Posted on 02/14/2018 7:50:13 AM PST by SeekAndFind
We don’t know the student’s name, but we do know that he hit a nerve — in fact, he hit a whole bunch of them. Identified only as a boy of Asian descent at C.K. McClatchy High School in California, the teen’s recent science-fair project, “Race and IQ,” propounded the thesis that differences in groups’ average intelligence influence their academic performance. He couldn’t win, though, because his project was removed after parents, staff and other students became “upset” and one girl said she felt “unsafe and uneasy.” The irony?
A project on evolution would no doubt have been well received — even though an assumption of racial differences is implicit in evolutionary theory.
In fact, The Sacramento Bee, which hasn’t yet evolved out of the progressive primordial soup, mentioned that the student’s thesis is associated with eugenics (which the Bee casts negatively), the science of improving the human race via selective breeding. The paper is likely unaware, however, that the term “eugenics” itself was coined by Sir Francis Galton — a cousin of famed evolutionist Charles Darwin — and that Galton made clear that in his eugenicist endeavors, he was merely building on his cousin’s work.
Philosopher G.K. Chesterton once noted that if people “were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal.” This is easy to understand: What are the chances that different groups could have “evolved” isolated from one another for eons — subject to different environments, stresses, procreation-influencing cultural imperatives and adaptive realities — and ended up identical in every worldly measure? Why, even if the peoples evolved isolated in identical environments, the separation alone would make the prospects of winding up completely “equal” a virtual statistical impossibility.
Whatever you believe about evolution, it’s clear that equality is not a thing of this world.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Identified only as a boy of Asian descent at C.K. McClatchy High School in California, the teen’s recent science-fair project, “Race and IQ,” propounded the thesis that differences in groups’ average intelligence influence their academic performance.Proposition 209, the state ballot measure that ended affirmative action at California universities, has been under attack by black and Latino political demagogues since enactment. It has even been necessary to take some U's to court because they implemented illegal quota schemes anyway. "Critics say Prop. 209 has dramatically hurt minority enrollment in the 10-campus University of California system." -- that doesn't include Asian minority enrollment of course. Remember the Demwit politician -- a gun control fanatic in public -- who got nailed for gun-running? He was Asian and a staunch defender of 209.
Oh please.
The only reason this keeps getting posted over and over again is because a little contingent on FR loves the whole “blacks are stupid, because science supposedly says so, so I’m not bad when I think they are all inferior to me” narrative, and because some Asian kid made this a science fair project, it gives them some cover to act like it makes the absurd generalization ok, because “SEE? An Asian guy said it!”.
Mind you, the moment Asians start calling whites intellectually inferior to them, because science, then all of the people gleefully reposting this story will all of a sudden no longer like the “science”. It’s only good for going after blacks.
None of the people obsessed with this garbage gives two shakes about bone density or any of that superficial crap.
Rush has said for a long time, nowadays the truth can get you in trouble in this country. This looks like a good example of that.
Absolutely, they do. Then, they want to pretend whatever they produce is brilliant and "correct" also. Always several right answers and ways to do things.
Yes, Sir.
“The truth hurts apparently.”
That’s the basis of all the outrage over race and IQ.
It HURTS children of color, and damages them.
It causes them to surrender. Not that it changes their fate.
Nobody wants to hear they are stupid, especially from the institutions and people that are teaching.
Some truths, while they cannot be denied, are better left unsaid. It’s sometimes good enough to just let reality manifest.
Except that, when the truth is not allowed to be said, the lie becomes dominant.
The lie, in this case, is that ANY statistical disparity of achievement between races is ONLY caused by racism, and must thereby be remediated by the use of Affirmative Action.
RE: he only reason this keeps getting posted over and over again is because a little contingent on FR loves the whole “blacks are stupid,
Let me stop here for a moment and explain WHY I posted it since I am the originator of this thread.
Before I post something, I first make sure to enter the EXACT title of the article in the search box to see if someone else posted it before. I did and Nothing came out. THAT is why I posted this article.
Now if someone else posted something similar before with a different title, I was not aware of it.
I have NO OTHER PERSONAL AGENDA, and I don’t believe in the whole foolish “blacks are stupid” idea.
I hope this clarifies.
“The threshold I.Q. level for a diagnosis of mental retardation has been progressively lowered over the years, in part because of awareness of the damaging social prejudice suffered by those labeled “retarded.” In 1959, the American Association on Mental Deficiency set 85 as the I.Q. below which a person was considered to be retarded.14 In 1992, the renamed American Association on Mental Retardation lowered the mental retardation “ceiling” to an I.Q. of 70-75,15 but many mental health specialists argue that people with I.Q.s of up to 80 may also have mental retardation. 16 Flexibility in the I.Q. standard is important because tests given at different times may show slight variations due to differences in the tests and because of testing error — the standard error measurement on I.Q. tests is generally three to five points.”
“HERE IS AN OBSERVATION THAT CANNOT BE DENIED:
In IQ Tests, Ashkenazi Jews score the highest of all, at 115 (the world average is currently about 88); this may explain why Jews are only 0.2 percent of the world’s population but were 22 percent of the 20th century’s Nobel Prize winners.”
They are also the majority in our Leftist/Marxist Media, Entertainment, and Political arenas, and most people seem not to notice. A Jewish Republican is a rare animal.
“That’s the basis of all the outrage over race and IQ.
It HURTS children of color, and damages them.”
It’s that actual racists use it to justify their assumptions that black kids are dumb, sight unseen, and are incapable of anything and should be relegated to 3rd class status.
Of course while the same people criticize the Democrats for all of the state programs that have destroyed generations of black Americans, and uses phrases like “the bigotry of low expectations” to attack them, as opposed to their open assumptions that they aren’t even intelligent!
One side uses the state to destroy a people, and people supposedly on ours rather just assume they are all worthless subhumans.
Some people need to keep their sick politics out of science, because both sides are filled with the equivalent of child molesters when comes to some of this.
Just like crabs in a bucket.
Did you mean to say "race" instead of "racism"?
RE: They are also the majority in our Leftist/Marxist Media, Entertainment, and Political arenas, and most people seem not to notice.
There are also Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews. Do we really know which of the above people belong to which?
How about the Orthodox and Conservative Jews? Are they Ashkenazi or of the others?
And of course, as a Jew, Dennis Prager, observes, having a high IQ does not equate to being wise. King Solomon was highly intelligent, but he ended up being foolish in his later life.
No. I meant racism.
I think race is the reason. That is, the race tends to be superior, generally speaking, to other races in that particular skill set.
Racism implies that they were selected due to their race, regardless of ability. You know, like what Affirmative action does.
Shame on him/her/it.
We must learn to accept reality no matter how it reflects on ourselves. My genetics prevent me from being a professional basketball player. they also prevent me from being a runner. My brain however is quite sharp and I have a high IQ. I'm not salty because I can't make millions playing professional sports, as each person has their own strengths and weaknesses. Accepting that is the first step in learning to capitalize on what you're good at.
Don't you know? The fact that this is current and in the news in much of the country is irrelevant. The fact that you have people screaming for this kid's head is irrelevant. Certain things cannot be said, and that is the end of the story. The fact that we have example after example here on FR of posts about a topic being posted endlessly means nothing. Nothing else matters! You must be a racist because the subject is verboten!
Report to your reeducation center promptly comrade.
Sometimes the truth is hard to accept. Maybe he should have also included the differences by ethnicity in their work ethics. It really doesn’t take a study to conclude what is so obvious if one just observed society.
“And of course, as a Jew, Dennis Prager, observes, having a high IQ does not equate to being wise.”
Jews are smart, educated, industrious, and successful people at just about anything they attempt. All of which makes them, in view of their majority Leftist political bent, a problem for our society. It amazes me when anyone calls them to the attention of the body politic, someone of their number tries to fend off that reality, by the nostrum “well, these people really aren’t Jews!”
If we’re going full out anti-PC it’s worth noting that women’s IQ’s cluster around the mean... there aren’t as many smart women as men - or as many women with ‘intellectual disability’ (retarded)...
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