• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    Sowell has argued that systemic racism is an untested, questionable hypothesis, writing, “I don’t think even the people who use it have any clear idea what they’re saying”, and compared it to propaganda tactics used by Joseph Goebbels because if it is “repeated long enough and loud enough”, people “cave in” to it.

    In Intellectuals and Race (2013), Sowell argues that intelligence quotient (IQ) gaps are hardly startling or unusual between, or within, ethnic groups. He notes that the roughly 15-point gap in contemporary black–white IQ scores is similar to that between the national average and the scores of certain ethnic white groups in years past, in periods when the nation was absorbing new immigrants

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell#Race_and_ethnicity

    You’re promoting a far-right self-hating eugenicist. You are lying when you say you’re on the left.

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      There is a difference between genetics and eugenics. Eugenics seeks to modify progeny in order to weed out defects and promote certain characteristics. He is not propping up that line-of-thought. He is speaking to the genetic predisposition of ethnic groups. We all belong to different genotypes/phenotypes. I’m ashkenazi. We pretty much run everything and solve big problems. It’s kind of what we do. There was a ton of genetic variation in Africa. I don’t think that Sowell even was attempting to imply less IQ among black people and was showing a similar gradient as compared to other genetic backgrounds. His whole argument is nurture over nature. Systemic racism is just racism. Sure, there was some past redlining, but those issues have been corrected. I had nothing to do with past redlining and my taxes shouldn’t have to make concessions.

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        I had nothing to do with past redlining and my taxes shouldn’t have to make concessions.

        What are you even talking about now?