I understand these sentiments. Social science is not rocket science, and you should not blindly take experts for their word. But, as a layman, your knowledge and ability to interpret data has limits. You need a certain deference and knowledge of your limits.
My broader issue is how knowledge is harder to obtain directly through your own senses and experiences. More than ever before, you must rely on various mediators like academics, journalists, and politicians to learn about the world. I would not call this hearsay, but you end up relying a great deal on what other people say. Even learning basic statistics demands, to a certain degree, taking an "expert" at his word. Our biggest challenge in this information age, I think we can all agree, is discriminating between good information and bad. Either way, I am bothered by how dependent we are on mediators (or "experts") for information.
The point here is that any field where you absolutely need to know the minutiae of details probably isn't going to be political. If this were a debate between engineers or scientists, fine. The thing is, you don't need to be a well-researched expert to participate in 99% of the sorts of things we are talking about. In fact, the people who demand more granular details are most likely trying to argue away from the facts.
An example would be racial IQ. It is undeniable that IQ effects behavior in a multitude of small ways, it is inarguable that those many small things can amount to a bad situation in peoples' lives, and it is without question that black people have a significantly lower average IQ. This cannot even be debated, this is true. The studies are there, there's loads of studies, there's loads of independent analyses that back it up. Really anything beyond that
as a citizen does not matter, the why does not matter, we can come up with solutions. We have tried every solution, none of them seem to work.
That has similarly been well documented, you don't need a PhD to be familiar with it. Where it gets dicey is when they try to argue the why, and say "well YES there are more black people in prison, but that's BECAUSE _________" and that becomes their political policy, and that policy will land squarely in the lap of white people. Then the avalanche of speculation and insane details and interpretations come to guilt people into thinking they owe all black people one 10 trillion dollars, and that's their argument for the white person as a citizen.
But all you need to say is "I do not owe black people 10 trillion dollars for being criminals," and they literally have nothing.
You do not need to have a binder filled with 15 social scientists to know their solution is both retarded and destructive. We might as well say "everything will be better if black people become slaves again." I can craft an insane tornado of speculatives and suppositions and interpretations to sell them on that, and as a citizen all a black person has to say is "I don't want to be a slave." And that's the end of it.
All anyone needs to do is remember, no matter what, that people like Vaush and Destiny are not, in fact, political. What they are doing is not coming up with policy or laws or a 5 year plan. They don't actually give a shit about that and they're hoping they can gish-gallop you into forgetting that. Every position they have boils down to "you should change as a person, you owe it to (group X.) Just say no, just say you don't want to change. Done. You can apply this to everything. Everyone has that power, and it is their mission to make you forget that.
The best part is, dopes like Vaush can fall prey to this very same logic. I've seen it before with leftists, they start our straight and with a little bit of Progressive and Marxist dialectic applied you can convince them to be bisexual, or full on gay. You can actually make a political case that being straight doesn't exist and it's all conditioning, and they will come out the other end like "welp, that makes a lot of sense, I guess I better go suck a dick!" It never enters into their mind that they just don't want to get fucked in the ass, it's just a web of weird logic.
Trannies especially have latched onto this to try and nag leftists into fucking them for praxis.
