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Originally Posted by jjshabado
TheGodson made his claim that the left ignores science. I'd like to explore that.
I remember seeing a Youtube video on how the world views beauty from men and women's perspectives and there were a lot of people in the comment section that got offended because the video made some generalizations about the sexes.
There is a lot of this stuff that goes on. If I was to make the claim that men are more prone to risky behavior than women, I would get a lot of nasty replies that I am sexist and that women can engage in risky behavior as well. When I try to assure them that I am talking about on a statistical level they can get pretty hostile and say that it is simply not true when clearly it is.
Obviously everyone on the left isn't this way just like there aren't people on the right that reject evolution. However, this group is larger than I'd like it to be. I wish I could say it is just fringe left people, but that isn't always the case.
I've spoken to some people about transgenders and what not. They act like it is only a physical thing, but really, the psychology is very different. Especially biologically. A trans woman has to continually take hormonal medicine in order to keep herself from exhibiting manliness. People on the left make it seem like you can just up and change your gender and boom you're a woman. Nope, not really.
There was also talk of eliminating mens and womens Olympics and just making it joint gender which I think is very unfair to women who have trained their whole lives just to make it into the Olympics. Men are biologically more athletic and would make it very hard for women to ever win or even qualify. I don't know if this would be true for all sports, but I can for sure say this for running. Men are generally faster runners. There were also people trying to advocate for trans women entering the Olympics in women events. This is completely ridiculous because a trans woman still has the biological advantages that a man would have. If you tell some people this, they backlash with sexism cries and that we choose what we are by what we identify as.
There are even differences between races of people. Asians are much more likely to be lactose intolerant than whites. There is also speculation that Ethiopian and Kenyan runners could biologically be faster than other ethnicities. There have not been any conclusive results for this possibility, however people on the left still get mad at the speculation.
There are also studies that show on average, asians score higher on IQ tests than whites and that blacks score even lower than both groups. There are environmental circumstances that could take place for this reasoning and may not actually be genetic. People are very dismissive about it possibly having genetic factors. This is very taboo and people from the left and right don't like talking about it. For what it is worth, it probably isn't a good thing for this kind of thing entering mainstream talk, because we have enough stuff going around as it is.
Sometimes, I hear people joke about jews controlling the world and being very wealthy. Is it possible that Jewish people are just biologically more prone to being intelligent? Maybe, maybe not. People scoff at the idea and say it is racist. It could just be a cultural thing though, but I don't think dismissing the idea that it could be biological is a worthy assumption.
Going back to the thing about not talking about race solving racial problems, take a look in the poker world. I never hear commenters talking about Phil Ivey as being a "great black poker player" he's just a "great poker player". The poker world doesn't have problems with race, because we don't make it a big deal.
The bird analogy for needing the left and the right is actually a good one. The left values empathy very highly. The right values authority, loyalty, rules, and tradition. When you start going too far to either side things start getting a little crazy.