Danish genetic researcher, Emil Kirkegaard, had a recent study asking 500 Americans what they considered to be the greatest taboos. Racial hereditary and IQ disparities were by far the greatest taboo, beating out incest, p-dophilia, gay germs, and anti-Semitism. Unfortunately, I am very pessimistic about hereditarian thinking being normalized anytime soon, and it is actually in decline.

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Emil Kirkegaard found that the results were generally consistent across all subgroups, including age, gender, race, and political orientation. Women did not have a dramatically different reaction to taboos, which counters stereotypes of women being more hyper-moralistic. However, the younger and self-identifying Democrats overall had a stronger reaction against taboos than Republicans, including to p-dophilia, which may come as a surprise (eg. libs are groomers meme). Whether Global Warming is manmade and Evolution, humans evolving from animals, were the only questions that Republicans had a stronger taboo reaction to. Regardless, this fits in with the trend where the Left is now more moralistic than the Right.

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Hereditarian thinking tends to appeal to the very intelligent while anti-Semitism seems to appeal disproportionately to those with lower IQs, though there are exceptions. This is because anti-Semitism offers a simplistic good vs evil narrative, as an explanation for social and political problems. For this reason, anti-Semitism is more likely to be normalized than HBD/hereditarianism. Anti-Semitism also fits in with existing racial dialectics, with Jews replacing Whites as the boogeyman. In contrast, hereditarianism would radically upend all existing paradigms. Ashkenizim are influential because they are the only North-Euro admixed group on earth who still have a pre-1965 ethnocentrism, not some sinister conspiratorial scheme.

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The general perception is that hereditarianism and especially support for eugenics is correlated with nerdiness, having a very low social status, or being anti-social. However, Sebastian Jensen’s analysis of Scott Alexander’s recent SSC survey found that “Eugenics supporters tend to have higher SAT scores, higher levels of self-reported attractiveness, lower BMIs, lower levels of religiosity, and lower levels of political extremism.” The survey also found that “Women do not like eugenics, but trans people and men are ok with them.”

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