I've assumed since 1995 that the hysterical reaction to "The Bell Curve" was largely, at root, due to a feeling among Jewish intellectuals that if you aren't allowed to notice that blacks average lower IQs, then you are especially not likely to notice that Jews average higher IQs, so then, it is assumed by Jewish intellectuals, you white gentile peasants are less likely to come after the Jews with pitchforks.
But in 29 years, I've never figured out a sure way to test this hypothesis.
Going after Jews with pitchforks would be stupid due to mass intermarriage between Jews and gentiles. The Jews who oppose intermarriage (Orthodox Jews) also on average tend to be duller than the Jews who are more open to intermarriage.
Yeah, it seems like high-achieving groups can suffer just as much as low-achieving groups can. I mean, Ashkenazi Jews—and Eastern Europeans in general—suffered much more at Nazi hands than African-Americans did during Jim Crow. Thousands of blacks were lynched during Jim Crow, but millions of Ashkenazi Jews and even millions of Eastern European gentiles were murdered by the Nazis.
When you think about it, it makes sense because rightoids would be more likely to view smarter minorities as competitors than they would with duller minorities, who can be more easily controlled (indeed, prole minority men have been moving into the MAGA column as of late, simply further confirming this point).
I'm a bit concerned that you're giving a range of 40,000 - 6,000,000 deaths for the Holocaust. Do you only "lean towards the higher number", or do you agree with it?
Yeah, it seems like high-achieving groups can suffer just as much as low-achieving groups can. I mean, Ashkenazi Jews—and Eastern Europeans in general—suffered much more at Nazi hands than African-Americans did during Jim Crow. Thousands of blacks were lynched during Jim Crow, but millions of Ashkenazi Jews and even millions of Eastern European gentiles were murdered by the Nazis.
What right-wing upswell and what backlash against black people? Where does this exist? The Trump campaign strategy is literally to appeal to non-white voters, and in the event they win, I doubt anything will change, at least for the better, it could be that the backlash against Trump will end up ruining the normalization process taking place among liberals. Right now, there is a backlash against DEI and soft on crime policies, mostly from liberals returning to sanity.
EU election results were decent, but it is important to bear in mind that the EU parliament has 720 seats, and that the immigration restrictionist parties are not close to having a majority. As usual, the implementation of good policies on immigration ends up depending on the cooperation of center-right and liberal parties. I do agree that the increase in support for immigration restrictionist parties among young Europeans (in some countries there is a big gender divide and in others not) is reason for optimism. A few years ago, one could be forgiven for thinking that Europeans would only start voting for pro-European parties when the share of ethnic Europeans in the population had fallen below 50%, the fact that some sanity is kicking in long before that is good.
Regarding Twitter, it is important to say that Twitter has never been representative of real life and is even less so now. Twitter usage has declined significantly, so the site is much less important now, and I'm skeptical that Twitter was ever as important as many people claim.
Good point about it being difficult to see trends in any particular US presidential election, but I'll just remind people that when Trump won in 2016, there was talk of states like Maine, Minnesota and Oregon turning red because of Trump's supposed appeal to White voters, that didn't happen, and instead, in 2024 the Trump campaign is running after non-white voters.
I agree that Chris Rufo played a role in the fight against DEI, but Rufo's strategy was always limited because it was based on Republican politicians controlling states and passing anti-DEI laws, and it was always a question whether it would even change the culture of those states. The fact that universities are reinstating SAT use and abandoning political statements is a good sign that some liberal elites are regretting the disaster of 2020, part of it is just the harsh reality of things like that many students who didn't submit SAT scores are having a hard time at elite universities. On the crime issue, this is even clearer, because voters in Democratic primaries are voting against weak-on-crime prosecutors, and in some places Democratic legislators are returning to criminalizing crime.
The resentment towards blacks is just and righteous. Happily, beyond policy, i doubt it results in anything more than rare dylan roof type stochastic terroristic violence
I've assumed since 1995 that the hysterical reaction to "The Bell Curve" was largely, at root, due to a feeling among Jewish intellectuals that if you aren't allowed to notice that blacks average lower IQs, then you are especially not likely to notice that Jews average higher IQs, so then, it is assumed by Jewish intellectuals, you white gentile peasants are less likely to come after the Jews with pitchforks.
But in 29 years, I've never figured out a sure way to test this hypothesis.
Going after Jews with pitchforks would be stupid due to mass intermarriage between Jews and gentiles. The Jews who oppose intermarriage (Orthodox Jews) also on average tend to be duller than the Jews who are more open to intermarriage.
Some more examples: https://x.com/powerfultakes/status/1804673594477158903
Consistent pattern of people with rightoid type personalities killing the smarts of their societies.
Yeah, it seems like high-achieving groups can suffer just as much as low-achieving groups can. I mean, Ashkenazi Jews—and Eastern Europeans in general—suffered much more at Nazi hands than African-Americans did during Jim Crow. Thousands of blacks were lynched during Jim Crow, but millions of Ashkenazi Jews and even millions of Eastern European gentiles were murdered by the Nazis.
When you think about it, it makes sense because rightoids would be more likely to view smarter minorities as competitors than they would with duller minorities, who can be more easily controlled (indeed, prole minority men have been moving into the MAGA column as of late, simply further confirming this point).
I'm a bit concerned that you're giving a range of 40,000 - 6,000,000 deaths for the Holocaust. Do you only "lean towards the higher number", or do you agree with it?
The range is part of the joke.
Seems like you missed this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_on_Fire_(book)
Yeah, it seems like high-achieving groups can suffer just as much as low-achieving groups can. I mean, Ashkenazi Jews—and Eastern Europeans in general—suffered much more at Nazi hands than African-Americans did during Jim Crow. Thousands of blacks were lynched during Jim Crow, but millions of Ashkenazi Jews and even millions of Eastern European gentiles were murdered by the Nazis.
OK. You got me - I subscribed. Wonderful list here that I had not seen before.
What people in the West support genocide exactly? Doesn't seem like a significant number of people.
What are the racial and ethnic profiles perpetrators of violence against minorities?
What right-wing upswell and what backlash against black people? Where does this exist? The Trump campaign strategy is literally to appeal to non-white voters, and in the event they win, I doubt anything will change, at least for the better, it could be that the backlash against Trump will end up ruining the normalization process taking place among liberals. Right now, there is a backlash against DEI and soft on crime policies, mostly from liberals returning to sanity.
Fair points.
EU election results were decent, but it is important to bear in mind that the EU parliament has 720 seats, and that the immigration restrictionist parties are not close to having a majority. As usual, the implementation of good policies on immigration ends up depending on the cooperation of center-right and liberal parties. I do agree that the increase in support for immigration restrictionist parties among young Europeans (in some countries there is a big gender divide and in others not) is reason for optimism. A few years ago, one could be forgiven for thinking that Europeans would only start voting for pro-European parties when the share of ethnic Europeans in the population had fallen below 50%, the fact that some sanity is kicking in long before that is good.
Regarding Twitter, it is important to say that Twitter has never been representative of real life and is even less so now. Twitter usage has declined significantly, so the site is much less important now, and I'm skeptical that Twitter was ever as important as many people claim.
Good point about it being difficult to see trends in any particular US presidential election, but I'll just remind people that when Trump won in 2016, there was talk of states like Maine, Minnesota and Oregon turning red because of Trump's supposed appeal to White voters, that didn't happen, and instead, in 2024 the Trump campaign is running after non-white voters.
I agree that Chris Rufo played a role in the fight against DEI, but Rufo's strategy was always limited because it was based on Republican politicians controlling states and passing anti-DEI laws, and it was always a question whether it would even change the culture of those states. The fact that universities are reinstating SAT use and abandoning political statements is a good sign that some liberal elites are regretting the disaster of 2020, part of it is just the harsh reality of things like that many students who didn't submit SAT scores are having a hard time at elite universities. On the crime issue, this is even clearer, because voters in Democratic primaries are voting against weak-on-crime prosecutors, and in some places Democratic legislators are returning to criminalizing crime.
The resentment towards blacks is just and righteous. Happily, beyond policy, i doubt it results in anything more than rare dylan roof type stochastic terroristic violence