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> —[Greg Cochran](https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2015/12/12/internal-contradictions/)
-> I said, "The truth is whatever you can get away with."
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-> "No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape."
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-> —_Distress_ by Greg Egan
+We socially-liberal individualist/feminist people—I _hope_ I'm still allowed to use the first person here, although the reader will ultimately judge that for herself—have this beautiful moral ideal, where we want all human beings to be free to maximize their potential, unencumbered by oppressive cultural traditions specifying roles and destinies in advance. We want everyone to be judged on her or his _own_ merits rather than treated as a representative of their race or sex.
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+And _because_ we care about the beautiful moral ideal, we tend to assume that psychological group differences don't exist or are superficial or are socially-constructed,
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+invidious distinction
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+(... the scintillating but ultimately untrue thought.)
-We socially-liberal individualist/feminist people—I _hope_ I'm still allowed to use the first person here, although the reader will ultimately judge that for herself—have this beautiful moral ideal, where we want every
-... the scintillating but ultimately untrue thought.
+And this is _so crazy_ on _multiple levels_.
-There's this an empricial structure to the world that _doesn't go away_
+analogy to spelling
-Psychological sex differences are
http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/10/society-is-fixed-biology-is-mutable/
(or four if you believe in gender identities, because on that worldview, I'm obviously a trans woman in denial)
-—they're _all_ trans, and _none_ of them come _close_ to passing.
+—they're _all_ trans, and _none_ of them come _close_ to passing.
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