[ExI] Section 230 and Antitrust

[Omar Rahman]

> On 20 Jan 2021, at 16:09, extropy-chat-request at lists.extropy.org wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Could you explain the mechanism?
>> 
>> ### People stick together with their own relatives. On a larger scale,
> cohesive social structures emerge among people sharing culture, which
> usually comes from shared ancestry, which implies shared genes. Different
> social structures coalesce out of genetically different populations, so
> different social groups will differ in their language, culture and yes,
> also intelligence.

> Drawing map lines helps here but is not necessary.

Ok, so it’s not maps….    Damn, I was just about to gerrymander myself a map with all the sexy, smart, and rich people as a means of self improvement. (Which is the real purpose of gated communities actually.)

> It’s the reproductive isolation that matters, which is why the Parsees, the
> Brahmin jatis and the Ashkenazim are smarter than their surrounding
> populations.

So it’s not maps, but it IS RACISM, ok gotcha. (Even if you sugar coat it by saying some minorities are BETTER…well…it’s still racism.)

> We could argue whether such diversity is good, or bad, or just unavoidable,
> but the brute fact that the diversity of IQ exists should be just accepted.
> 
> Rafal

Diversity of <characteristic> exists between individuals, and diversity of <characteristic> exists between the average of one group and the average of another. What’s important is how you define the group and a racial definition is laughable.

Omar


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