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Michael Magoon's avatar

I largely agree with you. I actually recently published an article entitled Central Moral Dilemma of the Left that makes similar points. It is part of a longer series of articles on the Origins of the Woke:

https://frompovertytoprogress.substack.com/p/the-central-moral-dilemma-of-the

I also agree that we cannot overcome the eternal cycle of failed Leftist ideologies until we squarely confront the reality of human genetic diversity and how it makes the moral goal of Equality impossible.

Where I disagree with you is the necessity of focusing on race. The reality is that racial differences only account for a very small amount of the variance in outcomes between individuals within the same society. So even if all of society accepts that all black/white differences in outcome are determined by genetics, then it does not get us very far.

There is still a huge disparity in outcomes among whites and a huge disparity among blacks. So the Left will just shift the debate from racial differences in outcomes to disparate outcomes on other dimensions.

So rather than accepting that black/white differences in outcome are to a large extent determined by genetics, we need to accept that ALL differences in outcome between individuals within the same society are largely determined by genetics.

So I believe that you are not pushing your argument for human genetic diversity far enough because you focus too much on race.

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Blurtings and Blatherings's avatar

I am 54 and will be shocked if I live to see a mainstream human biodiversity movement in the U.S. Equalitarianism has been the state religion for longer than I've been alive, and has only gotten bolder, more aggressive, and more censorious in recent years. Of course, one might argue this is because it's (rightly) insecure: the data pouring in from genetic research makes a mockery of equalitarian precepts, which were already a priori unlikely if evolution is true. But religious convictions just don't disappear over night. The fight between the smarter liberal conformists and the dumber conservative dissidents has been like the fight between Catholics and Lutherans during the Protestant Reformation. They imagined themselves irreconcilable opposites, but both held on to Jesus; both in fact insisted they were the true party of Jesus. So it is with liberals and conservatives with equality. Equality is the American secular Jesus.

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