Posted on 12/29/2019 6:32:53 PM PST by karpov
After a public uproar, The New York Times has revised a column by Bret Stephens that cited an academic paper co-authored by an anthropologist who has been branded a white nationalist.
An editor’s note, appended to the column headlined “The Secrets of Jewish Genius,” says a reference to the 2005 study was removed and that Stephens did not know the author “promoted racist views.
“Mr. Stephens was not endorsing the study or its authors’ views, but it was a mistake to cite it uncritically,” the note said. “The effect was to leave an impression with many readers that Mr. Stephens was arguing that Jews are genetically superior. That was not his intent.” It noted that he “went on instead to argue that culture and history are crucial factors in Jewish achievements.”
In the column, Stephens posed a question about Jews: “How is it that a people who never amounted even to one-third of 1 percent of the world’s population contributed so seminally to so many of its most pathbreaking ideas and innovations?”
He said that Jews “are, or tend to be, smart” and then cited the 2005 paper “Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence” by Gregory Cochran, Jason Hardy, and Henry Harpending, which declares that Ashkenazi Jews have the highest average I.Q. of any ethnic group.
It was quickly pointed out on social media that Harpending, who died in 2016, was listed as an extremist by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which listed his ideology as “white nationalist.”
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The IQ rating of a race is an average. There are still geniuses in lower IQ races. And of course, one can always take the tools God gave them and build a Tower.
That is true
I never read it. No funnies, not even on Sunday. Laaadedah! So I must be a genius already.
They also almost got wiped out by BIG GOVERNMENT, yet a BIG GOVERNMENT is what they VOTE FOR!
The Jews had NO GUNS to defend themselves in the Holocaust, yet they want to take away guns here!! Jews seem to be DUMBER than hillbilies in many ways!
SPLC is a hate group!
You might want to cut Jews a little slack. The world only tried to exterminate them completely as a people last century. They have been doing what they think they must do to stay out of the ovens, I guess. We ancient Scot’s on the other hand, are itching for a fight. Lol.
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