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Zero Contradictions's avatar

I agree with you over Kaufmann on this. Humanity won't be able to preserve modern civilization without a Hereditarian Revolution.

However, even hereditarianism won't be enough to sufficiently expand rationality. It's clear that even most hereditarians fail to correctly understand the other elements of Biological Realism. From a purely biological perspective, accepting innate racial differences will *not* be sufficient for creating functional societies.

Two weeks ago, I edited my page to reorganize and explain this more clearly. https://zerocontradictions.net/civilization/wokism#victory-requires-biorealism

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Zoltan Schreter's avatar

I think the arguments by Nathan and by Eric Kaufmann about the roots of woke are compatible. Both of them argue that the component energizing wokeness is a similar motivational one: 'Christian morality' (Nathan), 'bleeding heart liberalism' (Eric).

In fact, two motivations are involved: the first one can be described as empathy or compassion, as a reaction to blacks' problems and the existing disparities between blacks and other groups in the population.

The second motivation is guilt, underlying which is the idea that whites have caused those problems.

Thus, Nathan and Eric essentially agree in identifying the roots of wokeness. The main difference between Nathan and Eric lies, in my view, in the solutions that they propose.

Nathan focuses on the second motivational component: guilt. He says that if it can be proven for woke people that whites are not responsible for blacks' problems (by showing that those problems have their causes in the genetics of blacks), this will remove the guilt component energizing wokeness which will cause it to disappear.

Eric's solution doesn't seem to deal with the above motivational roots at all: he wants to suppress wokeness at the governmental and legal level, e.g. by regulating universities, distributing funds based on compliance to none-wokeness standards, etc.

Probably both of these solutions should be pursued. However, one should note that, first, none of these two solutions explicitly addresses the problems of the black population. Second, though Nathan addresses the motivational component 'guilt', neither of the authors deals with the other motivational component: empathy/compassion. This motivation, together with the continually existing black problems / disparities will continue to be present and might provide fuel for future woke waves. Will the knowledge that these problems are caused by black genes (Nathan's solution) or the government measures to suppress wokeness (Eric's solution) be able to counteract wokeness' revival? I am not sure.

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