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On 1/10/25 3:37 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 06:59:08 -0600, chrisv wrote:
> 
>> rbowman wrote:
>>
>>> Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      Social conceptions and groupings of races have varied over time,
>>>>      often involving folk taxonomies that define essential types of
>>>>      individuals based on perceived traits. Modern scientists consider
>>>>      such biological essentialism obsolete, and generally discourage
>>>>      racial explanations for collective differentiation in both
>>>>      physical and behavioral traits.
>>>
>>> To be perfectly clear -- fuck modern scientists and modernity in
>>> general.
>>
>> Too many of them go where the funding is, which is from leftists and
>> communists.  Wannabe tyrants.
> 
> If the lack of funding doesn't get them the cancel culture will. Back in
> the '80s James Watson gave a talk at the Harvard Coop bookstore that I
> happened into by chance. He realized the ice he was skating on was very
> thin and it started to crack during the Q&A session following.
> 
> It took about 20 years before his unfiltered comments got him canceled.
> His views had not changed but the left captured the power.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watson
> 
> "In 2007, Watson said, "I turned against the left wing because they don't
> like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail
> because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the
> evil system."
> 
> Science be damned when there is an ideology involved. It hasn't changed
> since the days when the earth was the center of the universe because the
> bible told me so.
> 


You're mistaking science with science in the hands of cro-magnons. It is 
a cro-magnon feature to use "science" as such.

This problem will soon self-correct though. Science will go among Modern 
Humans where it belongs.