If you want to see proof of Original Sin, just read the comments of almost any website. YouTube, being an international site, has the best range of international inanity. (Sites where Indians and Pakistani's meet are especially amusing. Talk about "hate!") Ex Cathedra is excluded from this trend, of course. We only have high class commentors here.
In yet another piece about the constant and so-far immovable 15 point average IQ gap between Whites (100) and Blacks (85) in the US, --poverty or wealth making no dent on that--one distressed egalitarian Leukophore protested, "But I know smart Black people." Author replies, "Good. Have them explain average to you."
Bingo. Twice.
Funny how the higher average IQ of certain North Asian groups (106) and of Ashkenazi* Jews (115) does not provoke howls of rage and protest from American Whites (100). I guess maybe because they're smart enough to understand what it means. (And if the White-composed tests are racially biased, why do the Asians always come out on top of Whites?)
Higher IQ is, in general, (note: in general), a predictor of higher achievement, status, success, etc. Ex Cathedra's IQ is about 130, which makes him generally more intelligent than about 98% of the human race. But his Five/INTP character contains flaws --primarily, an imbalance combining introversion and procrastination--that put a big crimp in his capacity for status and success. Five university degrees have not cashed out into five juicy bank accounts.
On the other hand, if your IQ is 80, it will take a helluva lot of character jewels to make up for that.
And the kicker in all this is that while genes are not totally responsible for all this, they are at least...at least...50% responsible. Prolly more. Poor White kids regularly outperform rich Black kids on the SAT's.
Which means that if you announce No Child Left Behind, you are lying. And there's nothing you can do about it. You can pass laws, blame the schools, blame Racist Whitey, but you cannot make people natively smarter than they are.
Which is why this topic is part of the trance and enchantment, the dogma and superstition around The Great Taboo and the liberal Prime Directive, the Principle of the Naked Emperor.
Which is why going along with it makes Whites, while intelligent enough, but now fatally flawed in character --losing self-confidence and desperately wanting to please people who hold them in contempt, for starters--and thus The Most Foolish People On The Planet.
*Neither Sephardi nor Mizrahi nor Mahgrebi Jews have this kind of IQ. Just the Ashkenazi. (For the Hebraically uninitiated: Sephardi are descended from Iberian Jews, Mizrahi from Jew of West Asia and Mahgrebi from North Africa. The Ashkenazi are the Jews of Europe.
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The picture perfectly describes my opinion of Obama, but I supplement it: the emperor has no clothes, and he is a eunuch.
Do white nationalism and anti-semitism take on new meaning in light of the discrepancy between Ashkenazi and white IQs? When I hear white nationalists talk about Jews, it's almost always understood to refer to Ashkenazi specifically. I wonder if, in an atavistic and reductionistic manner, the hatred white nationalists feel is not at least in part motivated by fear of a group they secretly and/or unwittingly consider superior? That this harkens back to primal fears that early humans had of "superior" creatures like saber-toothed cats, bears, etc.
To use a natural metaphor, whites are a middle-of-the-food-chain species, with other groups generally above and below. The white nationalists can be seen as trying to fend off competition from scavengers, whilst trying to prevent predation from their own predators.
That may be the most politically incorrect thing I have ever written. But I suspect there may be some truth to it.
-Sean
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