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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 5, 2022

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I recall some past cultural war posts from this year discussing Joe Rogan. In that vein, I came across a video (https://youtube.com/watch?v=RZFApIBGQAg), via Keith Woods, discussing Jewish overrepresentation among his political guests. By his estimation (and he's provided an accompanying excel sheet with the data) at least 42% of all political guests since the inception of the podcast have been Jewish.

Now, I'm not sure this means much of anything, but I thought an interesting question was posed: should we be concerned that one particular ethnic group is exercising this much influence over one of the most watched political podcasts in the world?

I'm not entirely convinced by his argument, but it feels like a question worth asking.

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The overrepresentation of jews is explained by HBD, I find the conspiratorial angles on boring.

Doesn't have to be conspirational. You may want less jews for the same reason you might want less white men on a board representing a diverse city, or more support programs for underprivileged black youth. Sometimes being from the same ethnic group results in similar experiences which may blind one to the experiences of other groups.

You may want less jews for the same reason you might want less white men on a board representing a diverse city, or more support programs for underprivileged black youth

i don't think many people here do. this is 'dems r real racists' / 'affirmative action for whites' tier

No, I clearly mentioned wanting less whites on a board how have you equated that with affirmative action for whites?

But do you have an argument against it "dems r real racist", or is simple mockery supposed to be enough?

Both democrats and republicans are deeply committed to anti-racism, the very notion of racism is something they deeply despise, they dream about all races being brothers in harmony and happiness, et cetera. Yet, intelligence is deeply connected with human experience and will, and those who are more intelligent should live and reproduce more than those who aren't. This doesn't align very well with race at all - but the impulse for the former is the same as that for hte latter.

This conversation sure took an unexpected turn!

Allow me to paraphrase to make sure I understand you: Deep down we all want racial harmony so neither side is racist. It's just that we all believe intelligent people should reproduce more, which may come into conflict with racial harmony, and may cause either side to appear racist?

I'm not sure how intelligence and reproduction enter the picture, or if the majority of people agree with the 'ought' you put there.

the first sentence is a description of most peoples' views. the second sentence is my claim, a rather right-wing claim, clearly one that very few people share. the two aren't at all related, and that wasn't clear in the comment.

I'm of the opinion that caring about ethnicity is something that can't die out soon enough. HBD is, to me, a tool to this end. For representing a diverse city I'll take the white guy who grew up in a the south side of Chicago over a black guy who grew up in the gold coast or north shore if diversity of experience is important but I refuse to believe melatonin content is a prerequisite for empathy and understanding. I'm well aware that a lot of people have a high IQ than me, the ethnic breakdown of that population is of no interest.

May I know your skin color as I consider it relevant to this discussion.

I am a large brown bear as my profile picture shows.

melatonin content

Melanin?

Literal wokeness, perhaps.

Hot take coming soon: "Wokeness caused by lack of melatonin"

Yes, but this is one of those things I'm consistently unable to remember. I'll leave it because it's funny.

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