Nathan Cofnas wrote a very long post called “Beating Woke with Facts and Logic” that claims that liberal elites care about facts and logic, which is wrong. Leon Voss, another alias for Joseph Bronski, points this out.
The primary disagreement is simple. Cofnas seems to view wokeness as primarily a software issue, a matter of faulty logic. To Voss and myself, wokeness is more of a hardware issue, i.e., genetically hardwired, with software issues downstream of that.
Cofnas defines the “logic of wokeness” as follows:
Wokism is based on the following logic:
Empirical premise (equality thesis): All races and sexes have on average the same innate distribution of socially relevant traits.
Moral premise (moral equality): All people have an equal right to achieve their potential.
Conclusion (wokism): The persistence of massive group disparities presents us with a moral emergency to fix the environment and bring about equality of outcome.
Voss writes:
Cofnas has no evidence for this rather facile model of wokeness. Quantitative research suggests that wokeness is an equilibrium resulting from modern dysgenic evolutionary pressures and information-spreading processes which are mostly downstream of the former. For example, wokeness is not 1 big idea, it’s lots of little ideas that evolve in a background of woke genetics, aka shrinking amygdalas, shrinking testicles, browning average skin tone, shrinking mean IQ, and so on.
Another way to look at this is that one must wonder how wokeists could become convinced of the self-evidently untrue idea that “All races and sexes have on average the same innate distribution of socially relevant traits.” The answer is that they’re biased towards accepting egalitarian claims while they’re biased towards rejecting truer, more inegalitarian claims. For example, if you show a teenaged wokeist Richard Lynn’s world IQ estimates who, theoretically, has nothing in his mind but basic reading and arithmetic skills, he’ll react defensively and will feel the need to look for rebuttals, because he’s genetically biased towards egalitarian thinking. If you show him a wrong “corrected” IQ map, he’ll be very happy and look no further. Then he’ll say to his friends “the experts say Lynn’s work is bogus!”. And that will be the conclusion that gets repeated on TV by the wokeists.
Voss is correct. Much of his work, under the name Joseph Bronski, has explored a genetic model of leftism caused by mutation load. As average paternal mutation load increases (due to advancing average paternal age and other dysgenic phenomena), genetic leftism dominates. Older men have damaged sperm caused by the inevitable accumulation of deleterious mutations. Please read this post to understand the further nuances of the theory.
The upshot is that one cannot convince a liberal elite of hereditarianism through facts and logic, as Cofnas claims. If you hold up a bell curve graph in their face, their brain will delete it and just show a grey fog. This is because leftism is primarily genetic. People will never accept inegalitarian claims if they are genetically hardwired not to. End of story.
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