More Pink Liberal Wank

[madscience]

My response to this wankIt's doubtful there was anything racist about Kanazawa's methodology or conclusions. I've read his blog before, and it's usually pretty legit. Unfortunately, we can't see for ourselves because Psychology Today was cowed by the wank mob and pulled the article

Comments

[misslynn]

Um. WHAT?

You are clearly not familiar with enough black women or Asian men if you think that one looks masculine and the other looks feminine.... *shakes head* I'm so baffled I don't even know where to start.

[madscience]

Perhaps, but that's not something anyone should feel entitled to judge me for. I didn't choose where I was born, and I'm not about to go out looking for token black and Asian friends just so I can get familiar with their appearance. IMO, that would be racist. Or at least totally lame.

Meanwhile, Dr. Kanazawa's observation was simply that there are a lot of people like me. Acknowledging this fact is the first step toward changing it. Attacking Kanazawa for his very important work is the opposite of helping.

[misslynn]

I didn't read the links you provided, I admit. I'm more focused on what you said about yourself.

Nor am I calling you racist, but you can expose yourself to more diverse surroundings and people without "going out looking for token friends."

[madscience]

We live in a racially segregated culture, and I live in a very white state. I'm not going to encounter many non-white people unless I intentionally seek them out.

Not only that, but I suspect that learning a new face-recognition language as an adult would be as difficult as learning a new spoken language as an adult. It would take heavy immersion. Unless I make a point of it, I'll probably never see black faces (prosopemes, to coin an awkward word) the way someone raised around black people from birth would.