here are two identical bell curves, separated by one standard deviation
we talk a lot around here about "failure to distinguish the general from the particular", but it goes both ways
normal people live here
here, the distributions are only weakly predictive - a lot can happen! what can you say!
if you are normal, your irl experience has taught you that it's not just immoral but *dumb* to generalize too strongly here, where you live
& you are correct
if you are +1SD, you live here
you still see a lot of blue here, which tantalizes - clearly blue can do well in this world, the blue you meet seems pretty normal, maybe we are Not So Different
a little harder to defend, but still a good way to live, if you live here
if you're exceptional, though, you live here, & the differences are much harder to ignore
this is also where almost all important things happen
lots of other newsworthy things happen here, mostly bad/sad things
if anyone has visited a place like this, you can't help wanting it to be different, you're desperate for a solution - it's like hell
It's very, very stupid not to generalize here, & when people refuse to it's very frustrating
these places are also where viral social media phenomena happen, so if you live on this segment of the curve & see this all day long, social media is an intensely validating place to be
is that a good thing? idk
when the normie tells you to touch grass, he is inviting you to meditate on this
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In the three countries in which it arose, fascism was a reaction of the middle-class to the unwillingness or incapacity of the ruling class to resist communism
In each case the ruling class (correctly) regarded the fascists as boorish, historically illiterate, & dangerous
If a category includes everything, it means nothing
"limiting" & "exclusionary" is literally what categories are
of course he's implying some ineffable *spiritual* essence to Scottishness but if you try to nail him down on who exemplifies it he'll say that's exclusionary too
You can tell your churchgoing aunt that her faith is being deployed cynically by people who hate her, but she's not supposed to care who makes the critique - only whether it's true
Can you explain to her why she shouldn't wash an abortionist's feet?
The lie here is not that Jesus said to Love Your Enemies (he did, & you should)
The lie is that you ought to prefer your enemies, or that your enemies get to tell you what loving them means, or that loving your enemies is inconsistent with arguing with them, or killing them
I don't mean it cynically, I take the Lord's words very seriously & I want to hear him
But he loved everyone in Sodom & Canaan with a perfect love - also every Make-a-Wish kid
If God has no obligation to make your life painless, I certainly don't
Disparate impact is not an immediate & direct abolition of property because the impact is examined in court, case by case
So instead of a spasm of bolshevik violence you have this spreading tumor of communist dysfunction in every domain where disparate impact has been tested
There's a very neat train of logic:
If HBD is not real, then disparate outcomes are prima facie evidence of discrimination
Because HBD is real, disparate outcomes are ubiquitous
This contradiction is precisely what gives the Left power - a limitless mandate to expropriate