Comments on: Stereotypes II

By: Lightning Round – 2014/09/03 | Free Northerner

Lightning Round – 2014/09/03 | Free Northerner — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 05:01:50 +0000

[…] The validity of sterotypes. […]

By: Shalmaneser

Shalmaneser — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:42:22 +0000

Relevant:
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jussim/unbearable%20accuracy%20of%20stereotypes.pdf

http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/tetlock/vita/philip%20tetlock/phil%20tetlock/1999-2000/2000%20the%20psychology%20of%20the%20unthinkable….pdf

http://philosophy.rutgers.edu/dmdocuments/Gendler%20(2011)%20On%20the%20Epistemic%20Costs%20of%20Implicit%20Bias%20May%202011%20Phil%20Studies.pdf

By: neovictorian23

neovictorian23 — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:46:02 +0000

Stereotypes are so nonexistent that my anti-stereotype prog relatives in the San Francisco Bay area drive 45 miles each way per day to their jobs so that their sons can go to “good schools.” And they’re really nice people, very “anti-racist.” Going back to Sailer, he’s written extensively on this; the coastal California real estate bubble is based on anti-racist progs making sure their kids don’t go to school with too many lower-IQ minorities.

I doubt there’s been another mass rationalization on this scale in human history.

By: Antisthenes

Antisthenes — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:31:51 +0000

“Stereotypes are for niggers.”

By: nobody

nobody — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:19:30 +0000

Steve Sailer just did a related post about the need for “political diversity” in social sciences

It’s been too taboo to study stereotypes since around 1976

http://www.unz.com/isteve/haidt-political-diversity-will-improve-social-psychological-science/

By: Aeroguy

Aeroguy — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:57:10 +0000

Progs are perfectly happy to use stereotypes. They even enjoy manufacturing stereotypes out of whole cloth. They’re just concerned about people using the “wrong” stereotypes. Some who self identify as prog do try to be genuinely principled, they’re victims of prog ideology. Progs are first and foremost about acquiring power, everything they do or say is just a means to that end. When you have enough brainpower backing you, consistency isn’t a requirement because it can be rationalized away (why do smart people believe dumb things, because they’re better at rationalizing).

Progressivism is an alliance between the power hungry and a virulent meme. However when it affects their interests either one will defect against the other. Thus their weakness is that they’re cannibals. This is why using trolls to set them against each other is so entertaining.

Branching from this, given rationalizations and virulent memes, practicing strict mental hygiene ought to be high on our concerns list (since we don’t have a natural mental immune system, except acquired mental infections defending their territory, we have to develop our own at the conscious level).

By: Burner

Burner — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:32:55 +0000

I am seeing potential t-shirt slogans in my head.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 14:00:44 +0000

“We had to destroy the mind in order to defend it (from evil thoughts).”

By: Nick B. Steves

Nick B. Steves — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:43:17 +0000

So the war on stereotypes is actual a war on intelligence itself.