>>3015612You're strawmanning what a race realist is. A race realist doesn't say racial groups, genrtic clusters, whatever term you wanna use all act the same lol? A race realist just acknowledges base rates, a fairly simple statistical concept, like bell curves.
Do you deny thay blacks on average in the US score around ~85 iq or one standard deviation bellow the white mean and that this relationship is graphed on a bell curve?
Genetics undermine individual action and they have predictive validity. Like, for example, heritability estimate which attribute causality on genetics. Like it's pretty well knon that anti-social behavior is heritable
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1995-40691-001>Medium to large effect sizes were found for genetic influences across twin studies, with approximately 50% of the variance in measures of antisocial behavior attributable to heredity.And anti-social behavior is linked to criminality, especially violent crime. This underpins individual action, it adds explanatory factor.
I'm not "attribute behavior to a collective racial essence." i'm attributing behavior to behavior genetics, there's a whole branch for behavior! Behavior is not a thing that exists in a vacuum.
>treating a demographic category as a monolith with a singular trajectoryI'm not doing that, simply acknowledging base rates, again, most murdered are men, most crime is committed by men, these are base rates that are empirically true…
>By rejecting the idea that forces act upon whole classes or groups you are admitting that using race as a predictive shorthand is a scientific dead end that ignores the actual drivers of human action.Idk what you mean here, i didn't reject that forces can act of groups of people… I don't think many people do, do you think juche style socialism acts upong the korean ethnicity in a certain way or that chattle slavery acted a certain way on blacks at the time?