Posted on 04/06/2018 7:01:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
And the same goes for people who deny differences in class. In fact, differences in class can be more extreme than differences in race.
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Few ‘intellectuals’ accept Murray’s reasoning and bell curve.
Hence the ‘white privilege’ argument.
Are WE capable of judging all people as individuals?
The left doesn’t think so.
Maybe the Indians had it right with the caste system?
If it isn’t the climate nutters on the left trying to abuse science for political and social ends, it’s people supposedly on the right playing the same damn game with this.
Here is an idea. Just hire whomever you want, based on their resume and interview?
Just have people prove their individual abilities and both sides stop trying to use scams to get one over on some other group of people because they think they have a moral, historical, or some goofy biological right to stuff.
That’s as profoundly Un-American of a remark as I can imagine. I hope you made it without thinking.
He was not competent enough to be President. He was also half white.
The fact of the matter is that despite all the burbling on about individualism and all that, there really, truly, actually are significant and observable differences between the major racial groups on this planet. One of those differences is in average IQ and the standard distributions for IQs of individuals in each racial group that form around those averages.
This fact carries with it significant public policy questions relating to everything from crime to welfare to affirmative action to education policy.
Pretending that these differences don’t exist, and herpa-derping about “racism” when someone points them out is not going to make them going away. Refusing to accept them and refusing to craft rational public policy as a result of them is simply going to result in our society continuing to decline because we can’t face “uncomfortable” realities.
Human biodiversity isn’t going away, people. FReepers would do well to accept this reality.
I also remember then Anthropologist Richard Gould and his dishonest tirade against Murray and his book. Gould was a disgrace to the scientific community. let's see where Reich goes with this.
The revenue of the entire “discrimination lawsuit” industry rests upon two assertions:
1) That there is no statistically meaningful difference between ethnic populations, as far as intelligence (or any other factor determining success)is concerned, and therefore
2) Any statistical disparity between two groups MUST be due to illegal discrimination, which must be remedied by government action.
If it is recognized that statistically significant differences DO exist between groups, then the entire basis for the discrimination industry goes away, and the lawyers will have to find some other source of income. They do NOT want to do that.
The Obamster was as smart as Joseph Goebbels.
Hmmm... Take the city folks out to the dairy to inspect the Jersey, Guernsey, Holstein, and Brown Swiss cows.
<>They are capable of inter-breeding.
<>The butter fat content of the milk is different.
The average IQ for Africans in sub-Sahara Africa is 70, in Haiti it’s 68. An IQ of 70 is the threshold for mental retardation in the US.
No, the caste system puts in concrete what the Left is doing, where people and their descendants are forever treated according to what group they belong to, rather than their actual individual talents.
By the well meaning people, do you mean Al Sharpton, Oprah Winfrey, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, the entire Democrap Party, Hollywood Idiots, late night TV talk show hosts etc.
I really don't have a horse in this race. I just think the debate should continue honestly with each side developing and collecting data to support their arguments without questioning the motives of those they disagree with.
RE: The average IQ for Africans in sub-Sahara Africa is 70, in Haiti it’s 68.
Just curious, what is your source for this?
No. Class is entirely a social construct.
The premise of the article is in fact a primary theme of the TV series the Wire depicting black Baltimore society. The masses lack the intelligence and ability to escape their plight. However, there are some including Stringer Bell and Avon Barkley who possess greater intelligence. They induce those of lesser intelligence to their will
Extrapolating, the same thing happened to the ancestors of black America centuries ago in Africa. The inferiors were made slaves aand exported out of the country.
Well said.
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