The march to Nazism takes another step

  • selokichtli@lemmy.ml
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    Does this guy think IQ is heritable? Hundreds of genes contribute to intelligence, so it’s a genetic lottery. They certainly won’t create conditions that stimulate intelligence in the people they govern. I suppose it’s all mumbo jumbo to decimate black and brown people and get rid of unsettling white people.

    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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      The goal is to set a precedent on an intangible factor than can be used to detain a person and invade their bodily right.

      IQ isn’t a real thing. Yes, there are IQ tests, and there is a correlation between IQ and intelligence, but for the most part, they want to be able to say “GEOTUS is smart, if you disagree with him then you are dumb, if you are dumb, then we will detain and sterilize you, and if you resist, we will execute you in the street.”

    • plyth@feddit.org
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      A 2004 meta-analysis of reports in Current Directions in Psychological Science gave an overall estimate of around 0.85 for 18-year-olds and older.[16] The general figure for heritability of IQ is about 0.5 across multiple studies in varying populations.[17]

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ

      But for sure this is about black, brown and unsettling white people.