82: Scott Alexander & Slate Star Codex, with David Gerard and Elizabeth Sandifer
I Don't Speak German
The Invention of the Way Race
Historians have good documentation of the process of what we call race being invented. There's a great thing on Andrew Hickey's podcast 500 songs about how Charlie Mingus was just sick of white people so he didn't want to work with them. He's not white he's Italian Italians were added to white in historical memory that sort of thing. Right. So Scott of course took on the attitudes of his subculture and human biodiversity is probably partially correct or at least very non-prolably not correct. You can't say it either. Not just non-proLable non-correct but very non-Prolably not wrong. Is that stronger than quite not very non-
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