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Example: Octo (admitted Oliver) started an article on Edward Dutton. That article has seen activity from what appears to be the latest Oliver sock , SimonandSimon. Is this actually Oliver?

As it happens, the other day, because of a link in the article, I watched a Dutton video. It was difficult to tolerate, the guy has, for me, quite an annoying voice. He needs some coaching if he is to be more effective.

But he is obviously intelligent and is working on what appears to be real science, not pseudoscience. His hypotheses are radically incorrect politically. But science is not about political correctness at all. Unless you are a sociologist studying “political correctness.”

He uses racial categories, and whether or not this is “pseudoscientific” would depend on the definitions used in studies he cites. (Racialists propose that race is a biological reality rather than merely a collection of traits. But race is definitely a social reality, depending very much on context. Racialism can be distinct from racism, and it is possible to be either or both.)

But the very fact that he mentions “race” is considered enough to cast him into the outer darkness, for the Smiths. So this is a good example, I suspect. I’m going to critique the article (and Dutton, to some extent, along the way). Is he a racist? What I’m seeing is that his claims are being misrepresented as if obviously racist when they might simply be factual.

And in some fascist anti-racist environments, presenting clear fact will be attacked. (Fascism is not wrong, and pointing to some activity as fascist does not mean that it is wrong, it means that it is suppressive or attempting to suppress contrary views by any means other than the development of consensus or the clarification of differences, both of which require tolerance, rejected by fascism.)