Notices by Rabbit Cohen (bathyspherehat@mastodon.online), page 2

@evan Huh, I didn't know that. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out socially, because the social norms on tumblr are... strange.

@evan Nice, congrats!

Living in the deep south is a bargain you make where you trade your human rights for delicious breakfast foods.

Not, like, anyone specific. Just somebody.

Possessed by the sudden urge to throw eggs at someone.

This is a damn good point.

@evan This is one of the reasons that sometimes I type replies out and then delete them instead of posting them.

@evan I would argue the latter.

This was in something they recently published. Disgusting.

Reminder that Jewish Voice for Peace does not represent Jews.

It's not necessary for diagnosis, but it can give insight about what would be helpful in terms of accommodations, coaching, etc.

IQ tests are generally not very good, mind. But they are useful in some contexts. For example, they're often used in testing for ADHD and evaluating what people's needs are by allowing for observation of what impedes them in the tasks and observing the discrepancy between intellectual ability and ADHD related deficits.

You can be smart, but being smart doesn't make you more valuable than other people. It doesn't make your experiences and emotions more important.

Instead of saying "intelligence isn't real" or "differences in intelligence aren't real", we should be saying "smart people don't carry more ethical weight".

Anyway, it seems like a lot of leftists reject the idea of intelligence because it's an easy way to reject race science and eugenics type bullshit. But it's not really an effective way to do that, because it avoids tackling the actual flaws in those things, and it's obvious to anyone who isn't a leftist that it's a cop-out.

Mind, "you're smart" doesn't mean just one thing, but neither does "you're pretty". That doesn't mean attractive people don't have any advantages.

Intelligence doesn't make anyone more or less worthy of quality of life.

I don't think Elon Musk is actually lazy. I think he's an extremely maladaptive workaholic who assumes that everyone who isn't like him is lazy.

And even outside of intellectual disabilities, how are we supposed to help people with intellectual weaknesses if we don't acknowledge that such weaknesses exist?

Intelligence is hard to measure, but it does exist. I mean, think about it. We all know that intellectually disabled people exist, and most of us acknowledge that disability and ability are a spectrum. Why would intellectual disabilities be exceptions? Why would intellectual disability be a binary off/on switch, not a gradient?