Scientific racism

Race, is it merely a social construct, or is there something...

Uh, is it just abstract, or is it tangible? Is it objective? Is it real? Um, so talking about, uh, race realism, um, talking about, uh, distinctions between races.

What is race? What are the distinctions? Why do these distinctions exist? Do these distinctions create disparities? Do disparities naturally form hierarchies? Is this immoral? Um, is this...

Uh, all, all these kinds of questions are what we address in the very beginning of the book.

Yeah.

And so anyways, um, the point is that I believe is the Christian position.

Not race essentialism, not racial determinism, not racial egalitarianism, liberalism, but race realism.

Well, I mean-

Where if you were in Europe and you had someone that speaks French and then you were in Germany and someone speaks German, there is a little bit more of a cultural barrier and a language barrier that you have to deal with.

So race realism begins with this simple acknowledgement that God providentially moved humanity into visible embodied distinctions that are neither accidental nor meaningless.

Okay? Um, it's not like an accident that God visually distinguished us in different categories.

Uh, this is part of God's providence and part of his design of the mosaic of peoples across the world.

But the question is, who the hell is he? He was on a three-year research fellowship at Cambridge's philosophy faculty in 2022, and he had a position at Emmanuel College alongside it.

And his thing, the thing he's known for is what he calls race realism.

That's his phrase, not mine.

Now I want to explain what that actually means because people will throw this stuff around and half of the time, nobody knows what's being claimed.

It is evidenced by their genetic makeup, phenotypical expression, behavior, and traits that meaningfully differ from other people's.

In the pages of this prolegomena, we will defend this framework we term race realism, but add to it an explication of the spiritual component that elevates nations from mere shared DNA to the spiritual connection of memory, soul, and place.

Nations are never less than shared biology, but extend above and beyond it.

In this prolegomena, we defend race realism and explicate the implications of not just biological descent, but souls and nations.

Rest assured, the eugenics of religion is not an argument for positive eugenics.

Eugenic programs that employ abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, and population control as a means of managing a given population are categorically evil and condemned in Scripture.

Nathan, I thought that I wanted to interview you about the Jason Arte thing, but I think that's all been gone over, and I don't know if we'll have anything new to say about that.

And then I want to interview more about this race realism thing.

I'm a big fan of genetics.

I wrote a a paper in college for my senior year.

He wrote a book called where he was saying that he's against affirmative action because he wanted to eliminate the stigma that a black graduate from Harvard would have.

He said, you know, when people kind of know the reality, then you have this degree from Harvard Law School, let's say, and people say, yeah, well, yeah, that's fine if you're a white guy, but what does that degree really mean in your hands? So he wanted that eliminated.

None of that requires this embrace of race realism.

Affirmative action, is, you know, you can make the arguments unfair, and especially when they went off the deep end on it, where they didn't just say, you know, we have a history of racism and slavery, and Jim Crow, so let's limit, let's make sure we have five or 10% of the students to be black at all times.

It's a construct that is a marketing term.

And when we hear it, we need to be extra careful to examine, like, what are we being sold? And the way that race science plays into the contemporary dialogue was actually how I first kind of sniffed this out.

It was contemporary groups who were concerned with AI safety.

which, you know...

Oh, AI alignment.

Yeah, we want to align these computer systems to human values.

And so, you know, the moment that you kind of start to read stuff from these people, it is clear the overt references to race science.

It's not even, as you say, a sort of nobody's being shy about it.