I do regret using the holocaust example. The example was loosely based on one speaker who appeared to be defending eugenics by saying that the holocaust was actually considered a dysgenic event by top nazi officials
That sounds like an obviously invalid argument! Now, a) I didn’t attend that talk, b) many people are bad at making arguments, and c) I’ve long suspected that poor reasoning especially is positively correlated with racism (and this is true even after typical range restriction). So it’s certainly possible that the argument they made was literally that bad.
But I think it’s more likely that you misunderstood their argument.
Yeah I have now heard two people say that this was more a historical quibble than some sort of discussion of eugenics in relation to the holocaust. I imagine I could find the actual argument if people thought it was load bearing.
That sounds like an obviously invalid argument! Now, a) I didn’t attend that talk, b) many people are bad at making arguments, and c) I’ve long suspected that poor reasoning especially is positively correlated with racism (and this is true even after typical range restriction). So it’s certainly possible that the argument they made was literally that bad.
But I think it’s more likely that you misunderstood their argument.
Yeah I have now heard two people say that this was more a historical quibble than some sort of discussion of eugenics in relation to the holocaust. I imagine I could find the actual argument if people thought it was load bearing.