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82: Scott Alexander & Slate Star Codex, with David Gerard and Elizabeth Sandifer

I Don't Speak German

CHAPTER

The California Ideology and the Scientific Racism

Scientific racism is absolutely mainstream in the rational subculture right has been since the beginning. There's a early on heralded you Kowski blog post that's clearly kind of quietly recycling scientific racist at talking points about evolutionary psychology. It's obviously correct. Obviously our psychology evolved. And that's all you need to know because you know it's obvious from first principles. Never minding who's actually looked and said, you know, it turns out it's actually more complicated than that.

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