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137 sats \ 11 replies \ @anon 20 Aug 2023 \ on: Are there topics you avoid discussing to maintain political correctness? bitcoin
Yes. The fact that average IQ is different across races is enormously taboo, even in right wing circles.
The reason why there aren't very many well brilliant black mathematicians has little to do with bias and discrimination and a lot to do with the fact that blacks are on average less smart than other races. Similarly, the reason why Ashkenazi Jews are overrepresented, is because Ashkenazi Jews are on average more smart. And in particular, that means that there are a lot more Jewish geniuses than black geniuses at the far end of the IQ scales.
Of course, this makes the Nazi's even more evil in my opinion... they were exterminating Germany's best and brightest. Absolutely disgusting. We're lucky Einstein, among many others, got out in time.
Right, also a big taboo.
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There are many kinds of intelligence. IQ does not attempt to measure Body-Kinesthetic, linguistic, Musical, naturalistic, intrapersonal or Interpersonal Intelligence.
Being "smart" does not necessarily mean you are good at math, and/or spacial reasoning alone.
Some of the most brilliant orators, social change makers, cultural icons, musicians, biologists, and game changing athletes would have scored poorly on IQ.
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I think you'll find that the reason for a "lower IQ" in black communities is due to social issues.
Generation upon generation has had less access to education. And even less access to quality education. Eg. More black students go to college on sports scholarships than white students, yet college demographics are overwhelming white. For some black people sports scholarships may be their only way. So evidently it's more about who can afford college being the biggest prohibitor than IQ.
I don't believe it's a genetic thing for one moment. This is a societal problem compounded over generations.
Ask yourself why white parents won't send their kids to schools in black neighborhoods? It's not due to danger, not really, it's because the school is shite. Especially in America where schools are hugely funded by the community rather than just tax. The good schools have money, and they churn out good students. The shit ones don't. So you see, it's about opportunity not IQ. I think your thesis on lower IQs in blacks is fundamentally flawed and you should revisit it through the lens of opportunity and available funds.
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This has been disproven, as whites in the lowest socioeconomic tiers have similar violent crime rates to blacks in the top tier.
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So what you're telling me is that both groups of people in lower socioeconomic states have high crime numbers. Sounds like a socioeconomic issue to me.
You have raised an interesting point about higher social "tiers" as you put it. And I still don't believe it has anything to do with IQ.
You see, when you've been beaten and downtrodden by society repeatedly. You're angry. And rightfully so. Someone in the "top tier" is defensive because ignorant white people treat them as foreigners, as people who don't belong in that tier. I think if you look outside of America you'll find that the top end crime stats decrease rapidly. This shows me it's not a race thing. It's a culture thing. Specifically an American culture thing. The only crime stats that remain consistent worldwide is the lower socioeconomic tier.
Interestingly that Bridgerton show about queen Charlotte touched on it, though the characters are fictional, they showed a very disturbing problem. When the black lords were given proper title and access to whatever it was lords were given access to. It was rejected by the white people in those positions. All had same title and position yet the whites refused to recognise it. This example showed it, although via fictional drama as the medium, exceptionally well.
Like I said. This isn't an IQ problem or a genetic intelligence threshold issue. This is socioeconomic.
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What I’m saying is that yes, there exists a socioeconomic factor to crime, but that blacks always show a crime rate far above that of whites. So much so that even blacks in the top socioeconomic tier have a higher violent crime rate than whites in the very lowest tier, although they are gairly similar at those levels.
If you look at it on a chart, you can see that the black crime rates are constantly significantly above white levels for every socioeconomic tier.
Whether this is due to IQ or other genetic causes (e.g., MAOA-2), is not clear, but it’s clear that the crime differential is not due to socioeconomic causes, since whites are always at lower levels for every tier.
Separately, the average difference in IQ between American blacks and whites of about 15 points is well-researched and has been a constant for over a hundred years of measurement.
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I avoid this because it doesn't merit discussion. Statistics has little bearing on your subjective experience, I know plenty of highly intelligent or successful on merit black people, and I know plenty of stupid ones; just like anyone from any race, background, etc. I engage with them on an individual basis rather than trying to place them in a statistical box. Those who approach this from either the right wing side that seeks to explain or justify the disparities, and those from the left who weaponize the disparities, equally get no attention from me, its a distraction from what the individual has to offer. The disparities exist, I'm rather comfortable not pretending to know why, and knowing that politics by nature decreases the absolute well being of everybody, usually biased towards those with the least political influence.
When you really look into it, you’ll see that Jews’ IQ advantage is in the verbal rather than visuo-spatial/mathematical side. Additionally, they are far over represented in finance, government, etc., even accounting for their IQ curve, because of nepotism and favoritism.
Then you might notice that they disproportionately advocate mass immigration, far left policies, communism, sexual degeneracy and homosexuality, started and run most pornographic businesses, and other inconvenient facts. And you might notice that these issues were very similar in Weimar Germany, and that Hitler was attempting to solve them, and bring back a more healthy society.
And you then might notice that all of the concentration camps where mass killings are alleged lie in the Soviet controlled east, where they could not be verified and Soviet propaganda would have to be trusted without verification. And you might notice that all available global population figures for Jews show not massive loss on the order of six million, or that the number “six million” was used for many years even prior to WWII in numerous newspaper articles seeking sympathy for displaced Jews.
Sorta gets the noggin joggin…
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Ok Nazi...
When you really look into it, you’ll see that Jews’ IQ advantage is in the verbal rather than visuo-spatial/mathematical side. Additionally, they are far over represented in finance, government, etc., even accounting for their IQ curve, because of nepotism and favoritism.
lololol, Israel, a country of just 9 million people, didn't get 13 Nobel Prizes out of nepotism. A full 20% of Nobel Prize winners are Jewish, while only 0.2% of the world population is jewish.
Idiots like you are frankly a perfect example of how unacknowledged genetic and cultural advantages leads to genocidal hate. You can't understand why jews are so amazingly successful, and you're jealous. So you spew out hate and conspiracies.
Same reason why we're seeing an epidemic of anti-Asian hate crimes in the US, perpetrated by blacks. Lots of angry young blacks who hate the fact that another "minority" is far more successful than they are because of insurmountable genetic and cultural advantages. Sure, blacks are over-represented in basketball and running for a different set of genetic advantages... but no-one really cares about success in sports.
FYI, I'm not jewish, nor am I asian. I'm just a relatively average white guy. But I'm not a jealous person and I'm willing to respect talent for what it is.
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I’m not an idiot. I’ve looked into all these issues for many years. My IQ is in the top 0.1% as well.
Obviously, their Nobel prize numbers are high, but appropriate for their IQ averages. Their overrepresentation in the ivy leagues though, is far beyond 20%, and not explainable by IQ.
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he went straight to the ad hom, lol - 3 times!
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