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Fair enough. It is not just racism it is justified racism then. Chinese immigrants have proven they could assimilate and thrive all around the world. So are the other east Asians. So are the Indian upper classes, jews and whites. So if you have to choose immigrants - you choose from cultures with proven track record. If racism leads to better outcomes for my country - so be it.
If you need 1000000 workers today what would you choose - a million Koreans or a million Chechens?
A million Chechens, obviously, because Chechens are white and Koreans aren't.
Of course, this is a nonsense scenario for multiple reasons, but most prominently: we don't have to issue visas based on such crude measures as race or even nationality. We can and do discriminate amongst applications based on the qualities of individual applicants.
...and there in you demonstrate that the "uncharitable strawman" of HBD is not a strawman at all.
I'm not sure anything I say should be taken as indicative of HBD positions, since I am being facetious.
again, six or a half dozen regardless.
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He was making an uncharitable strawman in order to take the piss out of HBDers, and you're saying it's evidence that it's not an uncharitable strawman?
I'm saying that the "uncharitable strawman" is not a "strawman" at all, but rather the standard/popular take.
The uncharitable strawman version of HBD (i.e. that it's just straightforward racism) is a reasonably accurate description, yes, but I'm not sure how directly relevant that is?
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I know, but you cannot say his post proved that, because he was taking the piss.
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...Pretty sure @Skibboleth is being sarcastic, not speaking plainly.
Six or a half dozen regardless.
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Arghhhh!!! The entire point is that it's not justified. If I needed to choose 1000000 workers I wouldn't arbitrarily straitjacket myself into needing all of then be from the same country/race---I would just pick the million best from everywhere the best way I can. There are so many other much more useful ways to distinguish people from each other. I am completely dumbfounded why this point is so hard for people to grasp.
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