[bluegirl]

One great thing about the USA is the opportunity for upward mobility. There are many, many examples of families where the grandparents may not have finished high school, the parents were blue-collar high school graduates and the children graduated from college.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - L’Chaim

[Lion Den Dan]

This puke is full of dung.

[SkyDancer]

I guess he also needs to define “working class” ... isn’t anyone who works for a living considered working class people? From a million dollar a year CEO to say a fast food worker is working for a living hence “working class”. Maybe people like him live off (parasite comes to mind) the working class so he can do his idiotic studies .....

[Revolting cat!]

My collar is brown, but then I wash my shirt.

[isrul]

IF he's going to make such a statement, he must include the lower classes of the negro persuasion or else the study is racist. However, limiting it to whites, he may gain acceptance from liberals who despise the working class.

[familyop]

Ah...subjective advocacy science for us, to teach us to better respect our most honorable business and political leaders.

BTW, oil prices continue to generally rise, while the dollar falls. May the revenues—and consequently, the seeds—of our henpecked, enemy-appeasing, sexually confused masters dry up for ever and ever. May their preferred communist slaves in east Asia someday rule over them and do whatever is necessary to crush their vanities into humilities. LOL!

[Nonpolitical politics is not pretty, but that’s what is needed to correct the situation.]

[Revolting cat!]

Everybody is an “idiot” and “elitist” who doesn’t subscribe to the insane American religion of egalitarianism. Yeah, sure, “all people are the same the world over”, Dr. Maslow.

[OpusatFR]

I’m glad I’m not an Alpha. Alphas have to work soooo hard thinking all day.

I’m glad that I’m a Beta. I’m better than a Delta, and better than a Gamma.

I’m glad to be a Beta.

[Zionist Conspirator]

WORKING-CLASS students have lower IQs than those from wealthier backgrounds and should not be expected to win places at top universities, an academic has claimed. Bruce Charlton, an evolutionary psychiatrist at Newcastle University, has written a paper asserting the reason why fewer students from poor families are admitted to Oxford or Cambridge is not because of social prejudice, but lack of ability.

Well . . . as long as they're "crackers," anyway.

[svcw]

Working class - stupid
People who don’t work - smart
Huh?

[RightWhale]

This is an old article or a rehash.

[Anticommie]

Working classes are less intelligent, says evolution expert

That must be the case, our "working class" supporting The Beast.

[avacado]

Horse feathers! I work with PhDs from China, Bangladesh, and other 3rd world places who grew up in mud huts and they are the brightest of the brightest and went to top U.S. schools.

[ETL]

since Democrats market themselves as “The Party Of The Working Class®,” doesn’t this study mean that they’re the party of dumb people?

That is precisely what liberals think, which is why they want to set up a system where they, as the intellectual superiors, will make all the decisions.

The Center for Public Intellectuals & The University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC)
April 19th-20th, 2002, Conference
[Participants include: William/Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Sen Barack Obama]

April 19th-20th, 2002
Chicago Illini Union
828 S. Wolcott

This conference is part of the Center's mission of helping to create a more engaged civil society, working towards social change, fostering coalitions between theorists and activists, and combating anti-intellectualism in contemporary culture. It will be both a celebration of ideas and a rigorous examination of the roles and responsibilities that intellectuals play in society.

I. Why Do Ideas Matter? (a keynote panel)

We introduce the “meta” theme of the conference by hearing “success stories” from diverse voices discussing their experiences intervening intellectually.

Timuel Black, Chicago activist; Prof. Emeritus, City Colleges of Chicago
Lonnie Bunch, President, Chicago Historical Society
Bernardine Dohrn, Northwestern University Law School, Children and Family Justice Center
Gerald Graff, UIC, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Richard Rorty, Stanford University, Philosophy

III. Lunch and Public Encounters

Alternative breakout tours led by Chicago activists. Tours of Bronzeville and other communities, and visits to organizations that are working on partnering theorists with activists.

IV. Intellectuals in Times of Crisis
Experiences and applications of intellectual work in urgent situations.

William Ayers, UIC, College of Education; author of Fugitive Days
Douglass Cassel, Northwestern University, Center for International Human Rights
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, Political Science
Salim Muwakkil, Chicago Tribune; In These Times
Barack Obama, Illinois State Senator
Barbara Ransby, UIC, African-American Studies (moderator)

The Center for Public Intellectuals
University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC):
http://www.uic.edu/classes/las/las400/conferencealt.htm

Bill Ayers, TODAY, April 6, 2008, from his own red communist star-headed website, begging to debate communism vs capitalism with Sean Hannity and STILL calling for revolution!...

"Imperialism. I’m against it, and if Sean Hannity and others were honest, this is the ground they would fight me on. Capitalism played its role historically and is exhausted as a force for progress: built on exploitation, theft, conquest, war, and racism, capitalism and imperialism must be defeated and a world revolution—a revolution against war and racism and materialism, a revolution based on human solidarity and love, cooperation and the common good —must win.

We begin by releasing our most hopeful dreams and our most radical imaginations: a better world is both possible and necessary.

Source: http://billayers.wordpress.com/2008/04/page/2/

[grjr21]

Bunk
I’ve met more than one child of the wealthy who wasn’t to bright but managed to do quite well for themselves and I worked for a guy that became a millionaire from pure hard work an innate ability to delegate and complete lack of ethics and morals

[fr_freak]

If there were a single gene, or a relatively small set of genes that determined overall intelligence, this theory might make sense. However, that does not appear to be the case and, as a result, smart people sometimes have stupid kids and stupid people some times have smart kids. Children of smart parents will have an edge in terms of environmental factors, because they will most likely be exposed to more intellectually stimulating things than the kids of stupid people, not to mention they probably receive better physical and nutritional care (although not guaranteed), and they will have greater expectations put on them, but it is no guarantee that they will actually be smart.

Most likely, those smart kids who are born into poverty end up succeeding in one way or another, and thus move out of the "working class" category.

One ironic thing about the term "working class": it is used in the US quite often as a substitute for "poor", but an unhealthy percentage of our poor people do not actually work.

[The Woim]

IQ makes for a great discussion topic but the measure of a man is his character and whether or not he’ll do the right thing.

Of course, it’s a given that working class people have a lower IQ and will give birth to lower IQ’d children.

As long as some lefty (or American Democrat) doesn’t start advocating for forced sterilization, I’m okay with anything the academics have to say on the subject.

If you understood the concept of private property and if our laws protected private property with the tenacity and integrity the Founding Fathers intended, the lower IQ’d citizens would have nothing to fear.

America is still a meritocracy. The low IQ’d citizen can still achieve his goals in life. In Britain, if you score low on the state administered IQ tests, you won’t be admitted into higher education at all, much less Oxford.

Yours truly,
The Woim

[libbylu]

Obviously an elitist, liberal position. He might even think some of us are bitter.

[Just mythoughts]

This has liberalism painted all over it.... group think and group protection. What good are their IQ tests anyway? IQ tests do NOT measure character or integrity as I have read that old Bill Clinton has a particularly high IQ, not company I would personally find a desire to be numbered. I am also reading those of upper IQ ratings are Obama supporters. Old Hillary also famed to be the smartest woman on this earth is connecting with the old people, and uneducated worker class.

Lord McCain who is second to none in his personal presentation of himself on this planet, does NOT indicate any elements of having higher than average IQ. And he got to his present position with the votes of liberals and supposed independents also known as the moderate elites....

So what is the literal point of IQ measurements when the results seem to indicate it is more about bragging rights than any self accomplished achievement?

I have found it is cheaper to hire a lawyer than a plumber, so who is the ‘smarter’ of the two professions. What about all those unionized workers, I have been told to hope that any thing I purchase was not made on a Friday or a Monday by unionized workers.

Given what places like Harvard and Yale etc., produce, Obamas and Clintons what good is their reputation anymore anyway.