Old definitions:
Liberals: Favor social freedoms, but not economic freedoms.
Conservatives: Favor economic freedoms, but not social freedoms.New definitions:
Liberals: Believe in evolution, but not biology.
Conservatives: Believe in biology, but not evolution.
READER COMMENTS
Tom Myers
Mar 15 2007 at 12:55pm
It might be a good idea to replace “biology” with “genetic variability”, both times.
talboito
Mar 15 2007 at 1:45pm
In other words:
Liberals believe in science, but aren’t racists.
Conservatives are racists, but believe God made them that way (the races and themselves).
Fundamentalist
Mar 16 2007 at 12:28pm
talboito: “Conservatives are racists”
Where did that come from? How do you get “Conservatives are racists” from “Conservatives: Believe in biology, but not evolution?”
Tom West
Mar 16 2007 at 1:04pm
I *think* he means “racist = believer in significant race-based ability/behaviour differences”.
Me, I’d stick with “racist = promulgator of race-based ability/behaviour differences”, although that might be a bit unfair to those who *truly* believe that they aren’t responsible for the consequences of what they say.
TGGP
Mar 16 2007 at 1:48pm
Even if our species did not have the population clusters that it does (for example, if in the future there is basically random mating for a long time), human-biodiversity would still be a fact of life ignored at our peril. Male vs female differences would also be far more difficult to eliminate.
Patri Friedman
Mar 16 2007 at 6:41pm
Tom – brevity is the soul of wit.
Bryan – glad someone appreciated the quip
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