• @BigMuffin69
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    2 months ago

    my honest reacton:

    Edit: Judit Polgár for ref if anyone wants to learn about one of the greatest of all times. Her dad claimed he was doing a nature/nurture experiment in order to prove that anyone could be great if they were trained to master a skill from a young age, so taught his 3 daughters chess. Judit achieved the rank of number 8 in the world OVERALL and beat multiple WC including Kasparov over her career.

    idk its almost like if more girls were encouraged to play chess and felt welcome in the community these apparent skill differences might disappear

    • @Soyweiser
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      162 months ago

      Judit Polgár

      Sadly, I know where this goes, they will just point out she is Jewish and point to that. (I think SSC even did that).

      • @BigMuffin69
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        202 months ago

        Wishful thinking on my part to think their sexism/eugenics posting was based on ignorance instead of deliberately being massive piles of shit. Don’t let them know Iceland has the highest number of GMs/pop or else we’ll get a 10,000 page essay about how proximity to volcanoes gives + 20 IQ points.

        • @Soyweiser
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          122 months ago

          Careful, that might cause the humanbiodiversity posters to react and draw lines on maps! (Is that still a thing? I can’t recall seeing much HBD posters anymore, likely my own bubble of course).

      • @rationalistmormons
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        152 months ago

        Indeed. He did a post entirely about the family being Ashkenazi Jews. You’re never going to guess the premise of the post!

        • @Soyweiser
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          112 months ago

          Was it about how feminism is bad.

          No wait sorry, I’m misrepresenting his position.

          Was it about how only 30% of feminists are sane and the rest are insane?

          • @Evinceo
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            102 months ago

            Or at least not provably not insane.

            • @Soyweiser
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              82 months ago

              Yes thanks, didn’t want to dreg up the full quote.