You could throw out all of the sciences with a standard like that.

'Genes matter' is not pure genetic determinism.

no race realist worth his salt would ever claim genes are exclusively the cause for behavior, dems stupid claims lmao

Race realism is constantly being strawmanned like that, cytos.

aye i kno, im in timcasts discord after all

i kno what he believes on this from his opinion videos after all

For me specifically it’s annoying to deal because people use this to imply they are “genetically superior”/“higher IQ” than myself without having any knowledge of my lineage.

They just look at factors like skin color.

they cant be that high IQ if they dont even understand that, to use the olde saying, even a blind pig finds a truffle from time to time

They have no idea of my successes, the successes of my father, or my grandfathers.

Well that’s what I see when looking at “race realism.”

'Race is just skin color' is yet another strawman.

It’s not a straw man when you have people running around talking about “white race” and “white culture”.

Anyone with the slightest learning in biology knows that genetic diversity touches everything, not just skin color.

People genuinely believe this shit.

They're talking about people from Europe.

Nobody should have to explain to you that 'white' refers to European ancestry.

Most “race realists” talk about “low IQ black people” and “high IQ white/Chinese people”

And?

if they are actual race realists, it would be jewish/asian people

They're talking about the differences in average IQ.

thats how you can tell the difference

“And” you’re being as vague and contradictory as “libertarian socialists.”

Species is a great subject.

Race is a terrible subject.

Individual intelligence is a great subject.

Species and race have the same conceptual problems.

Collective intelligence is a terrible subject.

Individuals are great.

Groups are terrible.

(as terrible as their worst member)

Average intelligence is not 'collective intelligence'.

Okay y'know that show deadliest warrior?

predictive validity is valuable data

That stupid ass show that will use two different swords on a dummy

And then the sword that did the most damage is the "better sword"

Regardless if it was a falchion and a khukuri or whatever the hell?

A normal sane viewer will see that and go

"YOU DUMBFUCK, THEY HAVE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS."

Talking about racial intelligence, is like being the guy on that show."