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One very interesting issue of Pinker’s that I’ve read about is “The Myth of Pure Evil.”
That "argument" is ridiculous. Why focus on it? Because jewz have an average IQ of 115 and hold 25% of Nobel prizes in physics while making up 0.2% of the population. Because blacks have an average IQ of 85 and are doing worse than any other race. Because northeast Asians have an average of 105 and are outperforming whites in school.
The biggest problem with everything he is saying is that the generalization of what humans are is something you'd expect if humans are on average, intelligent. "faculty of self control, empathy, problem solving, moral norms". These are things usually only people of a certain intelligence level can comprehend and understand. I, imo, think that USA average IQ of 98 is very low. Even the top country of 108 average IQ is low. Now, IQ is not a very good foundation to build this idea on. But, it is very true that humans do not, sometimes cannot, and sometimes will not do any of these "common" humanistic traits that Mr. Pinker has talked about. Especially when majority of the world is behind in faculties itself.
First he says: you can program people the way you want and everyone is a blank slate when they are born. Then he says sexes are not the same. I think that's a contradiction. I think men and women are programmed to be "male" or "female" and then ofcourse it follows that they "are" different in "subtle" ways. If everyone is programmed to think a certain way then he himself is programmed to think men and women are different because of his background and upbringing. For me men and women are the same, stereotypes like "strong" and "soft" or "masculine" and "feminin" traits are just ways that human kind has used to seperate the genders (and also of course to create a male-dominated society).
1/4th are the liars, not 3/4ths, you messed that 'murderous thought' joke up Steve.
Gender and race cannot be divided from humanity.
Did anybody see Hoppe's takedown of Pinker? It was so tasty
27:55 GOD BLESS THE EXECS AT FOX NEWS!!!
Cowards! Really!
21:55 I’ve heard a lot of right wing people make this argument my whole life. But it will get you labeled as something awful today.
Typical ignorant Canadian Jew who wants to push diversity and feminism on everyone because he sees nothing wrong with it. If he's so good at science, he should just stick to that.
All of this content is out dated by 8 years…
We joke that wherever you find two of us Jews, you'll find three opinions. : )
19:35 Why the focus on IQ? Because when you, sciences an society denies and ignores the relevance of IQ, someone who wants to be heard on the subject, needs to shout louder. Your fear causes denying, which results in more of what you fear.
Those who say they are for free speech are often not completely truthful. They are the ones who shout down invited speakers on campuses, especially those of the conservative guests. The students at Harvard can testify.
The part of this video that is most interesting to me, because it is the question I have been asking myself is, "so how do these facts matter?" I've been back and forth on how far left I lean (I dont think I've ever really been right of center), where I stand on feminism, what is the reality of the prevalence of racial discrimination and what should/could be done about it.
The thing that tends to make those conclusions so difficult is because people dont know what to do with the facts. Too many people assume an implication of a fact without considering how that implication was reached. I've realized several times that I got upset at a fact being presented because I assumed it must be followed by "therefor… [something I feel is morally corrupt]." There is no reason to start with those assumptions, and no reason to assume someone who is presenting a fact is attaching that implication to it. We might not have a very good idea, at all, what the facts about sex differences or other biological differences imply about what we should do and what conclusions we should draw beyond the facts themselves.
Great discussion. I admire Steven Pinker after watching this video.
The stuff he talks about circa minute 20 is very much how I feel about this: we should deemphasize and deprioritize concepts that divide us and try to look at people more as individuals.
IQ does not matter, explain that to a dumb person who can't get work or a smart person like Aron Swartz who ended up a suicide.
Big logical fallacy when he said that "we should downplay racial questions because class and income is more important". Without research, how would you know?