I assume it is just the genetics/iq fanboying which leads them to think like this, not some weird antisemitic dogwhistle, not that philosemitism isn’t also a form of antisemitism via othering.
To be clear that is exactly why I find the analogy suspect lol, and at the same a tic of this particular milieu so I don’t believe it’s deliberate. Just god lesswrongers sure are weird about stuff.
Ashkenazi IQ (and asian SAT scores) absolutely are the “but I have a black friend!” of race science, but further mythologizing Yud and Scoot on those grounds also happens.
I assume it is just the genetics/iq fanboying which leads them to think like this, not some weird antisemitic dogwhistle, not that philosemitism isn’t also a form of antisemitism via othering.
yeah remember that it’s a LW tenet that Ashkenazi Jews are of unusually high IQ. Coincidentally a group containing both Eliezer and Scoot
their ancestors were optimized in the shtetl
To be clear that is exactly why I find the analogy suspect lol, and at the same a tic of this particular milieu so I don’t believe it’s deliberate. Just god lesswrongers sure are weird about stuff.
Ashkenazi IQ (and asian SAT scores) absolutely are the “but I have a black friend!” of race science, but further mythologizing Yud and Scoot on those grounds also happens.