Desi-Rae
Desi-Rae
Aug 22, 2017 · 3 min read

Hi again Justin,

Do what you want. I have no interest in being your friend. I am quite wary of you in fact. I do not forgive you or believe your motivations are kind.

Again, my point in responding to your post is that people should go to the source and not rely on an article’s characterisation of me (or any of the other persons actually). I do care what people think of me, though I can’t control others and knew this starting my channel, because I am a human being and a social creature. There’s a second video I did on the topic that was linked in the first response. I also briefly mention some of my views in a video titled ‘ Dear leaders of multiethnic societies’. Also briefly in a more recent video on Charlottesville. If you’re super curious maybe there’s a way to find all my comments especially under that video for times when I actually give my opinion. I stand by all my previous statements regarding what I think of your article, and assuming character or motivation from afar and why I think you have mentioned me or claim you seek to be my friend.

I think you should focus on data and science, and reasons why you think certain sources may be invalid. To me, I think that comes down to methodology and scientific rigor not the person’s personal beliefs or aims or goals. I myself did not like the discovery of the historical roots of the Pioneer Fund. I talk about this at length in my response to one of the top comments on the video, why that translated into me feeling ‘a twinge of satisfaction’ which was wrong of my by the way, in my viewpoint. That paper I cited was a literature review. A literature review is not a study but a compilation and analysis of research in the field thus far. I clearly state why I was reading the paper. I also have other videos with more sources. There are also other studies which I don’t link to in my videos. There’s a video I did on inequality which has a source which tracks the correlation between income and IQ. In my other videos I say what I think of the nature vs nurture argument. I say why I think the topic is important to discuss many times. It is a fact that there are differences in average IQ between populations, including along racial lines, whatever the reasons. There are also differences between men and women. And populations do not have to be sorted by race, as colloquially defined by many people. There would still be average group differences as is the case for most traits in the biological world, because evolution and biological or social adaptation. There was an American Psychological Association task force specifically set up to discover this. If you think that reading and sharing information automatically puts someone in a box, based on your idea of what is okay and not okay to discuss, then it isn’t about the research but your own personal agenda and grappling with your own feelings, then seeking to control others through your label of wrongthink so that things play out the way you would like them to. I do repeatedly state on my twitter account that facts aren’t racist, or sexist or xenophopic because they aren’t. Data doesn’t have an agenda, people do. You can’t personify data because it’s not a person. Again, it is up to me to decide how I wish to act in the world. You seem to have little respect for other peoples agency or ability to think, which is ironic considering the topic. I hope to eventually respond to your initial email by specifically focusing on what you think of the research and looking at your sources. That’s not a promise but a plan; it may not come to pass. Because I think the topic is important and sensitive enough for it to be scrutinized, though I don’t believe any other area of science gets as much scrutiny but is still sufficient enough to be accepted.

Sincerely,

Desi-Rae

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