…And if it weren’t for that one joke by Hannibal, Bill Cosby would be very uncontroversial.

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    TracingWoodgrains seems to have developed, in the process of leaving mormonism, an obsession with seeking out contrarianism. But more importantly, he openly admits to being racist/HBD “align[s] broadly with informed experts that the distribution of genetic traits associated with intelligence is non-zero” and “questions of genetics and IQ, including when it comes to group differences, are worth taking seriously”. As such, he only considers it “racism” if it’s “racial crassness and antagonism”.

    In which TW names who he thinks is treating the topic with the seriousness it demands without sinking to crassness: our good good friend Cremieux.

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      align[s] broadly with informed experts that the distribution of genetic traits associated with intelligence is non-zero

      Now I’m not the smartest cookie in the bakery but I know a dog-whistle when I see it!

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      the distribution of genetic traits associated with intelligence is non-zero

      This doesn’t even make sense. What the fuck is a zero distribution? A probability distribution cannot be “zero” in any sensible meaning of the word. Did you mean uniform?

      Also obv citation needed you sack of spuds.

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        I think he is trying to say something like “non-zero skew”, but really, he just means “I subscribe to race science, but only for the articles”.

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          I think you’re being too generous. What they wanted to say is “There are genetic traits associated with intelligence.” However, not inserting probability distributions in every fucking sentence is a class 2 misdemeanor in Rat circles, hence what was written.

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      Woow, TIL. I thought he was halfway decent from the way he flatly called sailer a racist (low bar I know), but his consistent fraternization with Hannania seemed strange to me.

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      Is “informed experts” really an accurate description to use over “other racists?”