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That is American Eugenicists -> Fascists -> FDR -> American Progressives -> Modern Leftists. If I'll give you the last one for free, which still leaves four degrees of separation.
I will grant you that the early pro-choice movement likely did not consider every possible child equally valuable for society for reasons of genetics and race as well as environment. (Apart from the race aspect, I do not think they are totally wrong. "You exist because your daddy was too drunk to wear a condom correctly and your mum too optimistic to go for plan B, and because abortion is illegal" is not a great set of dice rolls for a new character. Giving the women choice is a non-evil (unless you are Christian) to counter the unfortunate selection effects of g-dependent birth control).
Okay, walk me through this.
The SJP are the ones in IQ denial, correct?
What exactly is IQ denial for you? The negation of HBD? The rejection of intelligence as a concept of colonizers? Accepting IQ, but denying any heritability (blank-slatism)?
I have to admit that 'a SJP who embraces HBD' does not invoke a particularly coherent image in my head, same as for 'a nihilist who finds Jesus' or 'a triangle without corners'.
Is the idea that they would embrace HBD and basically advocate for forced sterilization of low g people to raise population intelligence? Or that they would embrace white supremacism? Or that they would double down on their initial ideas about group differences, and try to form the world towards their own ideals, forcibly sterilizing smart Ashkenazim and stupid members of what they identify as low-g races to create an utopia where race is uncorelated with intelligence?
Given that forced sterilizations seem bad and any woke could be reading our conversation at this very moment, do you think it is safe to make them even aware of the fact that you consider them in IQ denial lest they cross your thin line and turn into monsters?
Or is it possible that you were simply signaling 'boo outgroup' by saying 'if $enemy realized ${thing they deny}, they would do ${evil action}'.
I wouldn't dare rely merely on the fallacy of inheritance. Rather I would say that most of the bigger ideas remain the same. The Modern Leftist vision for Banks, Tech, and Medicine, for example, isn't a socialist system, its a fascist system. Private actors ostensibly maintain ownership of the means of production, but their ability to make meaningful decisions that the regime disagrees with is practically zero (this has yet to happen with tech, but the Biden administration showed their hand and vision WRT that sector).
They also routinely deploy street militia to agitate and intimidate. A holdover. Still obsessed with race, just in a different way. Still obsessed with abortion and fertility control. And much more if we want to continue going down that way.
I will proceed as if this means "Social Justice Person(People?)" The correct notation I am aware of is SJW.
Any and all.
If you took the rest of the worldview, which says that abortion is great, the state should be involved with everyone's business all the time, the poor must be provided welfare and healthcare so they dont die in the street, and the state should spend vast amounts of money on education and childcare. You get to Eugenics very quickly if you don't have blank slatism. Its the only way to avoid human suffering and a permanent class of wards of the state. Sterilization of Low-g people is the low hanging fruit. Noticing that certain groups are different in average g is step 2. Sterilizing Ashkenazim may be a thing some places do out of tribal self preservation as the Nazis did. Who knows what exact type of derangement would emerge. I certainly didnt anticipate in 2015 that 10 years later the progressive shibboliths would be chicks with dicks playing high school track meets and Somali fraudsters shouldn't be deported, but here we are.
Forced sterilizations are only bad if you are Christian. If they are not they should advocate for them based on their principles. I think, currently laid bare they would be forced to openly advocate for the abortion of all white male children. Which would show them to the world as their true selves.
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