was my first PhD scalp. Some of them are idiots.

[–]Nombre27 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When you look at many of the fossils that they have to work with, it calls into question many of the findings in archaeology.

Molars, half of one side of a jawbone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denisovan

If there isn't any solid genetic sequencing data to go with fossil claims then I don't really see how they can support what they're asserting unless they have an entire skeleton, ideally multiple whole skeletons to validate what they think they're seeing/measuring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_erectus

Assertion

Like modern humans and unlike other great apes, there does not seem to have been a great size disparity between H. erectus men and women (size-specific sexual dimorphism),

Evidence

though there is not much fossil data regarding this.

Then there's the fact that there was a race to tag a fossil with your name, so there's a bunch that got named after people for being unique when it's likely questionable.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Hey, I haven't seen you for a while. Your Reddit account got suspended. It's good to have you back.