If you mean antiracism, I’ve posted it plenty of times and am happy to post it again.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/antiracis ... w-religion
https://youtu.be/2RMEiclpA7E
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If you mean antiracism, I’ve posted it plenty of times and am happy to post it again.
Mensa meetings are indeed for losers, as I can testify from personal experience.Mark Leavy wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2020 9:15 pmIQ is interesting. It is a valuable number. For a lot of different reasons. It is also a heavily abused statistic by folks who don't understand math.Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2020 4:32 pmIf you don't accept IQ measurements as valid, then you have to throw out all the other quantitative results of psychology too. IQ is by far the best validated psychological measurement.
And no one in psychology actually doubts that there are significant IQ differences between races. They just don't want to talk about it because it is politically incorrect.
There's a reason that about 20% of all Nobel Prizes, even including the non-science prizes that represent political posturing rather than merit, have been awarded to less than 0.2% of the world population. Even the extremely PC Wikipedia acknowledges this: "Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 900 individuals,[1] of whom at least 20% were Jews although the Jewish population comprises less than 0.2% of the world's population." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_J ... _laureates.
I'm pretty sure the over-representation is even more complete in the actual science prizes.
Exactly.stuper1 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2020 12:52 pmI'm not sure what we would do with that information anyway in terms of setting social policies. To me, we have what we have, and we need to do the best with it, and set social policies to encourage every person to do the best with what they've got.
Regarding helping disadvantaged people, everybody always says that we need to fix the education system. Of course, that doesn't work if the family structure is broken. We can keep pouring boatloads of money into education, but if there aren't parents at home to encourage the kids, then it will make little to no difference. The policies that should be adopted are ones designed to strengthen the family, but I'm not holding my breath expecting that to happen, because those policies are not politically useful.
First of all, anyone with an IQ 2 standard deviations below the norm will NOT amount to anything in the modern Western world. (about 70). But in Papua New Guinea, many a top tracker and hunter fall in that category.
And in contrast, 2 standard deviations above the norm (about 130) are no guarantee of success in the Western World. Have you ever been to a Mensa meeting? Ouch. A lot of losers there.
So, some takeaways. If you live in the US and you come from a low IQ race or culture, you are pretty much screwed unless you are way off of the curve. Conversely, a high IQ doesn't guarantee you anything. You might do okay, but we don't know why.
As I read this post/ thread I was struck by a recollection of something that I learned as a Teenager.pp4me wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2020 4:24 pmI can't find the link but I read an article the other day about how racism has become the new religion in America. The photo I posted at the start of this thread with Dems kneeling in congress under the leadership of Nancy Pelosi just confirms what that article was saying.
And then there was the recent case of Drew Brees, the quarterback of the New Orleans Saints who had to apologize for his statement about not disrespecting the American flag by kneeling in protest. He has since offered a "sincere" apology for this and his wife even offered a more sincere one with tears in her eyes for the extreme "pain" that she and her husband had caused.
Another black NFL player said his apology was NOT accepted. He needs to do more.
In other words, we white people must admit we are sinners simply by the fact of being born white and there is no hope for redemption unless we accept the orthodoxy of the new religion.
Personally, I DO think Drew Brees was sincere in his apology because he has announced that this is his last year in the NFL and he doesn't want to be looking across the line of scrimmage at black players intent on ending his career even earlier than he was hoping. His wife probably has similar hopes.
My guess he would be called Racist,Homophobic, White Privileged etc. the usual. by the Left wing Press.
My Dad used to tell me that all the time but I think it came in the form of "nobody owes you a living".
It definitely suggests that we’re a better country than the one they’re leaving, and that whatever problems we have in the U.S., they’re not as severe nor as immediate as a gang member’s looming machete.stuper1 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 12:51 amYou know one fact that strongly shows that systemic racism in the US is a lie? Immigration. We have people of literally every race, creed, color, whatever, including from Africa, literally forcing themselves into our country by whatever means possible, whether legal or illegal. Would they really be doing that if we had systemic racism that wouldn't allow them a fair chance to achieve based on their own merit?
Yes, if they thought they were going to get to live in a first world society at the expense of the existing residents.stuper1 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 12:51 amYou know one fact that strongly shows that systemic racism in the US is a lie? Immigration. We have people of literally every race, creed, color, whatever, including from Africa, literally forcing themselves into our country by whatever means possible, whether legal or illegal. Would they really be doing that if we had systemic racism that wouldn't allow them a fair chance to achieve based on their own merit?
If the US really is such an unshakable magnet for immigrants, it's a no-brainer to have very high standards for them.Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 7:45 amYes, if they thought they were going to get to live in a first world society at the expense of the existing residents.stuper1 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 12:51 amYou know one fact that strongly shows that systemic racism in the US is a lie? Immigration. We have people of literally every race, creed, color, whatever, including from Africa, literally forcing themselves into our country by whatever means possible, whether legal or illegal. Would they really be doing that if we had systemic racism that wouldn't allow them a fair chance to achieve based on their own merit?
So the way we can find out whether we have systemic racism is to eliminate all subsidies for immigrants.
It’s even worse than that: Their single mothers on welfare send them the exact opposite message through their words and actions.
It's just part of the white-guilt program. They want white people to feel guilty about everything. Nevermind that without white people most of the nice things in the world wouldn't even exist, starting with things like modern medicine, hygiene, prosperity, etc. which have helped every race of people on earth.Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 2:35 pmIf the US really is such an unshakable magnet for immigrants, it's a no-brainer to have very high standards for them.Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 7:45 amYes, if they thought they were going to get to live in a first world society at the expense of the existing residents.stuper1 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 12:51 amYou know one fact that strongly shows that systemic racism in the US is a lie? Immigration. We have people of literally every race, creed, color, whatever, including from Africa, literally forcing themselves into our country by whatever means possible, whether legal or illegal. Would they really be doing that if we had systemic racism that wouldn't allow them a fair chance to achieve based on their own merit?
So the way we can find out whether we have systemic racism is to eliminate all subsidies for immigrants.
As such, the fact that we have things like the Diversity Immigrant Visa program is fucking retarded. Come at me bro, etc etc.
Of course, but for some reason that's racist now.stuper1 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 3:12 pmIt's just part of the white-guilt program. They want white people to feel guilty about everything. Nevermind that without white people most of the nice things in the world wouldn't even exist, starting with things like modern medicine, hygiene, prosperity, etc. which have helped every race of people on earth.Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 2:35 pmIf the US really is such an unshakable magnet for immigrants, it's a no-brainer to have very high standards for them.Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 7:45 amYes, if they thought they were going to get to live in a first world society at the expense of the existing residents.stuper1 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 12:51 amYou know one fact that strongly shows that systemic racism in the US is a lie? Immigration. We have people of literally every race, creed, color, whatever, including from Africa, literally forcing themselves into our country by whatever means possible, whether legal or illegal. Would they really be doing that if we had systemic racism that wouldn't allow them a fair chance to achieve based on their own merit?
So the way we can find out whether we have systemic racism is to eliminate all subsidies for immigrants.
As such, the fact that we have things like the Diversity Immigrant Visa program is fucking retarded. Come at me bro, etc etc.
And if we did have high standards for immigrants, we would have less immigrants, which would mean that our poor people would have a better chance of finding decent work.
Reminds me of this article about self-esteem among black teenagers....