• Rottcodd@lemmy.world
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    People are almost more susceptible to simpler charts with race and IQ than they are to the really complicated stuff

    Ironically enough, that’s because they’re stupid.

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    spreading misinformation about racial minorities’ intelligence and physiology to his audience of 176.3 million followers—a dynamic my colleague Garrison Hayes analyzes in his latest video for Mother Jones.

    Can we please pass a law that takes away his government contracts, toys, and celebrity and deport this mother fucker already?

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      Pass a law? Not when half of the legislative body is controlled by the GOP and benefits from Musk’s propaganda.

      People need to consistently fight to keep the far right out of power if they want unbiased media.

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        You just have to make the law use generalized terms and categories rather than his name.

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    Pretend scientist and child of apartheid pushes pretend race “science?” Shocking.

    By the way, the video in the article is worth watching even if you don’t read the article.

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    So I was very curious about where all this narrative stemmed from as I kept seeing far right posts comparing IQ and different races.

    Saw this video by Shawn (2 hour+ long) and he broke it down very well.

    Basically, it’s just bad studies where they test both segregated white schools and also black schools (which were under funded and had average lower income levels for parents), then use the result as the smoking gun.

    It essentially comes down to:

    Having a head start in life passes down the generation, so high income groups (and races over represented there) will always have a higher average IQ cause by the nature of IQ tests being just academic tests.