I don’t see intelligence inversely correlated with racism either.
Increasingly byzantine rationalizations for why you’re an asshole used to be the centerpiece of conservative intellectualism. You could get a PhD in racism if you worked hard enough. The SCOTUS and the appellate courts are packed with people who can tie an argument in knots to justify some new level of human misery. The Pentagon and its contracting affiliates are stuffed with top tier engineers and logistical savants and IT professionals fully inducted into the white supremacist worldview.
Some of the most impressive feats of social engineering have occurred in order to perpetuate social anxiety between ethnic groups.
I don’t see intelligence inversely correlated with racism either.
I do. Racism is in direct conflict with Empathy and Empathy can be biologically explained by Mirror Neurons, which influences how learning works. At least the Learning by Example type of education.
I think the issue is we don’t really have a measurement for intelligence. Qualitatively, I think you are more intelligent if you have the reasoning capabilities to logic yourself out of reactionary feelings like racism, but it’s really hard to measure that.
I don’t think such moral questions are at all influenced by intelligence, personally. Is there any data on this? I imagine it must be very hard since biological differences exists and it all kinda boils down to value judgments, which cannot be derived directly from scientific research alone.
I realize while arguing this that is is an extremely sensitive and hairy subject to even argue around. I appreciate you entertaining this 😄😄
Instead of evaluating people on an individual basis it’s categorizing them based on some physical trait. That has nothing to do with their behavior or personality.
This is why bigotry is the game of the lazy thinkers.
Lazy thinkers are not intelligent because to foster intelligence one must delve into things. Consider things. Contemplate how things work.
I don’t disagree with the sentiment, however this is a strawman argument. I don’t see intelligence inversely correlated with racism either.
Increasingly byzantine rationalizations for why you’re an asshole used to be the centerpiece of conservative intellectualism. You could get a PhD in racism if you worked hard enough. The SCOTUS and the appellate courts are packed with people who can tie an argument in knots to justify some new level of human misery. The Pentagon and its contracting affiliates are stuffed with top tier engineers and logistical savants and IT professionals fully inducted into the white supremacist worldview.
Some of the most impressive feats of social engineering have occurred in order to perpetuate social anxiety between ethnic groups.
I do. Racism is in direct conflict with Empathy and Empathy can be biologically explained by Mirror Neurons, which influences how learning works. At least the Learning by Example type of education.
It’s obviously not a strict one-to-one relationship but I do think more intelligent people are on average slightly less racist.
I think the issue is we don’t really have a measurement for intelligence. Qualitatively, I think you are more intelligent if you have the reasoning capabilities to logic yourself out of reactionary feelings like racism, but it’s really hard to measure that.
I don’t think such moral questions are at all influenced by intelligence, personally. Is there any data on this? I imagine it must be very hard since biological differences exists and it all kinda boils down to value judgments, which cannot be derived directly from scientific research alone. I realize while arguing this that is is an extremely sensitive and hairy subject to even argue around. I appreciate you entertaining this 😄😄
It’s a product of lazy thinking.
Instead of evaluating people on an individual basis it’s categorizing them based on some physical trait. That has nothing to do with their behavior or personality.
This is why bigotry is the game of the lazy thinkers.
Lazy thinkers are not intelligent because to foster intelligence one must delve into things. Consider things. Contemplate how things work.
Not just accept crude rules because it’s easy.
This trait is called. Need for cognition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_cognition
It’s highly correlated with intelligence.