american baptists are still around.

I was deliberately using (very) mild hyperbole, which should be obvious. I am perfectly aware that in a country of 300 million people there are still a few liberal Baptist congregations around. But they're very thin on the ground, not only compared to Evangelicals, but to the more hierarchical Mainline.

For example, the American Baptists are a denomination of 1 million in a country of 300 million, which makes them about 0.3% of the population. Not only that, the official stance of the overall denomination is still that homosexuality is morally wrong, which indicates the majority of those are still conservatives, though, unlike the SBC, they allow congregations that dissent.

The battle in the SBC was not between liberals and conservatives, rather between moderate conservatives and really hard core fundamentalists. It's analogous to a fight between Pope Francis and Pope Benedict.

I'm not sure that I agree with Haidt's central thesis that the difference between Left, Right, and Libertarian is captured by the degree to which various moral foundations are activated. Rather, it seems to me that these foundations are used in different ways by different moral systems. In the context of this post, I bring up the book only to, perhaps, put religion in its place as only one type of morality, and morality in its place as the substrate of groupishness.

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I once took a look at the counties in the Dakotas and Minnesota that voted R or D in recent presidential elections. Rural counties that went D were overwhelmingly either heavily Native/Indian or heavily Norwegian. The counties that voted R tended to be more German. Diverse urban counties in Minnesota (Twin Cities, but also places like Duluth) also tend to go D. Swedishness didn't have much impact.

Upshot: Scandinavians are often liberal even in rural areas.

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this comment was kind of dumb. stop being dumb, it annoys me.
 

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Probably the satem shift occurred around the Sintashta times, and their language greatly influenced (but didn't totally replace) local Indo-European languages in a few locations. Some of those influenced groups later had great success and expanded widely (the Balto-Slavic and Indo-Iranians).

As for the Tarim Basin mummy DNA and the Tocharian language... there is basically zero real evidence linking the two, other than location (but not time). I would be very skeptical about connecting them without more data. This area was a hot spot for turnover.

That's certainly what I learned about the centum/satem distinction. Since the *k,*g,*gh series is original in Proto-Indo-European, languages that retain those sounds only necessarily share a PIE ancestor, not necessarily a more recent one. It's only the satem languages that can be said to be an identifiable subgroup, i.e. Indo-Iranians may have something special in common with Balto-Slavs, but Tocharians don't have anything special in common with Italo-Celts.

Perhaps my opinion is being too heavily influenced by the current political scene.

I see that I was not at all clear with my 35-40%. I was talking about a "politically estranged" white bloc, not whites as a whole.

Some black people settled in Washington Territory for exactly that reason. Centralia, Washington (about halfway between Tacoma and Portland) was founded by a black man named George Washington who had come west on the Oregon Trail but could not own land in the Oregon Territory. I have also read that the KKK was particularly strong in Oregon during the 1920s.

Right, some of eastern Oregon has a Southern feel to it. The ranching country in particular. But as I recall it's very sparsely populated. One of the curious things about the Pacific NW is that despite its remote location it was directly influenced by British before Americans settled there in large numbers. This, I guess, is why you find the large percentage of people claiming English ancestry in the part of Washington immediately south of Vancouver Island. There are mixed English and Spanish names all up and down Puget Sound. I live near Mt. Baker (one of Captain Vancouver's shipmates), which is clearly visible from the San Juan Islands, for example. A little further north and you have mixed English and Russian names.

But in Seattle proper, where I grew up, the early Republican influence is obvious. There's Union and Republican streets, McLellan street (Scots Irish Union general BTW), Fremont Ave. and the entire neighborhood of Fremont, Lake Union, Union Bay, Lincoln Park and certainly some others I don't even know about. Also, the Union Civil War veterans' plot in Lakeview Cemetery is very impressive. A Confederates' plot exists as well, but it is very humble - even a little sad - in comparison.

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additionally, there is the fact that many anti-slavery people were as anti-black, or more so, than people that accepted the institution. e.g., my home state of oregon was founded explicitly as a non-slave white state.
 

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cotton gin + rise of a universalist white consciousness in the south (and to some extent the whole USA) during age of jackson.

Two things that the nouveau riche slave owners of the cotton revolution took care of immediately was to identify themselves as a planter as opposed to yeoman farmer and they imported educated New Englanders who lived in the household and taught the children, male and female.

While Arkansas hardly had any public schools, Michigan had hundreds.

The Cavaliers and Bourbons had no use for educated cotton pickers and saw-mill hands, but the Scotch-Irish disregarded, and to some extent still do, the benefits of public education to a larger society. This is greatly distorted by the racial divide. Can the lack of support for public education be separated on the bases of Bourbon hostility, traditional Scotch-Irish individualism and historical racial animosity?

why are you telling me this? i’ve blogged this.
 

no, not picts technically. probably the northern britons who were part of the kingdom of rheged and later became the rump of strathclyde (cumbria obviously cognate to cymru). the pictish lands were further north, and generally those areas never under roman domination.
 

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Thanks for the link to the paper. I will have to complete it later, it looks very interesting. I find it quite telling that interspersed with scholarly writing there are all these little moral messages. Many, many inoculations against charges of racial insensitivity. It appears that one cannot just write history anymore; you have project everything back and keep repeating, “We don’t think like that anymore.”

I just didn’t understand the point about Carolina planters, some few that came from Barbados, but the original ones that built the rice and indigo and Sea Island cotton plantations were mostly English.

Alexandre Pétion of Haiti gave Simon Bolivar a substantial assist with men and material at a crucial and trying time in Bolivar’s struggle.

Carolina planters were in from the gitgo. I don't known of any migration impact from the Haiti rebellion. Haiti increased the fear of slave rebellion which was already at fever pitch.

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The Cavalier culture is not *currently* capturing the national imagination, because it has been in decline for decades, as Woodard pointed out in his book. It was once a very important component of the national culture--Southerners used to be proud to point out that national heroes like Washington and Jefferson were slaveholding planters, whereas today those facts are unpleasant and swept under the rug.

However, there is a third Southern subculture that Fischer does not discuss in Albion's Seed, namely the Deep South (probably because a) the Carolina planters came from elsewhere in the New World, not a region of Britain; and b) because he presumably wanted to keep the book under a thousand pages). Woodard does talk about them, however, and they do still loom large in the national imagination, viz. Dylan Roof.

The current Mormon alliance is mainly with the Scots-Irish and the Deep South, as Tidewater is disappearing.

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3) *albion’s seed* does not say that scots-irish = the south.

The thing is, this post does. When you say,

The original Mormons were by and large Yankees, and their migration west took them into the lands of the Scots-Irish, who descended upon them like wolves to the slaughter, as was often the case when Yankees faced Scots-Irish in an unorganized fashion.

it sure makes it seem as 1830s Missouri was majority Scotch Irish when it wasn't even close. If by "Scotch-Irish" you mean borderers, then you can say that. But even if you're being as generous to Fischer as possible borderers never outnumbered regular English folk in the South. If you add up the Scotch Irish+ all the Scots +25% percent (the number Fischer chose) of the English in Purvis that non-Borderer English remain the dominant ethnicity in every state but South Carolina and Tennessee, where they're about even.

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I'm half Scots Irish, and none of my Scots Irish ancestry comes from south of Pennsylvania/Ohio, while some comes from as far north as New Hampshire and Vermont (New Englanders imported them to act as a buffer against the Indians). The reason you don't see many Southerners calling themselves "English" is because most of them would choose "American" or "Southern" as their ethnicity. But in fact the South is one of the most English parts of the country, both culturally and in terms of ancestry. They love tea, gardens, hunting with hounds, riding and literature. Names like Adams, Smith, Johnson and the like are more common there than in the rest of the country.

As for the Scots Irish, after they pushed West past the Appalachians (which legions of them did in the early 19th century), most of them seem to have lost their Scots Irishness and settled into a comfortable "American" identity. In my family, for example, none of them even stayed with the Presbyterian Church. You'd never even guess they were Scots Irish unless you knew a lot about surnames. They were absorbed seamlessly into American institutions, the military being one of the most important, and when they emerged they were nothing like the caricature of the Scots Irish hillbilly. However, arguably their overrepresentation in the military does suggest a certain retention of their ancient martial tradition. My pet theory is that the Scots Irish are actually descended from the north Brythonic speaking people, AKA the Picts. Many of their surnames, such as Knox, Wallace and Abercrombie strongly suggest this to be the case.

Lots of Mormons call themselves English because so many working class English were recruited by the early Mormon church in the 19th century, often straight out of the slums. These people never had the opportunity to assimilate into an American identity.

BTW, in Ireland people still use the word "crack" (whence "cracker" derives) to describe a certain atmosphere of lighthearted banter and fellowship. They spell it "craic," and I've seen pubs that advertised themselves as having "good craic," which struck me as pretty funny. Americans still occasionally use the archaic crack in expressions such as "not all it's cracked up to be" or "wisecrack."

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i would say defense. but depends on how you define defense. e.g., i would count finding and beating up the kid who called me a ‘sand nigger’ in gym class defense. but it might seem offensive since i waited until after school ended so as not to be disruptive (i just made sure to tail him after the last period).
 

Replies: @Razib Khan

You can kickstart brain cancer by getting a hard knock on the head.

Replies: @iffen

plenty.
 

Replies: @Razib Khan

Cool. Thanks. Is that open access or pricey?

"i look young for my age, and act young for my age too fwiw."

This can suck when you're in your late 20s or in your 30s and trying to get people to take you seriously, but it rocks when you get to your 50s and beyond.

Replies: @Twinkie

Well, if it makes you feel any better, I wouldn't mind if you spent most of your life writing stuff on the internet, on the grounds that you're one of few people actually good at it. I apologize if I'm just wishing out loud for something you have no interest in.

Replies: @Razib Khan, @theo the kraut, @Robert Ford

Thanks!

I don’t see why- there have been many researchers through that region even since the genocides took place. Forensic work alone would provide a pile of interesting DNA results.

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Fine. At least you seem to identify my remarks with common sense. That's getting off lightly with Razib Khan.

What do you mean that "statistics" protects against "post-modernism"?

I suspect the basis of philosophical problems stems largely from attempting to talk about a world of contrasts with a language of dualism. [Besides appeals to transcendence to get around the problem of self-reference, of course. This, in turn, provokes a skepticism, and the whole thing goes round and round in circles.]

Summary:

Most conventional philosophical accounts offered by naturalists/empiricists fail, because they remain rooted in Cartesian assumptions (subjective/objective split, natural/supernatural split, etc.) while rejecting the Cartesian mind, which is the transcendent Archimedean point which holds Cartesianism together. In other words, they try to do "Descartes" without the Cartesian mind, without recognizing the logical dependency of the entire system on the mind.

The naturalists seem to be the enemies of the "Post-Modernists", but I find to the extent the "Post-Moderns" are rooted in historicism and language, they generally have more insights, even if they are wrong. Hume, Hamann, Herder--there is the thread.

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Not sure what you mean by "post-modernism" without further elaboration (Foucault is not Derrida is not Fish, etc.).

However, there is empirical evidence that the metaphors we use to describe social phenomenon impact attitudes. For example, if one uses the metaphor of a disease or cancer to describe a social phenomenon, it elicits a political response different from the metaphor of a rainbow. As much as the empirical world is partially independent of our conceptions, it is in other ways inexorably shaded by our conceptions. Seen from one dimension, politics is an existential struggle between rival metaphors. [Since politics is contained within the space we call natural, then metaphor must be seen as a much a feature of the natural order as the concept of species.]

I am basically Platonic--the world of sensation can only be cognized through linguistic categories--and concepts such as truth or falsehood ultimately rest on social conventions. [What rests on convention can be known with complete certainty.] That being said, the conventions exist to allow for the possibility of open questions, e.g. questions subject to empirical falsification. The metaphor would be something like Chess--the point of the closed and fixed rules of Chess is to allow an open-ended process to take place, namely play. However, just as there could be no Chess without an arbitrary sets of conventions, there could be no empirical science without a set of conventions, institutions, and norms, all of which is mostly historically arbitrary. So the primacy of the word is irrefutable, and only through the word can any system like empirical science--and empirical description--come into being (ergo why humans have science and monkeys do not even though we presumably share the same empirical world governed by the same empirical regularities).

As far as the "rationalist" and "objective reality" crowd, Descartes specifically excluded the mind from the net of scientific reification. Because the framework which reifies the other in this sense transcends the other, the mental categories by which the physical world is reified must transcend the physical world, or you get self-reference. [The map can't be at the same time the territory.] But the mind can't be excluded, ergo any attempt to describe the totality will blow up in some version of the liars paradox or Godel's Incompleteness theorem--which is why sophisticated people embrace the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Ergo, the world transcends any system of reification, and therefore we cannot arrive at some ultimate explanation of the world, so we must embrace that the most fundamental truths could only be revealed through something like unknowing.

Replies: @Razib Khan

Been waiting for the right moment to confirm that:)

Razib,

I'm afraid I don't have any recommendations for you there; I'm more conversant with the Frankfurt School (and even there, more Adorno & Habermas than, say, Marcuse) than the current brand of critical theory. I share blankmisgiving's intuition in #40—a generally spot-on comment, imo—that Butler is probably a promising place to look if you're looking for major influences on the ideological arm of the social-justice left; I believe Gender Trouble is the, ahem, locus classicus.

"any good primer for modern critical theory?"

Here's a recommendation and review from the blog Lorenzo Thinking Out Loud:

http://lorenzo-thinkingoutaloud.blogspot.com/2009/02/explaining-postmodernism.html

I read the book on the strength of this review and am glad I did. It clarified a lot for me, particularly how and why a big part of the academic Left ("critical theory") has shifted against science, reason, and empiricism.

i doubt they will fiddle with it too much, because you can get the raw data and check.
 

if you say something like this, name them. otherwise, you’re a gasbag.
 

Replies: @Razib Khan

Do young critical race theorists still read Frantz Fanon? It's been many years, but I remember The Wretched of the Earth as the best of the post-colonialist works I was forced to read in college.

Replies: @syonredux

Thanks for the response. For those not as conversant with the literature (like me) here is a link to the Risch et al. paper:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC139378/

And the relevant excerpt:

In conjunction with Table ​Table2,2, we can estimate that about 120 unselected SNPs or 20 highly selected SNPs can distinguish group CA from NA, AA from AS and AA from NA. A few hundred random SNPs are required to separate CA from AA, CA from AS and AS from NA, or about 40 highly selected loci. STRP loci are more powerful and have higher effective δ values because they have multiple alleles. Table ​Table33 reveals that fewer than 100 random STRPs, or about 30 highly selected loci, can distinguish the major racial groups. As expected, differentiating Caucasians and Hispanic Americans, who are admixed but mostly of Caucasian ancestry, is more difficult and requires a few hundred random STRPs or about 50 highly selected loci. These results also indicate that many hundreds of markers or more would be required to accurately differentiate more closely related groups, for example populations within the same racial category.
 

if you are talking intercontinental scale differences then risch et al. showed in the early 2000s than 30 well chosen markers are sufficient. if you have a very specific question, such as “is the person 100% european or 100% african”, then slc24a5 itself could answer that (100% in one variant in europeans, and 99% in africans in the other, except north and northeast africans).
 

Any idea what you would see if you subsetted to the 100 loci with the largest weightings in the 100k loci PC1 and PC2? How about if you looked at the structure using the 100k loci with those 100 removed? In other words, is the issue the sheer number of loci or just finding the loci which vary systematically across the populations?

P.S. The ~1.5% variance explained for the 100 loci PC1 and PC2 implies to me that none of the loci selected matter much for evaluating the structure. Would you agree with that?

Replies: @Razib Khan

2) thinking of rereading the dune books. they dropped in quality in my recollection, though *god emperor* seemed to bring it back a little.
 

yeah, but did you know this? http://imgur.com/B5O8WD5

1) the bible is such an uneven book. i’ve read genesis dozens of times. in contrast, leviticus a lot less.
 

2) thinking of rereading the dune books. they dropped in quality in my recollection, though *god emperor* seemed to bring it back a little.
 

Leviticus is a dry legal text. However, interpreted by an insightful scholar, it has a lot of anthropological interest. Mary Douglas' Purity and Danger is best on the purity codes, while James B. Jordan and Peter Leithart are good on the temple stuff.

But, yeah, you might want to mostly stick with the secondary lit here.

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Good summary of Douglas.

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do remember though that the shang were legendary until they weren’t. i think it is likely that xia existed in some form, even if we can never confirm it….
 

A strong case can be made for an ancient civilization that used coastal waters of Indian Ocean, from Red See all the way to Malaysia and probably even North-east Africa. It probably existed 5-8,000 years ago and among other things invented: long distance trade with ships, metals and their usage from bronze to gold, our original symbolic and theological concepts of 'invisible' god, time measurement, calendar, abstract thought, etc... There is strong linguistic evidence for this in ancient Sumerian, Elamite, even Egyptian and Hebrew.

The current languages that most approximate this ancient source civilization are Dravidian languages. I also think Phoenicians and their trading empire is a more western outgrowth of this original Indian Ocean basin based trading civilization (and so are probably Hebrews and their 'mono-theism', they traced themselves consciously to Elam and east based on mythical Abraham's genealogy).

It will be hard to find conclusive genetic evidence for this proto-civilization because its male population was displaced by violence and by simple exhaustion, when new groups emerged and over-run these ancient civilizations in third millenium BC and later (Aryans, Semites,...). But our abstract thought is still very much formed by this original civilization - our words, concepts, theology, calendar, etc... And it was based around Indian Ocean. All we have to do is look deep into our preserved history, myths and languages.

In antiquity Athens, Carthage, then in medieval Venice, Genoa. I agree with the comment above that the Med's geography was distinctive.

Replies: @Razib Khan

Right, there are some. Considering that the time frame is more than a millennium, not all that many though.

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Hey Razib,

To me, the immediate thing that pops into mind is that you just don't have such a vast array of islands in the Mediterranean as in the South Eastern region of Asia; rather you have mostly contiguous land masses projecting out into the water with a large shoreline (islands like Cypress, etc. excepted). Power projection must have cost far more in resources than say being able to fight your way down with a land-based army through the Sinai to capture Alexandria or the like. Unless I'm wrong, formidable navies always seem to be more difficult to maintain - this saved the Japanese from the Mongols.

Peace.

Replies: @Twinkie

but civilization would go and we’d probably be hunter-gatherers.

That would give us peasants the chance to make a direct comparison and we could then decide if we wanted to help bring back complex societies or not.

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Is there any precedent for a 99.99% death rate form any single disease cause within a limited time frame. I.e., not including the fact that in the long run the mortality rate is 100% and areas affected by sudden events of great violence.

The Black Death is usually thought to have caused a mortality in 14th century Europe of about 67%.

Native American populations declined dramatically between end of the 15th and the later dates when European type governments began to conduct counts, but there multiple epidemics, and lots of enemy action that destroyed or degraded native institutions. Further, the exact scale of the catastrophe is truly obscure. It might have been on the scale of the Black Death, but, it might have been as much as 95%. Read the discussion in Apendix I to "Conquest: Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico" by Hugh Thomas
https://www.amazon.com/Conquest-Cortes-Montezuma-Fall-Mexico/dp/0671511041
The historiography is head spinning.

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I imagine Donald Sterling had some really tough months in 2014 when he for some weeks was the favorite public villain, because of some remarks in a private phone call. It would be really interesting to know in which way his life changed after that, whether there are many things he can´t do now which he did before. At least he seems still to be a billionaire.

Replies: @Ivy

they’re frank in their private salons. also, class identity and money can insulate you from a lot of the crap you are talking about. look at all the sexual harassment cases in academia. senior profs can get away with rape in some cases, but if you are a grad student and an accusation is made because you emailed someone inappropriately, you’re fucked. it’s about power. the rules are different if you are part of the elite.
 

Replies: @Ivy

Hey Razib,

the rules are different if you are part of the elite.
 

Zanj rebellion for those who want a really old-school example.

Otherwise...looking forward to the return of guilds! The tend towards the Dune universe may happen in my lifetime!

On a more serious note, what you say about the dismantling of institutional learning is interesting. I know in Islamic scholarship, it is often the ones who are off-the-grid, so to speak, that have the highest credibility. Cases in point; the late Shaykh Ramadan Bouti (ra) of Syria who was the de-facto Mufti of the Levant without ever having held that title. Another, the great Mauritanian sage, Murabit al-Hajj (db) who teaches to this day (at around 111+ years - nobody knows his real age - he made Hajj on foot from West Africa when the Ottomans were still in charge) who is a breathing university and could potentially rival all the Maliki ulema in Qarawiyyin by himself - and lives out here:
http://malikifiqhqa.com/uncategorized/the-desert-university-the-school-of-al-murabit-al-hajj/

You don't need an official logo or letterhead to have your knowledge recognized - people searching for the truth in any field will know it for what it is...eventually ;)

Peace.

It seems like academia is a very broad church. My experience of grad school was an identity politics free environment. This was an upper middling university in the UK Midlands doing mathematics. Profs engaging in sexual impropriety was unthinkable as they generally wanted nothing to do with anyone outside of their immediate family. Profs were mainly emigree Russians, Germans, Chinese and a few English. Cohort was about 50% Chinese, a lot of Nigerian Igbos (they really really dislike Islam) and the rest made up of assorted Europeans and a few middle easterners, not many Anglos. Towards the end, everyone was made to attend unconscious bias talks though.

Ok, thanks for the explanation. So basically it will be identity politics for the masses while a plutocratic overclass calls the shots, and only a few enlightened ones pursue true knowledge.
Sounds depressing, but unfortunately quite likely.

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weren’t been able to coalesce into the international proletariat, and they won’t today

The bitterest fruit of all time.

"my goal is try to get embedded in that class."

I find this a confusing goal if you are heterodox in your thinking. The global, Western-led upper class is often the most aggressive in pushing PC orthodoxy onto the "ignorant rubes." What makes you think they'd spare you if you went out of line, even if you were influential enough to be one of them?

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Any opinion on the outlook for ethno-religions among the elites and among the non elite humans ?

"...there is going to be solidarity among the global overclass, just like the aristocracies of old. money and connections mean freedom. my goal is try to get embedded in that class."

If you actually meant that, you wouldn't have published it, for all to see.

No. Your goal is to tell truth and shame the devil.

I see, thanks.

Could you elaborate on that? What kind of corporate units?

Replies: @Razib Khan

My thought is that many (maybe even most) people do in fact have some decency, conscience and genuine love of truth. It is easy to be trapped within a ridiculously false framework if that is the dominant mode of thought and nobody is saying otherwise (see someone like Peter Abelard, clearly a lover of truth and knowledge, blessed with a high IQ and the motivation and discipline to study and write, yet for all his originality and intelligence, what comes out is still Catholic Christian theology), but it is impossible to imagine a future where all this postcolonial crap is as overwhelmingly dominant and unchallenged as Catholicism was in 12th century Europe. Even within academia, it is by no means the only story out there. It is not society that will entirely succumb to this crap, it is small islands of nonsense within society.
On the other hand, the damage will not be trivial. A critical mass of such memes exists and they will no doubt circulate well beyond the swamps of critical studies and postmodern nonsense generators in liberal academia. Shit happens. But shit may not prevail.
Or at least, I hope that is the case.

I associate freedom of thought with a liberal democracy.

Very reluctantly I am coming to understand that in the modern world it is just too heavy of a lift for liberal democracy to provide us the way “forward.” To the extent that freedom of thought and conscience are interdependent with the political system it does seem like both are in failure mode.

Thanks for the pep talk. :)

Replies: @Razib Khan

for every alice dreger there are 1,000 who support her. but they’ll stand aside while the 100 tear her to shreds...

That sounds a lot like Taleb in his, "The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dominance of the Stubborn Minority."

http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/minority.pdf

it already is partly. some of my geneticist friends are appalled that i speak openly about some things. some of them are admiring of my boldness. none of them will speak in public though, whatever they may say in private
 

Replies: @iffen

2) the post-modernists are right to a first approximation, everything is power. so “we” have to capture and crush; it’s only victory or defeat. the odds are irrelevant. i put we in quotes because it doesn’t matter who you are, the game is on, whether you think you are a player or not.
 

The countervailing point is that the rise of the Internet enables anonymity, and this anonymity makes the exposure of truth far easier than in the past.

I'd say that this has already proved to be true on many of the most forbidden subjects, such as the links between race and socially important traits.

Razib is unfortunately all too correct about the social value of Truth. And he has experienced this more concretely than most of us. Pilate bellowed "What is truth?" And shortly thereafter Razib was no longer a NYT writer, a great loss to a wider audience of science enthusiasts curious about genetics.
This power dynamic is why so many of us have to comment anonymously. Real consequences are at stake for truth speakers.

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Hong is rather typical for a South Korean.
But I could see 3 anomalies.

1. She is the only Korean sample whose "Chinese" is greater than "Japanese" even though by a very slight margin.
Most South Koreans have >2 ratio in favor of "Japanese".

2. Only one with a non-zero SE Asian even though it is only 0.1 percent. All 40 Koreans(I checked up to about 15 and then got bored) I have access to have 0 there. But this could be due to the design of the new test.

3. Only one with non-zero Oceanian. But this again could be due to the new test.

About 70 percent of Koreans have <1 but non-zero "European" component but Hong had none. This again could be due to the design of the new test.

I have seen a Chinese from Northwest who had a fairly substantial amount of "European", like 5 percent. I also saw a Chinese with a "Korean" component.But most Chinese had nearly 100 percent of themselves with occasionally substantial SE Asian.

Chinese components among Koreans increase dramatically as you move from "conservative" to "speculative". This makes sense since Chinese and Koreans share prehistoric common ancestry but have been isolated from each other for a long time but the migration from Korea to Japan happened at the edge of historic times thus longer shared segments.

P.S. The chromosome graph does not show actual shared segments. For instance a long Chinese segment actually is made up of many smaller segments that happened to be assigned to "Chinese". Apparently they pull up every Chinese segment into one of the homologous pair and the gap between those segments is painted as "Chinese". I think this is how a full blooded Korean gets an entire chromosome assigned to Chinese or Japanese.

In my experience the Chinese cline is often incorporated into PC1 or PC2 already, even when there's something extreme like Ainu included.

http://www.nature.com/jhg/journal/v60/n10/fig_tab/jhg201579f1.html#figure-title

But perhaps one of the less significant dimensions can repeat the cline without making Koreans intermediate between China and Japan.