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From 1984:
As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of The Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs — to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.
From the New York Times:
Bret Stephens’ latest column (https://t.co/6ECSD0oWe8), which argues that culture and history drive Jewish achievements, has been edited to remove a reference to a paper widely disputed as advancing a racist hypothesis. We’ve added the following editors’ note to the column. pic.twitter.com/Aj7eU3Fce2
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) December 29, 2019
What’s in red is what the NYT memoryholed:
https://twitter.com/PereGrimmer/status/1211436097101877248
“Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.” — 1984
There, I explained it to you plainly. If you don't see this, it's because you are trying to deflect our attention away from the truth. Look, over there - a KKK goy!
As I write this the MSM is hard at work attempting to get 'the narrative' back on track despite the two recent setbacks and they're using the recent church shooting of yesterday to do it.
Everything from one of the two victims being Black to the town's name ('White Settlement') and it's origins is being heavily played up. Every 'minority' member of the church is being interviewed.
The now identified 43 year old shooter was White and had a shaved bald head (ie he at least looks like a skinhead).
What more could be asked?
True, the facts (aka truth) might not ultimately fit the narrative much at all (so very often the case) as more information comes out, but the self described so called 'progressives' haven't cared about that precious commodity in a long, long, time.
Meanwhile, never miss an opporunity.
"The Nazi is using the Black as muscle against you!"
How many racists speak !Kung?
Of all the craziness encapsulated in that headline, I think the "gives birth to partner's baby using sperm donor" line is the worst. It's all a denial of reality, but that's on another level.
Harpending’s theory of voodoo forces might have hit too close to home for the NYT.
The comments on that tweet just make me sad. Apparently genes have no effect on human intelligence or behavior and to even suggest so is forbidden. To actually engage in scientific research on the subject makes you literally Hitler.
But they f*cking love science.
A hive of scum, villany, self-promotion and sheer idiocy. Blueticks congregate there. You must be careful.
The NYT Tweet is mainly interesting because it forcefully pushes the idea that Jews are either genetically inferior or at best equal to anyone else in all respects. This is clearly the case, Jews are vastly underrepresented in all manner of domains.
Also, White Quantum Supremacy explains why DNA twists into a double helix.
Aha – that’s the icing on the cake of your stretch of posts on this subject – kudos! – In a way, the NYT is working for iSteve – and even exclusively – double kudos!
Except for that, I go on a bit ironic:
Jews are not special at all. Their achievements aren’t, too. It’s not nicer to be a Jew than – being an Eskimo. Ok, there might be no Jewish Eskimos, but that would then be just another sober reason that the world does indeed need more diversity to spread more of the real différence = sameness into the arctic winter. Love & Peace everybody!
https://www.darkmoon.me/2012/world-iq-figures-a-complete-chart-with-notes-and-comments/
“one of the paper’s authors, who died in 2016, promoted racist views”.
The racist is so vile the NYT cannot say his name out loud.
“Promoting racists views” is so vile you must not hear these views.
What a conundrum for the cultural gatekeepers – ascribe Jewish success to superior cognitive ability or superior cultural traits? Either way, what does that say about society’s least successful groups?
The real answer, of course, is that in addition to decent IQs and a culture that values success, Jews aggressively, assiduously, religiously help their own to the detriment of other groups, while, at the same time, literally making a federal case out of it whenever the goyim try using the same tactic. And why shouldn't they do this if they can get away with it? They are not encumbered by a Christian sense of right and wrong--which Nietzsche, of course, called a slave morality.
That’s the story anyways.
We have always been at war with Oceania.
Steve can you let us know what paper it was?
Scientific method: Gather information, draw logical inferences, develop hypotheses based on logical inferences, design and carry out tests to see if hypothesis is consistent with observation, publish findings to subject them to valid criticism, arrive at tentative conclusion.
NYT method: Develop conclusion first and work back from that. Accuse those who disagree as “racists”. Deny basic facts. Change the subject and obscure discussion. Fire and demote persons who do not comply. Hire and promote those who agree with the preformed conclusion. Promulgate lies.
NYT Rule # 2: Any scientist whose findings disagree with the NYT Narrative is a racist.
It would seem that without the reference to CC&H the article is mere twaddle, thus making the edited version much more worthy of being printed in the failing NY Times.
OT but FYI:
Five years on, the lessons from the Rolling Stone rape story
Shortly thereafter, the story of Rolling Stone’s reporting failure would eclipse the larger problem of the systematic abuse and mistreatment of women across college fraternities and beyond – even as it would help inspire a new commitment to tenacious sexual assault reporting down the road.
Not that anyone would have predicted that at the time of publication.
When I have brought this issue up in various comments sections, the hasbara invariably respond with some variation of the “superior cultural traits” argument. Why are Jews so ridiculously overrepresented in the Ivy League? Because they study harder than the goyim complainers who are sitting around playing video games. It’s just that simple, you see.
The real answer, of course, is that in addition to decent IQs and a culture that values success, Jews aggressively, assiduously, religiously help their own to the detriment of other groups, while, at the same time, literally making a federal case out of it whenever the goyim try using the same tactic. And why shouldn’t they do this if they can get away with it? They are not encumbered by a Christian sense of right and wrong–which Nietzsche, of course, called a slave morality.
Knock it off, Brett! It’s a shanda fur die goyim!
Here’s a paper by Richard Lynn and David Longley.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016028960600033X?via%3Dihub
Of course, I’ve heard Richard Lynn referred to as a “white supremacist”, so a lot of people will disregard this research for that reason. I’m trying to find a more recent study by a less controversial author. I think Jon Entine wrote a book about this. Maybe he has original research in there.
Desperate to prevent noticing differences, continue to extract resources from productive labor industry, agriculture.
This is life in a theocracy. They censored his column because of blasphemy.
There is no paper of record.
Just as a fiat monetary system requires a hyperexponentially increasing supply of currency to sustain itself, progressive religion requires a hyperexponentially increasing number of lies.
Just for curiosity’s sake, what is the plural of kudos? I hope it’s something fun, like Cyclopēs, octopodēs, or enemata.
This abomination has not infected the civilised English-speaking world because the word is rarely used (although it's used thousands of times more frequently than it is deserved).
κύδεϊ (kudei) is a half-decent guess at a plural form of the original (κῦδος - glory; renown), but κύδεϊ has been used in contexts where it's properly interpreted as singular - e.g, in Iliad 1:405[1] In this context Κρονίωνι is probably better translated as "the son of Kronos"
Harpending, a racist? WTF, who knew? Has Stephen’s chickened out too?
They’re not chickens; they mean to be cocks of the walk. Time to relieve them of their flocks.
In all fairness, Ashkenazi’s are the one legitimate, self-documented case of Magic Dirt / Tragic Dirt (MDTD).
In Anglo countries, it’s “we succeeded despite 2000 years of persecution. Suck it and die, goyem!”
In Israel, it’s “hmmmm….okay, so we’re not exactly hitting our existential benchmarks, but understand we don’t have many natural resources. The natural resources are holding us back, mmmmkay?”
In Anglo countries, it’s “we invented nuclear physics!”
In Israel, it’s “hmmmm….okay, so we couldn’t exactly figure nuclear physics out, so we stole what we needed from the US for our nuclear weapons. Granted, South Africa didn’t have to do this, but we don’t have as many natural resources as resource-rich South Africa, mmmkay?”’
It goes on and on.
So technically, there is one case of MDTD. Granted, another explanation is the institutions of Magic Anglo Nations (MAN), but that would be an old trope about parasites and what not.
So let’s say it’s The Dirt.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0005/The%20Protocol%20of%20Sevres%201956%20Anatomy%20of%20a%20War%20Plot.html
This was a side agreement to the Protocol of Sèvres, which was a secret agreement between Israel, Britain and France to overthrow Nasser and get the Suez Canal back. The US strongly disapproved of this plan.
You could also have made the point that in their natural habitat (the hovels of Eastern Europe) the Ashkenazi somehow failed to fully exploit their legendary[1] genius.
A huge concentration of seichel and pilpul, basically left to do its own thing for several centuries... somehow failing to invent calculus, electricity, space travel, the internal combustion engine, or general computing.
It's almost as if environment matters. A lot.
If you're fully σ "more genius" than the goyim, the adversity of Eastern European shitholes is enough to drag you down so far that you contribute less than the Lithuanian peasantry.
But adverse environment can't possibly be a reason for African (or African-American) underachievement.
One rule for some...
[1] Legendary, mythical... pick one.
https://youtu.be/4xt-Kn3DYEI
The only difference between groups is hair.
How many of the inventors of the South African nuclear bomb were Jewish?
Bush II was just following FDR's precedent in falsifying an opponent's WMD threat. How was Germany going to go nuclear without Jewish scientists?
This a classic piece on Jewish intelligence by Scott Alexander. Well worth reading and re-reading.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-considered-as-hungarian-high-school-science-fair-project/
https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1211458519175553024
For those wondering about the excised study, you can see the original version of the article here.
http://archive.is/7UEFZ
The 2005 study in question is The Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence
by Gregory Cochran, Jason Hardy, and Henry Harpending
Except for that, I go on a bit ironic:
Jews are not special at all. Their achievements aren't, too. It's not nicer to be a Jew than - being an Eskimo. Ok, there might be no Jewish Eskimos, but that would then be just another sober reason that the world does indeed need more diversity to spread more of the real différence = sameness into the arctic winter. Love & Peace everybody!
I can’t find the table now but I once asked here if anyone knew the average IQ of the Inuit . I found a table that listed the Inuit as the third highest average IQ . I assumed that the environment being so harsh would select for a high IQ . I can’t find any info on desert nomads but the average IQs of the Middle Eastern and African countries where they reside is low . However the average IQ of the central Asian peoples is in the 90’s . The average IQ in Turkey is 90 and the Ottoman Turks came out of Central Asia from a nomadic way of life in a harsh desert environment . But then the Afghan’s average is IQ 83 , inbreeding maybe ? I always figured that a high level of civilization would tend to depress IQ as the struggle to survive was no longer as much of a challenge but that doesn’t seem to be the case . OTOH we’ve only been subsidizing retards for less than a century so I guess the jury is still out on that question . Anyway here’s a table of world IQs for you to peruse :
https://www.darkmoon.me/2012/world-iq-figures-a-complete-chart-with-notes-and-comments/
NYT method: Develop conclusion first and work back from that. Accuse those who disagree as "racists". Deny basic facts. Change the subject and obscure discussion. Fire and demote persons who do not comply. Hire and promote those who agree with the preformed conclusion. Promulgate lies.
NYT Rule # 1: Science is only valid if done by non-racists.
NYT Rule # 2: Any scientist whose findings disagree with the NYT Narrative is a racist.
Thanks.
In fairness, Jews were largely responsible for developing the A-bomb in the first place. And then they were also largely responsible for handing the technology to the Soviet Union.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-considered-as-hungarian-high-school-science-fair-project/
Atheocracy.
There is no paper of record.
They’re not chickens; they mean to be cocks of the walk. Time to relieve them of their flocks.
https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1211525943795208192?s=20
Erin Biba = I be brain!
One of the best.
Crap. I meant to click on LOL.
Israel is ranked #22 on the Human Development Index, above Spain, France, and Italy, which isn’t too shabby, particularly when you consider that Israel is only about a third Ashkenazi. If it were all Ashkenazi, it would probably score in the top 5.
“Memoryholed”?
More like Cornholed.
“Superior cultural traits” translates to environmental factors. So what it says is they haven’t been given a chance or, in some cases such as descendants of slaves, were actively denied a chance by others. White males, through slavery and Jim Crow, fostered the African American culture. They, not blacks, are responsible for it.
That’s the story anyways.
I guess the alternative, accurate title (Lesbian couple use sperm donor to have baby) just wouldn’t get the clicks.
Of all the craziness encapsulated in that headline, I think the “gives birth to partner’s baby using sperm donor” line is the worst. It’s all a denial of reality, but that’s on another level.
kudos is the singular, nominative form of an ancient, 2nd declension Greek noun. The nominative plural form would be kudoi.
Erin, we know who it was – it was a shvartse. It’s really not that complicated. Shvartses really don’t like Jews. This particular shvartse was crazy, so he was willing to do what other shvartses only think about doing, usually. White people had nothing to do with this attack. There is never going to be solidarity between Jews, who are mostly rich and smart, and shvartses who are poor and dumb.
There, I explained it to you plainly. If you don’t see this, it’s because you are trying to deflect our attention away from the truth. Look, over there – a KKK goy!
This is just a lie. Israel was given (did not steal) most of its nuclear technology by the French, who were its allies at the time (at a time (1956) when the US government establishment was rather cold to Israel). Ostensibly the reactor was for “peaceful purposes” but it was obvious that the Israelis were going to us it to build weapons.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0005/The%20Protocol%20of%20Sevres%201956%20Anatomy%20of%20a%20War%20Plot.html
This was a side agreement to the Protocol of Sèvres, which was a secret agreement between Israel, Britain and France to overthrow Nasser and get the Suez Canal back. The US strongly disapproved of this plan.
With this victory Twitter has now begun the process of preparing for the cancellation of Cochran. His gay germ theory is being closely examined for crimethink in various accounts. Cochran is being very quiet now. If he can hold out for two or three weeks, the storm will pass.
I notice that his qualifications are being questioned: He only has a physics degree, no biology or whatever degree. To me, a physics degree means you’re really smart. A biology degree, less so, A gender studies degree much, much less so. Being really smart is more important than having had lower and upper division courses in a subject. Smart people can read books, track down experts and ask for help, publish and absorb feedback, and so on.
But this silo-ization of knowledge and expertise is something that helps the progressive left, since it depends on credentials, the issuance of which at the graduate level is coming more and more under the control of progressives, and dumb people are getting credentials. Smart guy? But what about your DIE statement? What have you done for diversity?
You might know that UCLA has the world’s most extreme diversity administration, under Jerry Kang. UCLA law professor Stephen Bainbridge is up for a merit raise and whenever your status changes in any way at UCLA you have to submit a DIE statement. Conservative Bainbridge submitted one emphasizing viewpoint and religious diversity. It will be interesting to watch what happens.
https://www.professorbainbridge.com/professorbainbridgecom/2019/12/i-submit-herewith-my-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-statement-for-my-merit-raise-at-uclaw.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silage
Whatever you call it, silos kill:
http://www.startribune.com/joint-funeral-planned-for-3-family-members-killed-in-silo-accident/566541942/
https://twitter.com/JimDMiller/status/1211668918533791745
By “white supremacy” she means white people. Simple as that.
Why do so many woke shills use hyperbolic modifiers such as “massively”, “incredibly”, “totally”, “completely”, etc? Of course, Trump does too. In both cases they’re a sign of obfuscation and unsupported claims.
In Yanklish (e.g., Miriam-Webster-world) the singular of kudos is … kudo.
This abomination has not infected the civilised English-speaking world because the word is rarely used (although it’s used thousands of times more frequently than it is deserved).
κύδεϊ (kudei) is a half-decent guess at a plural form of the original (κῦδος – glory; renown), but κύδεϊ has been used in contexts where it’s properly interpreted as singular – e.g, in Iliad 1:405
[1] In this context Κρονίωνι is probably better translated as “the son of Kronos“
The 2005 study in question is The Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence
by Gregory Cochran, Jason Hardy, and Henry Harpending
If I remember rightly that study became a chapter in this book. I wonder how long it will be before Amazon stops selling it?
Well spotted.
You could also have made the point that in their natural habitat (the hovels of Eastern Europe) the Ashkenazi somehow failed to fully exploit their legendary[1] genius.
A huge concentration of seichel and pilpul, basically left to do its own thing for several centuries… somehow failing to invent calculus, electricity, space travel, the internal combustion engine, or general computing.
It’s almost as if environment matters. A lot.
If you’re fully σ “more genius” than the goyim, the adversity of Eastern European shitholes is enough to drag you down so far that you contribute less than the Lithuanian peasantry.
But adverse environment can’t possibly be a reason for African (or African-American) underachievement.
One rule for some…
[1] Legendary, mythical… pick one.
So, 1984 might have actually happened in 1984, but we can’t be sure because everything is continually retconned?
Saying Jews are successful due to genes and IQ is much more acceptable than saying they are a tight knit tribe that covertly cooperates to out compete less organized opponents.
Allow me to summarize the reader comments over at the Times twitter feed:
A Witch! Burn him!
NYT Rule # 2: Any scientist whose findings disagree with the NYT Narrative is a racist.
I guess the Stark Effect isn’t a real thing because Johannes Stark was a Nazi. And junction transistors don’t actually work because they were co-invented by William Shockley.
It would be easier to live in this theocracy if the official religion didn’t change on a weekly basis.
Just as a fiat monetary system requires a hyperexponentially increasing supply of currency to sustain itself, progressive religion requires a hyperexponentially increasing number of lies.
I wonder if the Times will go back and delete this…
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/science/researchers-say-intelligence-and-diseases-may-be-linked-in.html
https://www.darkmoon.me/2012/world-iq-figures-a-complete-chart-with-notes-and-comments/
Eskimo IQs are around 90, higher than Africans but lower than whites or Chinese. The key factor driving intelligence is the seasonality of food supply, giving a huge survival advantage to people able to grow, preserve, and defend food. Eskimos grow nothing and hunt year-round; they live like nomadic African hunters but at a much lower population density.
“Earlier versions of many articles we published used logic. After publication, the editors learned that Aristotle, the founder of the discipline of formal logic, promoted pro-slavery views. We have removed references to logic from our articles.!
#225, your post jogged my memory of all of the mansions Jewish diamond traders had “abandoned” in South Africa when things got dicey a couple decades back. For a while there were quite a few YouTube videos promoting sales of these mansions, and then came the subsequent sob stories by the new owners; most related to personal safety/fearing for life issues:
There, I explained it to you plainly. If you don't see this, it's because you are trying to deflect our attention away from the truth. Look, over there - a KKK goy!
An obvious question: why don’t you say this to Erin?
That’s what actual courage looks like, given the context anyway.
P.S. Here is the link again for context. Thanks, Anon337.
https://www.professorbainbridge.com/professorbainbridgecom/2019/12/i-submit-herewith-my-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-statement-for-my-merit-raise-at-uclaw.html
This abomination has not infected the civilised English-speaking world because the word is rarely used (although it's used thousands of times more frequently than it is deserved).
κύδεϊ (kudei) is a half-decent guess at a plural form of the original (κῦδος - glory; renown), but κύδεϊ has been used in contexts where it's properly interpreted as singular - e.g, in Iliad 1:405[1] In this context Κρονίωνι is probably better translated as "the son of Kronos"
Right? Instead, a single pair of pants is now called a “pant”. That’s the deluxe word. Blouses and shirts? Sounds racist and elitist. Everything’s called “tops” and “bottoms” now.
At least until they figure out that those terms clearly connote supremacy, that is.
Thinking differently and working for the NYT are seemingly incompatible. Surely Stephens will quit the paper in protest, like he quit Twitter back in August.
Lockean,
The term that, for lack of a better term, “irks” me the most is never. As in we will do this, that, or the other thing, so that whatever occurred, will absolutely never happen again; as if that absolute objective was even remotely possible to achieve. Whatever happened to try to, make every effort/attempt at, take every known measure to prevent: it from happening again.
Like "North Korea's nuclear program is unacceptable. "
Or Russia's annexation of Crimea is unacceptable. Or China's treatment of Uighurs (or manipulation of the currency) is unacceptable. Or Syria's use of chemical weapons is unacceptable.
What does that mean?! All these things happened... and, in spite of their supposed unacceptabilty they were ... accepted.
That is, nothing much changed with regard to the actors who took these actions.
Yeah, Hypno, good take. Chess-Playing by TPTB? Sharing For Safety? Because overall, nukes have been good to us, Post-Japan, ooops.. Given what we know about the psychos of that age on the U.S. side, that was for humanity a very good thing that things were shared. The Soviets having nukes kept our psychos honest, although I hear there are assholes at RAND this very day who think it’s winnable. For whom, I don’t know. It isn’t even survivable. They used to drill us on gear and showers and masks for how to keep going after the ship is nuked. How to clean up, stay safe and keep launching those planes.. It’s laughable. Still, I always thought that when all the major players are armed, everyone behaves. Nukes going off ruin everyone’s day. Even for those who can hide. Where nukes are concerned, you can never really go home again, heh..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pripyat
Whereas both Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been important cities for close to a century before the A-bombs were dropped.
On the other hand, I am not sure I'd want to run those odds again.
The cynical interpretation is that Jack isn’t really interested in combating anti-whitism, he’s just here to pose as a good guy, a “race-realist,” someone who gets it, a friend you could count on – so if you want more people like him, you should really do something about all the awful “anti-semitism” on here, see.
That’s the story anyways.
The obvious solution is to integrate schwartzes into Jewish schools. There will be loads of new Black attorneys, media moguls, doctors and real estate developers in no time!
There, I explained it to you plainly. If you don't see this, it's because you are trying to deflect our attention away from the truth. Look, over there - a KKK goy!
Tell it to Martin Luther King’s backers and the creators of the NAACP.
Please provide me some examples of how blacks helped Jews in return. It's always been a one way street. And as soon as the blacks in the NAACP found their footing, they kicked the Jews out and King's protege, Jessie Jackson called them "Hymies".
The NY Times has been covering up black anti-semitism for decades. When blacks in Brooklyn staged an anti-Semitic pogrom, the NY Times spun it as ""Hasidim and blacks clashed with each other"
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/08/the-hard-truth-about-the-crown-heights-riots/243448/
While reconstruction was a bear, Hiroshima and Nagasaki are thriving cities today. Pripyat near Chernobyl could have been rehabilitated, but the Soviets had so much real estate, they abandoned it. Besides, Pripyat was never really an important city apart from the Chernobyl facility, whose workers lived there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pripyat
Whereas both Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been important cities for close to a century before the A-bombs were dropped.
He won’t get the raise. He’ll be lucky if they don’t make a serious attempt to fire him.
The real answer, of course, is that in addition to decent IQs and a culture that values success, Jews aggressively, assiduously, religiously help their own to the detriment of other groups, while, at the same time, literally making a federal case out of it whenever the goyim try using the same tactic. And why shouldn't they do this if they can get away with it? They are not encumbered by a Christian sense of right and wrong--which Nietzsche, of course, called a slave morality.
Thing is, it was actually true 50 years ago (though of course there were no video games), and is now true of Asians. Nowadays legacy admissions seem most important for Jews.
Two of the groups I find most insufferable unfortunately seem to include almost everybody: Those who think Jews are responsible for all the world’s problems, and those who think that Jews are too sainted for any of them ever to do anything wrong. Indeed, trying to occupy the middle of the road between these two polarities is a good way to get run over. This despite the fact that if there is any reason to think Jews are more moral than other groups, I have yet to see the evidence. So, Stephens is being just as irrational as the NYT.
Regarding the NYT, the proper question to ask these geniuses is if Harpending were to declare two and two to be four, would it become false since it was said by a “racist”? Or would it become the case that arithmetic is no longer worth knowing if “racists” were to believe in such things.
In saner times, what the NYT did would have been dismissed as a violation of the logical fallacy called poisoning the well:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well
Being able to get away with such basic logical fallacies is what makes liberals so smart and sophisticated; it’s something we mere mortals could never get away with, which raises another question: Is this part of the NYT’s liberal privilege or their white privilege?
They’re not chickens; they mean to be cocks of the walk. Time to relieve them of their flocks.
She caved:
Lol. Good luck with that Claire:
They think they can rule in Hell. Fools.
“South Africans have this thing better organised than any other country, particularly America."
She said that in 1970.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jun/03/margaret-court-astounding-champion-who-found-god-and-lost-the-respect-of-a-nation
Could Stephens have done this intentionally, to give Harpending’s ideas a platform? He knew it wouldn’t last on the NYT website but it’s the only talking point of the entire article. Now people may search out and read who otherwise wouldn’t.
Could Stephens be that sly?
Looks like the latest NY synagogue attack was by a member of Schwartze Meinhof.
https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1211525943795208192?s=20
If the weatherman predicts showers, does that make him a “rainist”? Or is he a “rain realist”?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers
Hakuna Matata
Israelis still invent a lot of stuff compared to the regional standard. Like that juice-carbonating machine. All the Arab geniuses got the hell away from their “dirt” a long time ago, regardless of formal occupier on the nameplate. Current local stock there is, to paraphrase the movie “Twins,” the shi’ite that was left over.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/21/against-murderism/
No, you tell that to Louis Farrakhan.
Please provide me some examples of how blacks helped Jews in return. It’s always been a one way street. And as soon as the blacks in the NAACP found their footing, they kicked the Jews out and King’s protege, Jessie Jackson called them “Hymies”.
The NY Times has been covering up black anti-semitism for decades. When blacks in Brooklyn staged an anti-Semitic pogrom, the NY Times spun it as “”Hasidim and blacks clashed with each other”
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/08/the-hard-truth-about-the-crown-heights-riots/243448/
How many whites have been killed, raped, robbed, beaten, etc. by blacks since the "civil rights" era? It's a number nobody has the nerve to calculate. Not to mention destruction of white property values, ruining of schools, etc. etc.
Jews got exactly what they wanted from blacks.
If you are really trying to maintain a fair middle position, I don’t think this is a fair example. Harpending “the racist” was not expounding on math, he was expounding on racial matters. Therefore his pronouncements in this area, while not automatically false or not worth knowing, should at least be regarded in light of his known biases.
Now this is equally true of blank-slatists. They barely bother to disguise the fact that they let their political and philosophical biases influence the “scientific” pronouncements. However, since their political and philosophical biases are “good” and not “evil”, this is A-OK – this is called having your heart in the right place. If they make a scientific error, it’s with the best of intentions. Yes you might have twisted the data on global warming, but you meant well – you were only trying to save the planet. It’s only bad when you let the wrong beliefs influence your scientific work.
So what if what we're talking about here isn't math? I only gave a simple math problem to illustrate a point. There are two kinds of knowledge: personal opinion, or subjective knowledge, upon which we are the world's foremost experts on our own opinions; we can't be wrong. Are we talking about Harpending's opinions here?
Assuming not, we're talking about the second type of knowledge, which is rational and objective. The point of the logical fallacy poisoning the well is that objective statements are true no matter who makes them, and regardless of how unpopular they may be.
What liberals do is to seamlessly blend the two, something called hyperreality:
What was the first country to develop a nuclear weapon without a) a significant Jewish population (US, USSR, UK, France, Israel, South Africa) or b) half a billion people (China, India) with a mathematical tradition?
Bush II was just following FDR’s precedent in falsifying an opponent’s WMD threat. How was Germany going to go nuclear without Jewish scientists?
Well, according to author Thomas Powers , they almost did.
They did get assistance from the West (both licit and illicit):
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/forget-north-korea-pakistans-nuclear-weapons-program-truly-terrifying-45632
Mrs Court was Bobby Riggs’s first female opponent, before BJ King. Unlike those two, she wasn’t a publicity hog who just happened to play tennis. Why she agreed to such a pointless and tasteless stunt is hard to comprehend.
“South Africans have this thing better organised than any other country, particularly America.”
She said that in 1970.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jun/03/margaret-court-astounding-champion-who-found-god-and-lost-the-respect-of-a-nation
But they f*cking love science.
One of the ironies is that it was so-called “liberals” who were upset over the issue of teaching so-called “Creationism” as opposed to Darwinianism even though they themselves would cringe at the thought of the logical consequences surrounding a key tenet of Darwinianism, namely “Natural Selection.” As a result, they have had to twist their minds into pretzels in trying to square a circle. And we are seeing the results play out in all their absurdity.
It can make him professor emeritus at the U of Illinois, though at he ghetto branch, not the flagship campus:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers
Please provide me some examples of how blacks helped Jews in return. It's always been a one way street. And as soon as the blacks in the NAACP found their footing, they kicked the Jews out and King's protege, Jessie Jackson called them "Hymies".
The NY Times has been covering up black anti-semitism for decades. When blacks in Brooklyn staged an anti-Semitic pogrom, the NY Times spun it as ""Hasidim and blacks clashed with each other"
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/08/the-hard-truth-about-the-crown-heights-riots/243448/
As an insurance investigator I worked for a company that insured many buildings in Bed-Sty, Brooklyn, and in Harlem. All were virtually without exception absolute dumps! And virtually without exception they were owned by Jews who milked the tenants for as much as they could get. When one of the tenants would sue them the building owners would say “Ahh, those schvartzers are animals. They never pay their rent.” And here’s the irony: most of the plaintiff tenants were repped by Jew ambulance-chasers, with most of the so-called “accidents” being of the bogus variety.
https://landlordwatchlist.com/landlords
My favorite is #32, Sigmund Freund. Average Number of Open HPD Violations: 482. What a mensch!
Bush II was just following FDR's precedent in falsifying an opponent's WMD threat. How was Germany going to go nuclear without Jewish scientists?
“How was Germany going to go nuclear without Jewish scientists?”
Well, according to author Thomas Powers , they almost did.
“The fermentation and storage process is called ensilage, ensiling or silaging…”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silage
Whatever you call it, silos kill:
http://www.startribune.com/joint-funeral-planned-for-3-family-members-killed-in-silo-accident/566541942/
https://twitter.com/JayMan471/status/1211596229978841089
https://twitter.com/JayMan471/status/1211596659928551426
https://twitter.com/JayMan471/status/1211596941810905088
https://twitter.com/JayMan471/status/1211599149147312129
So – none of this stuff is Henry Harpending’s problem. Seen in the light of JayMan’s tweets, it’s hard to grasp, that a rational controversy over these things amongst educated people could arise.
(It’s almost like debating that the Virgin Mary gave birth to a child – – – as a scientific problem).
You have a generation (at least) who have been taught that all that matters is power and all else is merely a means toward that end. The only way this ends is to change the motivations upon which their motivated reasoning, such as it is, operates.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers
He and Bernardine live about three blocks from me. I’m glad I never saw them in person. Ditto for Louis Farrakhan who also lives nearby
That is terrific. It will be interesting to see how it plays out.
P.S. Here is the link again for context. Thanks, Anon337.
https://www.professorbainbridge.com/professorbainbridgecom/2019/12/i-submit-herewith-my-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-statement-for-my-merit-raise-at-uclaw.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016028960600033X?via%3Dihub
Of course, I've heard Richard Lynn referred to as a "white supremacist", so a lot of people will disregard this research for that reason. I'm trying to find a more recent study by a less controversial author. I think Jon Entine wrote a book about this. Maybe he has original research in there.
Even to conduct such research is to be a “white supremacist” let alone come up with troubling results. Thus all such research must be disregarded.
Yeah, legacy, mensches in every Admissions office, etc. What I said, basically. Unz has does extraordinary work documenting this. And I highly doubt Jews were so disproportionately represented in the Ivy League 50 years ago. There were also a helluva lot of highly-motivated, high-I.Q., studious gentiles in America back then, too.
To take one example- in our boomer posters' lifetimes, Northwestern's gone from being openly hostile to Jewish applicants to being a place where goyishe kops might be advised to cultivate that weird effeminate creaky voice nebbish suburban Jews have.
Bush II was just following FDR's precedent in falsifying an opponent's WMD threat. How was Germany going to go nuclear without Jewish scientists?
Pakistan? I would add North Korea, but supposedly they were assisted by Pakistan.
They did get assistance from the West (both licit and illicit):
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/forget-north-korea-pakistans-nuclear-weapons-program-truly-terrifying-45632
Bret’s a climate skeptic, so the Times has gotten a lot of flak for running his columns. I’d imagine he’s on a short leash, so he’ll probably be fired pretty soon.
You can only tamper with the Narrative so much.
The real answer, of course, is that in addition to decent IQs and a culture that values success, Jews aggressively, assiduously, religiously help their own to the detriment of other groups, while, at the same time, literally making a federal case out of it whenever the goyim try using the same tactic. And why shouldn't they do this if they can get away with it? They are not encumbered by a Christian sense of right and wrong--which Nietzsche, of course, called a slave morality.
“The real answer, of course, is that in addition to decent IQs and a culture that values success, Jews aggressively, assiduously, religiously help their own to the detriment of other groups”
Many of the comments are demanding to know why Stephens was hired in the first place. The reason they decided? He was married to two former editors and is a neocon. They’re blind to their own tribal nature because on its face they ultimately have no problem with it.
So it would be like Ireland.
Great post. Orwell was if anything prescient.
As a related aside I’ve recently discovered the multiple versions of 1984 on YouTube. All for the most part are good and interesting in their way, though I am somewhat partial to Michael Radford’s version filmed in and around London during the year 1984 itself.
Westinghouse produced a made for television version in 1953 starring Eddie Albert and Lorne Greene, with Robert Culp being the telescreen voice. Martin Landau has an uncredited bit part while ‘Goldstein’ name has been changed to ‘Cassandra’.
BBC produced it’s famous TV version in 1954 with Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasance. Julia in both the BBC and Westinghouse versions was a Jewish actress. The ‘enemy’ Eurasian soldier looks more than anything to be an everyday WWII era US GI.
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip claimed to have watched it. The BBC version made quite a splash in the UK and was seen as highly controversial.
Another version, the most forgettable imo, was a theatrical movie made in 1956. Again with Donald Pleasance being cast. A pregnant Jan Sterling had the role of Julia.
Then there’s Michael Radford’s 1984, starring John Hurt and Suzanna Hamilton, the best of the lot in my view.
All of them appeared to have borrowed from each other rather heavily in regards to which portion of the book made it to the screen.
George Lucas in his 1971 dystopic THX-1138 also cast Donald Pleasance and looked to have borrowed it’s own ‘Big Brother’ type imagery from the 1953 Westinghouse vision of BB.
If you are really trying to maintain a fair middle position, I don’t think this is a fair example. Harpending “the racist” was not expounding on math, he was expounding on racial matters. Therefore his pronouncements in this area, while not automatically false or not worth knowing, should at least be regarded in light of his known biases.
So what if what we’re talking about here isn’t math? I only gave a simple math problem to illustrate a point. There are two kinds of knowledge: personal opinion, or subjective knowledge, upon which we are the world’s foremost experts on our own opinions; we can’t be wrong. Are we talking about Harpending’s opinions here?
Assuming not, we’re talking about the second type of knowledge, which is rational and objective. The point of the logical fallacy poisoning the well is that objective statements are true no matter who makes them, and regardless of how unpopular they may be.
What liberals do is to seamlessly blend the two, something called hyperreality:
“South Africans have this thing better organised than any other country, particularly America."
She said that in 1970.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jun/03/margaret-court-astounding-champion-who-found-god-and-lost-the-respect-of-a-nation
Court was paid $10,000 for the match. This was in a day where many top pros gave lessons on the side to supplement their tour income. Her match with Riggs wasn’t near the spectacle his match with King was either. It is understandable why she played him.
also:
So Erin is right – there IS solidarity between Jews and blacks, insofar as the Jews are ambulance chasers and the blacks are “accident victims”. Maybe we can build on this solidarity and find other ways to gang up on our mutual enemy the white owned insurance companies. As an insurance investigator, were you required to wear KKK robes? Attend Klan meetings during work hours? I’m asking for a friend.
Don’t all landlords try to charge the highest rent the market will bear?
Yes, and respectable ones provide the services they promise. Orthodox landlords to a great extent don’t. So you see, they renege on the implied or even written contract. Apartments fall to ruin. Heat is not provided. Pests are not combatted. Etc etc. But rents are demanded.
And people wonder why this used to be called “jewing” someone out of his money.
Because they watched Clueless and it like, totally changed their lives.
Please provide me some examples of how blacks helped Jews in return. It's always been a one way street. And as soon as the blacks in the NAACP found their footing, they kicked the Jews out and King's protege, Jessie Jackson called them "Hymies".
The NY Times has been covering up black anti-semitism for decades. When blacks in Brooklyn staged an anti-Semitic pogrom, the NY Times spun it as ""Hasidim and blacks clashed with each other"
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/08/the-hard-truth-about-the-crown-heights-riots/243448/
Well only if you naively believe that the dominate Jewish presence behind “civil rights” was actually about helping blacks. It wasn’t. It was about — as usual — sticking it to white, gentile civilization. In which case, the blacks repaid the Jews far more than they could ever have imagined. Trillions spent on them and a trail of destruction in their wake.
How many whites have been killed, raped, robbed, beaten, etc. by blacks since the “civil rights” era? It’s a number nobody has the nerve to calculate. Not to mention destruction of white property values, ruining of schools, etc. etc.
Jews got exactly what they wanted from blacks.
Could Stephens be that sly?
And that’s JUST what he WANTS you to believe!
It’s always fun to scroll through the NYC landlords watchlist and look at the names of the top violators.
https://landlordwatchlist.com/landlords
My favorite is #32, Sigmund Freund. Average Number of Open HPD Violations: 482. What a mensch!
But they f*cking love science.
That tweet is heavily ratioed, almost 4 to 1. Unfortunately most of the people who are critical in the comments are critical of the NYT for allowing a “racist” cite to get through in the first place, and of Bret Stephens for the citing.
Mine is “unacceptable” esp when used by politicians.
Like “North Korea’s nuclear program is unacceptable. ”
Or Russia’s annexation of Crimea is unacceptable. Or China’s treatment of Uighurs (or manipulation of the currency) is unacceptable. Or Syria’s use of chemical weapons is unacceptable.
What does that mean?! All these things happened… and, in spite of their supposed unacceptabilty they were … accepted.
That is, nothing much changed with regard to the actors who took these actions.
I sort of like Lacuna Mentata instead.
In retrospect, that may well be true. War between nuclear states became an “all-or-nothing” proposition. In terms of big wars, we got “nothing” rather than nuclear armageddon. (Korea, Vietnam, Iran-Iraq, Arab-Israel were nothing compared to WWI and II).
On the other hand, I am not sure I’d want to run those odds again.
Yeah, it’s essentially a complex web of nepotism, but then people like him add insult to injury by saying, “Look how successful we are. Let’s explore the complex reasons why we are superior.”
https://twitter.com/JayMan471/status/1211596229978841089
https://twitter.com/JayMan471/status/1211596659928551426
https://twitter.com/JayMan471/status/1211596941810905088
https://twitter.com/JayMan471/status/1211599149147312129
That Lingford bloke seems to be a caricature of the whingy whiney hysterical young Aussie SJW. His Linkedin url is in his twitter profile. He must have been itching to pull the trigger on Harpending for some time. Probably has files on other people ready to go.
Matthew Yglesias piece:
To the extent it is rational it is nakedly motivated reasoning at play (the only kind that is believed to exist by most participants). Add to that the fact that any education involved outside the narrowly specialized was at best pro forma.
You have a generation (at least) who have been taught that all that matters is power and all else is merely a means toward that end. The only way this ends is to change the motivations upon which their motivated reasoning, such as it is, operates.
OT:
Well, I’ve seen the Joker movie, I have been wanting to since Steve’s review. The very high 8.7 rating on imdb coupled with the 69% on rt is an indication that the Jewish elite find the movie problematic, along with the snippets I have heard from some of them. But why?
Spoilers.
Initially, a non-white gang attacks Fleck. He is given a gun by white crypto WN co-worker Randall who calls the gang savages. It turns out that he was given a gun just to make him lose his job so as to pose less competition. This is the typical “gotcha” seen in so much Jewish entertainment. WN hero… is actually a villain.
Fleck is then beaten up by 3 very white very goy yuppies, who look like they could have stepped out of a Leyendecker poster. He murders them, somewhat justifiably at least judging by their bizarre behaviour. Fleck develops a love interest with a black female, who shows kindness to him.
The championing of these 3 Wall Street yuppies by Thomas Wayne acts to build a communist style uprising of clowns who riot in a generic poor vs white goy rich people conflict.
Murray Franklin’s show is very obviously controlled by a Jewish producer, this behind the scenes part of the movie is reminiscent of Network. I don’t think the producer is even explicitly said to be Jewish but it’s pretty obvious to anyone who is familiar enough with Jews.
Now, why the Jewish angst over this movie? (Mostly the movie runs according to the standard Jewish movie playbook, seems there is not much cause to be upset.) I think it stems from 2 or 3 things. The first is the depiction of a non-white, Africanish gang being criminal (even though it is only used as a foil to make a WN seem nice before becoming a villain). Never mind that every other black in the film is good.
Then there is the Jewish producer type manipulating what the public sees, pulling the strings. I think this is what the more intelligent Jews find uncomfortable. The wokesters would prefer that the former Worldstar type activity be removed, and they don’t like the idea that their multicult world is dystopic.
Maybe a distant third problem might be the idea that villainizing Wall Street could be counterproductive. If there is a pogrom against Wall Street it won’t just be the Leyendecker characters singled out.
The movie itself – yes, great performances, but more fun to talk about than watch, as Steve says. Aside from the political and the influences, the most interesting things about the movie are determining Fleck’s body count (did he kill the usher? Did he kill the black girl?), and if Fleck was actually adopted or not. The fact that Penny was both delusional and narcissistic, and also that Arthur evidently has great man type ability like his putative father (I disagree that he is low IQ, just that plain old standup without associated criminality was not his strength), are both genetic pointers to the truth that the HBD crowd would pick up on, as well as smart Jews who don’t drink their own koolaid. So the evidence would point to TW paying to cover it up.
TW is a kind of Trump character in this telling, from a Jewish perspective. A somewhat crooked wealthy white, maybe with some Jewish DNA (Joaquin is 50% and TW looks somewhat similar), who campaigns on a veiled WN platform which is of course, mostly baseless because those white goys mostly had it coming. Who gets assassinated in the movie.
also:
https://twitter.com/AdamRutherford/status/1211729565355298817
haha. I’ve spent the last couple of days wondering who the current biggest dickhead in the UK is – always a competitive battle. And it’s a close run thing between this guy and that QC who went all inglourious basterds on the fox in his garden on boxing day.
https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1211525943795208192?s=20
Of course. She’s part of the so called “Intellectual Dark Web”, along with Ben Shapiro, TPUSA, etc. All part of controlled opposition. Their roll is to feign some initial resistance before caving to the Left.
They are the best and brightest, Claire moreso than Ben, working their way through the five stages of grief over the collapse of their beloved ethos of nonjudgementalism from which the Woke have awakened, as from a restless sleep.
Erin Biba need not be too worried.
As I write this the MSM is hard at work attempting to get ‘the narrative’ back on track despite the two recent setbacks and they’re using the recent church shooting of yesterday to do it.
Everything from one of the two victims being Black to the town’s name (‘White Settlement’) and it’s origins is being heavily played up. Every ‘minority’ member of the church is being interviewed.
The now identified 43 year old shooter was White and had a shaved bald head (ie he at least looks like a skinhead).
What more could be asked?
True, the facts (aka truth) might not ultimately fit the narrative much at all (so very often the case) as more information comes out, but the self described so called ‘progressives’ haven’t cared about that precious commodity in a long, long, time.
Meanwhile, never miss an opporunity.
The Book That Scandalized the New York Intellectuals
With “Making It,” Norman Podhoretz attempted to craft a sociology of his set—and ended up ostracized from it.
By Louis MenandApril 24, 2017
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/01/the-book-that-scandalized-the-new-york-intellectuals
Like "North Korea's nuclear program is unacceptable. "
Or Russia's annexation of Crimea is unacceptable. Or China's treatment of Uighurs (or manipulation of the currency) is unacceptable. Or Syria's use of chemical weapons is unacceptable.
What does that mean?! All these things happened... and, in spite of their supposed unacceptabilty they were ... accepted.
That is, nothing much changed with regard to the actors who took these actions.
Unacceptable = Not who we are!
Hail Caesar.
One of the best.
Poor girl is still living in a dream world where Jews are given the status of honorary black persons and treated nicely by ordinary black people…
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/12/29/not-complicated-nbc-news-fact-checker-erin-biba-deletes-account-after-claiming-jew-stabbings-in-monsey-complicated/
Sometimes you can be so open minded that your brains fall out. Unless you are really, really sheltered in some privileged bubble or have some crazy warped Leftist view of reality ( Erin was probably both) you know that the state of black-Jewish (and especially black-Orthodox Jewish) relations in NY are not all kumbaya-let's unite against the evil KKK racists and fight for civil rights together. This is not 1964. Her tweet had that desperate hoping-against-hope air of denial of the true believer - maybe the early reports are wrong, maybe the situation is "complicated", maybe it's not as bad as it seems. Sorry Erin, it IS that bad and by getting too far out in front of this story in a way that was never going to pan out, you only succeeded in making your side look worse when it all fell apart 5 minutes later.
They aren’t feigning anything.
They are the best and brightest, Claire moreso than Ben, working their way through the five stages of grief over the collapse of their beloved ethos of nonjudgementalism from which the Woke have awakened, as from a restless sleep.
I’ve screencapped earlier editions of this same post. We have this happy situation where, on our side of the Wall, media embiggens, and in their open air prison, media has this strange property of shriveling.
“Harpending “the racist” was not expounding on math, he was expounding on racial matters. Therefore his pronouncements in this area, while not automatically false or not worth knowing, should at least be regarded in light of his known biases.”
Jack,
I knew Henry for two decades. Over time, I saw him become more convinced that human populations differ not only in their anatomy but also in aspects of mind and behavior that have a sizeable genetic component. This was not a change driven by “known biases.” It was driven by what he learned and discovered.
He was especially influenced by the findings of John Hawks’ 2007 study (of which he was a co-author). The study showed that human genetic evolution accelerated more than a hundred-fold 10,000 years ago. By then, humans had already spread over the entire world. They weren’t adapting to new natural environments. They were adapting to culture. That’s why he and Greg Cochran went on to write their book on the acceleration of gene-culture coevolution.
I dislike the argument of “pre-existing biases.” First, it’s anti-intellectual. Why bother debating when you can just say the other person is “racist” or “sexist” or “transphobe” or whatever? Second, that argument can be turned against the very people who use it. Don’t NYT editors have pre-existing biases? Don’t you? Doesn’t everyone? How can we change our minds on anything if we have no pre-existing thoughts or beliefs?
However, when it comes to matters with racial implications, only certain kinds of biases are permitted and other kinds make you a "racist" and beyond the range of respectable opinion. If Harpending had been a physicist or a number theorist, he would not have had this problem, but because his work touched on one of our society's sore spots, he did.
If you have the "correct" sort of views, then you can be WILDLY biased and no one will fault you for it - if you turn out to be mistaken it's only because you meant well and gave the benefit of the doubt to the egalitarian view. Someone like Gould made no pretense of objectivity. Only if you hold hereditarian views is your work automatically suspect (or beyond suspect - more extreme Leftists say that the conclusions of such a person (if he is even permitted to do such work, which he shouldn't) can be dismissed even before you read them and you shouldn't even allow your mind to be tainted with such filth. You can shout, "Nazi" at such a person and shut down all further inquiry. It's really a very effective way of dealing with those that you disagree with, if you can get away with it. And it pays dividends - not only have you shouted down the "Nazi" but any young scientist in his right mind is not going to step in that minefield.
College admissions could be the first chapter in the Big Book of Jewish Chutzpah. In its early days, IQ testing was ferociously promoted by Jews trying to enter prestigious Anglo institutions in the name of meritocracy; now that they’ve seized control of admissions, the mere suggestion that standardized testing could tell us about an applicant’s potential is reprehensible. You see, what really tells us about an applicant is a personal essay and list of extracurriculars, and if this happens to include piling foreskins down at Temple Beth El, well, so be it.
To take one example- in our boomer posters’ lifetimes, Northwestern’s gone from being openly hostile to Jewish applicants to being a place where goyishe kops might be advised to cultivate that weird effeminate creaky voice nebbish suburban Jews have.
*Everybody* has some ideology and some petty biases of some kind. It’s human nature. The more you think you are an exception to the rule, the more of a hold they typically have on you.
What distinguishes a person with a degree of mental agility and creativity is the ability to own this, to learn, and to have a willingness to understand realities that might contradict your own world-view. Otherwise, you might be able to memorize by rote, but nothing more.
I agree with you -we all have our “biases” (and I don’t just mean in the sense of being racially biased). If you know any scientists, you know that they tend to be highly opinionated about things involving their field (and sometimes beyond it) and that once you reach the cutting edge opinions among scientists can differ greatly.
However, when it comes to matters with racial implications, only certain kinds of biases are permitted and other kinds make you a “racist” and beyond the range of respectable opinion. If Harpending had been a physicist or a number theorist, he would not have had this problem, but because his work touched on one of our society’s sore spots, he did.
If you have the “correct” sort of views, then you can be WILDLY biased and no one will fault you for it – if you turn out to be mistaken it’s only because you meant well and gave the benefit of the doubt to the egalitarian view. Someone like Gould made no pretense of objectivity. Only if you hold hereditarian views is your work automatically suspect (or beyond suspect – more extreme Leftists say that the conclusions of such a person (if he is even permitted to do such work, which he shouldn’t) can be dismissed even before you read them and you shouldn’t even allow your mind to be tainted with such filth. You can shout, “Nazi” at such a person and shut down all further inquiry. It’s really a very effective way of dealing with those that you disagree with, if you can get away with it. And it pays dividends – not only have you shouted down the “Nazi” but any young scientist in his right mind is not going to step in that minefield.
I think their ‘love of science’ boils down to a love of Darwinism which is a weapon with which to beat Christianity. They’ve not really thought out the myriad ramifications of their position.
Yeah, it's all about re-re-re-re-replaying the Scopes trial on the movie screen in their heads. Striking a bold position against hicks from the sticks. Something left over from their high school years?
They’ve not really thought
out the myriad ramifications of their position.Simplified that for you.
You have a generation (at least) who have been taught that all that matters is power and all else is merely a means toward that end. The only way this ends is to change the motivations upon which their motivated reasoning, such as it is, operates.
What would be some specific examples of doing this?
Please provide me some examples of how blacks helped Jews in return. It's always been a one way street. And as soon as the blacks in the NAACP found their footing, they kicked the Jews out and King's protege, Jessie Jackson called them "Hymies".
The NY Times has been covering up black anti-semitism for decades. When blacks in Brooklyn staged an anti-Semitic pogrom, the NY Times spun it as ""Hasidim and blacks clashed with each other"
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/08/the-hard-truth-about-the-crown-heights-riots/243448/
Jews didn’t underwrite MLK or create the NAACP expecting Blacks to “help Jews in return.”
Jews promoted Blacks to break down White hegemony and foster a more “tolerant and multicultural” society which is safer for the Jews.
Schwartzes themselves were beside the point, a useful card to play.
A man of your intelligence knows that already, Jack. Stop playing dumb here.
Thank you.
However, when it comes to matters with racial implications, only certain kinds of biases are permitted and other kinds make you a "racist" and beyond the range of respectable opinion. If Harpending had been a physicist or a number theorist, he would not have had this problem, but because his work touched on one of our society's sore spots, he did.
If you have the "correct" sort of views, then you can be WILDLY biased and no one will fault you for it - if you turn out to be mistaken it's only because you meant well and gave the benefit of the doubt to the egalitarian view. Someone like Gould made no pretense of objectivity. Only if you hold hereditarian views is your work automatically suspect (or beyond suspect - more extreme Leftists say that the conclusions of such a person (if he is even permitted to do such work, which he shouldn't) can be dismissed even before you read them and you shouldn't even allow your mind to be tainted with such filth. You can shout, "Nazi" at such a person and shut down all further inquiry. It's really a very effective way of dealing with those that you disagree with, if you can get away with it. And it pays dividends - not only have you shouted down the "Nazi" but any young scientist in his right mind is not going to step in that minefield.
What were Harpending’s known biases?
This did not go well for Erin:
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/12/29/not-complicated-nbc-news-fact-checker-erin-biba-deletes-account-after-claiming-jew-stabbings-in-monsey-complicated/
Sometimes you can be so open minded that your brains fall out. Unless you are really, really sheltered in some privileged bubble or have some crazy warped Leftist view of reality ( Erin was probably both) you know that the state of black-Jewish (and especially black-Orthodox Jewish) relations in NY are not all kumbaya-let’s unite against the evil KKK racists and fight for civil rights together. This is not 1964. Her tweet had that desperate hoping-against-hope air of denial of the true believer – maybe the early reports are wrong, maybe the situation is “complicated”, maybe it’s not as bad as it seems. Sorry Erin, it IS that bad and by getting too far out in front of this story in a way that was never going to pan out, you only succeeded in making your side look worse when it all fell apart 5 minutes later.
Professor Bainbridge is pretty famous at this point, if only from his blogging, so the UCLA DIE apparatchiks may decide to let him slide. Whatever they do will happen in daylight, since Bainbridge will blog it.
To take one example- in our boomer posters' lifetimes, Northwestern's gone from being openly hostile to Jewish applicants to being a place where goyishe kops might be advised to cultivate that weird effeminate creaky voice nebbish suburban Jews have.
And Lori Loughlin, the daughter of an Irish telephone company foreman, and Felicity Huffman, from a long line of Europeans Christian, are crucified for daring to play the game like they were Jews.
Nah, to channel Jackie Mason- A Jew knows you bribe Harvard directly. Like Kushner did to get Jared in. Who bribes some kholerye polo coach? Only a Gentile daughter of a telephone company foreman.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/12/29/not-complicated-nbc-news-fact-checker-erin-biba-deletes-account-after-claiming-jew-stabbings-in-monsey-complicated/
Sometimes you can be so open minded that your brains fall out. Unless you are really, really sheltered in some privileged bubble or have some crazy warped Leftist view of reality ( Erin was probably both) you know that the state of black-Jewish (and especially black-Orthodox Jewish) relations in NY are not all kumbaya-let's unite against the evil KKK racists and fight for civil rights together. This is not 1964. Her tweet had that desperate hoping-against-hope air of denial of the true believer - maybe the early reports are wrong, maybe the situation is "complicated", maybe it's not as bad as it seems. Sorry Erin, it IS that bad and by getting too far out in front of this story in a way that was never going to pan out, you only succeeded in making your side look worse when it all fell apart 5 minutes later.
This did not go well for Erin:
Temporarily. For a few days. Then what ?
Do you think she’ll lose her gig as a (lol) “Fact checker”? That she’ll have to get a real job, or even “Learn to Code”?
Nah. This will blow over. Or maybe…maybe… if she actually has to leave NBC, she’ll just move to the NYT where she’d fit right in. Different subway stop, that’s all.
I think their ‘love of science’ boils down to a love of Darwinism which is a weapon with which to beat Christianity.
Yeah, it’s all about re-re-re-re-replaying the Scopes trial on the movie screen in their heads. Striking a bold position against hicks from the sticks. Something left over from their high school years?
They’ve not really thought
out the myriad ramifications of their position.Simplified that for you.
Strangely, the link of brutal debunking is to a Steven Pinker piece that doesn’t brutally debunk the paper. Steve himself has tweeted a link to the Pinker piece:
The word of the year, depending on whom you ask, is ‘they’ or ‘woke’. But the word of the century is undoubtedly FAKE. I can’t keep up any more – I am going to join Linh Dinh in Cambodia and become a fake VC vet until this all blows over.
Jews have never been given preferential treatment by ordinary blacks. In fact, they have been singled out for abuse for religious reasons. For blacks, it’s bad enough that Jews are white. That they are Jewish compounds the crime.
https://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/styles/story_main/public/story/images/selma!!!.jpg?itok=Igu4rRm6
I doubt this every really made it down to the street level but I suppose the average black Mississippian of 1964 felt some sympathy for Schwerner and Goodman (but not black NYers for Jewish landlords, storekeepers, etc., ever).
The Monsey attacker was apparently the progeny of (amnestied) illegal aliens from British Guyana.
“Don’t all landlords try to charge the highest rent the market will bear?”
Yes, and respectable ones provide the services they promise. Orthodox landlords to a great extent don’t. So you see, they renege on the implied or even written contract. Apartments fall to ruin. Heat is not provided. Pests are not combatted. Etc etc. But rents are demanded.
And people wonder why this used to be called “jewing” someone out of his money.
“A man of your intelligence knows that already, Jack. Stop playing dumb here.”
Thank you.
https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1211479983794737152
Hey, that could work! Dreadlocks would make really cool peyos! And their yarmulkes could be red, green and black.
This is the solidarity of the farmer and the cattle, not that of two more-or-less equal collaborators.
A long line? Are there some European Christians with a longer line that others? Do say Italians get extra credit for having longer lines of Christian ancestors than Lithuanians? What if she was from a SHORT line of Christians -say her great grandpa converted from Judaism. Would this make her tragic crucifixion (OK, 11 days in a low security Fed lockup – not exactly the same as being crucified) less tragic? How does this work?
I doubt she’s that relaxed about it. Being a journalist today is like being a buggy-whip manufacturer in 1900. The whole industry is dying and spending its credibility as fast as it can before it vanishes.
What would you say are their current motivations?
And Lori Loughlin, the daughter of an Irish telephone company foreman, and Felicity Huffman, from a long line of Europeans Christian, are crucified for daring to play the game like they were Jews
Nah, to channel Jackie Mason- A Jew knows you bribe Harvard directly. Like Kushner did to get Jared in. Who bribes some kholerye polo coach? Only a Gentile daughter of a telephone company foreman.
Nah, to channel Jackie Mason- A Jew knows you bribe Harvard directly. Like Kushner did to get Jared in. Who bribes some kholerye polo coach? Only a Gentile daughter of a telephone company foreman.
Yeah, Loughlin was acting like a stereotypical Jew – she was trying to get off cheaply. To BUY your way directly into Harvard nowadays, as Kushner did, as a “development admit” (you might say that this is the “goyische” way – paying full retail) , is $3 million and up. Loughlin took the discount route and tried to get in cheap by paying $500,000 in bribes. She was like a lady that bought a fur coat that “fell off the back of the truck” for 10 cents on the dollar – when the cops come to take it back and arrest you for possession of stolen property, you should not complain.
Maybe what she wrote would endear her to hard core leftists but not to most Jews in NY. Jews know that they are under attack in NY mainly from blacks – they have no illusions and someone trying to distract them away from the obvious truth for any reason, even because they are good Lefties, is not going to get a warm welcome right now.
That she was supposed to be a professional “fact checker” and showed that she had such little command of the facts and was willing to play fast and loose with them to score political points is not going to endear her to future employers. As you say, they are rapidly spending their credibility as it is and don’t need employees to spend what little remains for them.
Sounds like someone’s self-conscious about the shortness of his line.
With “Making It,” Norman Podhoretz attempted to craft a sociology of his set—and ended up ostracized from it.By Louis MenandApril 24, 2017https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/01/the-book-that-scandalized-the-new-york-intellectuals
I’ve read “Making It.” A thoroughly enjoyable book, at least for me. I grew up a thousands miles away from that milieu, culturally and geographically, so it’s a bit like reading about another country.
Norman Podhoretz is a far more interesting writer than his son, whose scribbled thoughts are only occasionally memorable due to their almost auto-generated stupidity.
There was supposed to be a mythical time when Jews and blacks literally stood arm and arm linked together in solidarity in support of Civil Rights:
I doubt this every really made it down to the street level but I suppose the average black Mississippian of 1964 felt some sympathy for Schwerner and Goodman (but not black NYers for Jewish landlords, storekeepers, etc., ever).
The Monsey attacker was apparently the progeny of (amnestied) illegal aliens from British Guyana.
Nah, to channel Jackie Mason- A Jew knows you bribe Harvard directly. Like Kushner did to get Jared in. Who bribes some kholerye polo coach? Only a Gentile daughter of a telephone company foreman.
Nah, to channel Ovadia Yosef, shiksa daughters of blue collar goys have no business sending their kids to fancy universities–they are mules and should know their place. And stop spreading the blood libel about the Chosen paying to get their kids into college. More often than not Jewish parents just contact the resident Jews in admissions, then benefit from their cultural cornerstone–the energetic scratching of each others’ backs to the detriment of other groups, while bitterly lamenting the days when the gentiles wouldn’t let them into their country clubs.
Preventing another Holocaust, staying in the good graces of the Jews, etc.
A Holocaust is prevented with the carrot of better things to do (widespread opportunity for family formation*) combined with the stick of strong men standing in the way of any who would try it.
Strong men don't need lies. If you're feeling too weak, get off your high horse and make some more fucking allies.
* - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0011128712441745
So what we learned from this incident is that the SPLC is the ultimate authority on science in America.
Good to know.
The real answer, of course, is that in addition to decent IQs and a culture that values success, Jews aggressively, assiduously, religiously help their own to the detriment of other groups, while, at the same time, literally making a federal case out of it whenever the goyim try using the same tactic. And why shouldn't they do this if they can get away with it? They are not encumbered by a Christian sense of right and wrong--which Nietzsche, of course, called a slave morality.
That explains how Jared Kushner got into Harvard despite lackluster grades and test scores.
What the coaches were doing was freelancing, like when the Best Buy employee "sells" you a TV that's not his to sell out the back door, for a discount price. And of course Singer's customers knew that was what they were buying, having their kids pose for phony pictures holding tennis rackets or in front of sailboats, etc. but they were too cheap (or not rich enough) to pay the full asking price at the cash register. And that's why they, despite their deep qualification as Christians from way back which really should have brought them immunity, are going to jail.
Five years on, the lessons from the Rolling Stone rape story
Shortly thereafter, the story of Rolling Stone’s reporting failure would eclipse the larger problem of the systematic abuse and mistreatment of women across college fraternities and beyond – even as it would help inspire a new commitment to tenacious sexual assault reporting down the road.
Not that anyone would have predicted that at the time of publication.
I wonder whatever happened to Jackie Coakley?
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/12/29/not-complicated-nbc-news-fact-checker-erin-biba-deletes-account-after-claiming-jew-stabbings-in-monsey-complicated/
Sometimes you can be so open minded that your brains fall out. Unless you are really, really sheltered in some privileged bubble or have some crazy warped Leftist view of reality ( Erin was probably both) you know that the state of black-Jewish (and especially black-Orthodox Jewish) relations in NY are not all kumbaya-let's unite against the evil KKK racists and fight for civil rights together. This is not 1964. Her tweet had that desperate hoping-against-hope air of denial of the true believer - maybe the early reports are wrong, maybe the situation is "complicated", maybe it's not as bad as it seems. Sorry Erin, it IS that bad and by getting too far out in front of this story in a way that was never going to pan out, you only succeeded in making your side look worse when it all fell apart 5 minutes later.
Actually, I don’t see how “focusing on the real problem, white supremacy” (aka white people) requires blacks and Jews to actually like each other. It just means remembering that, however much tension there might be between blacks and Jews, whites remain an even more important problem.
I come from a LONG line of Jews, longer than any Christian line. As AFAIK, we were Jews all the way back to Abraham – my father and my father’s father, etc. I can’t imagine anyone not born Jewish would want in on this religion. But I don’t expect to get any special credit for this – every human comes from a long line of humans stretching all the way back to Adam.
Greatness famously skips a generation.
Preach brother.
Turns out that chain of being is the individual, not we measly organisms.
That’s why the New Testament begins with one. Genesis indeed.
Agreed. The goyim should not complain. Complaining is the birthright of The Chosen. As the great Ovadia Yosef said, “Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat… That is why gentiles were created.” In short, they were not created to send their bad meat to the elite incubators of world power. They should know their place, and putting Loughlin firmly in her place was a good lesson to all the other wannabe interloper goys.
The point, boychik, was not that she should get special credit for being so eminently gentile. The point was that she was a perfect symbol. We get it, you’re proud of the way your people now dominate the elite incubators of American power not due to merit, but because of guile and pull and, as some might call it, a group evolutionary strategy. When Jews get their kids into elite universities by unfair means, it is not even unfair. It’s is G-d’s will. But when some shiksa gets too big for her britches and tries to do the same, she must be punished publicly, made an example of, as a reminder of what the great Ovadia Yosef meant when he said: “Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel.” It is no wonder his funeral was the largest in the history of The Jewish State, attended by all of its leaders, who praised him as a mentor of great wisdom.
The recent incidents are ruining New York’s reputation in the eyes of
the world. With such high levels of hatred and racial tension, on top
of the decaying infrastructure, it’s getting harder and harder every year to
think of NYC as a civilized place. New York fell recently from the world’s
top 10 tourist destinations while New York state is losing population. People
are taking their business elsewhere. Is New York doomed to mediocrity?
Hilarious projection.
“The Nazi is using the Black as muscle against you!”
Bush II was just following FDR's precedent in falsifying an opponent's WMD threat. How was Germany going to go nuclear without Jewish scientists?
Well, for starters, they didn’t have the money nor resources and being bombed daily didn’t make for a productive work environment.
Steve Sailer Retweeted:
Well, according to author Thomas Powers , they almost did.
Didn’t happen. But it could have, if a particular technical path had been favored.
It was the moral hazard of Versailles (and Wilson’s callow hubris/treachery) and Bloomsbury decadence that opened the way for the Holocaust in the first place. Likewise does the propagation of lies/Maoist denial of the truth spew moral hazard all over the place today, with all sorts of victims – mismatched blacks, libeled classes of people in the millions, injustice rampant and understood to be. That’s no way to prevent a Holocaust.
A Holocaust is prevented with the carrot of better things to do (widespread opportunity for family formation*) combined with the stick of strong men standing in the way of any who would try it.
Strong men don’t need lies. If you’re feeling too weak, get off your high horse and make some more fucking allies.
* – https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0011128712441745
https://t.co/mPhKGgvxnA
A Holocaust is prevented with the carrot of better things to do (widespread opportunity for family formation*) combined with the stick of strong men standing in the way of any who would try it.
Strong men don't need lies. If you're feeling too weak, get off your high horse and make some more fucking allies.
* - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0011128712441745
Here’s the better link.
https://t.co/mPhKGgvxnA
If the goyim were smart they’d refuse to elect ivy leaguers to public office and raise a stink when ivy leaguers were disproportionately nominated to Supreme Court slots, et al, and they’d demand their state legislatures not fund state university sportsball but rather serious programs to train serious talent in the things that matter. Jooz are to that extent evolutionarily superior, but that isn’t their fault. It’s the fault of the dumb cattle because they have the power (unlike actual quadruped bovines) to modify their behavior but choose not to.
In the Anglosphere , 1984 began on December 7, 1941. Orwell was behind the curve
A Holocaust is prevented with the carrot of better things to do (widespread opportunity for family formation*) combined with the stick of strong men standing in the way of any who would try it.
Strong men don't need lies. If you're feeling too weak, get off your high horse and make some more fucking allies.
* - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0011128712441745
Where is the moral hazard in either of those two situations? Are you sure you are using the term correctly?
If Ovadia Yosef is the spokesman for all Jews then Ayatollah Khamenei is the spokesman for all goyim. I’ll look up some things he said and put those words in your mouth.
"The Jewish people lost one of the sages of the generation,” Netanyahu said. "When I think of the chain of generations of scholars from Babylonia, to Spain, to Rabbi [Joseph] Karo, that is Rav Ovadia’s legacy – another link in the chain of love and learning of Torah throughout the generations.”
(Then President Shimon Peres) regarded Yosef not only as a treasured friend but as his teacher and his rabbi. Speaking about his final encounter with Yosef, Peres said that his throat had been constricted with tears as he squeezed Yosef’s hand. “The hand that was still warm and I kissed his forehead which to me looked more noble than ever. When I squeezed his hand, I felt that I was squeezing the hand of history and when I kissed his forehead, I thought that I was kissing the majesty of Israel,” he said.
Want me to continue?
But they f*cking love science.
By God, it’s Twitter, the Mos Eisley cantina of the Internet.
A hive of scum, villany, self-promotion and sheer idiocy. Blueticks congregate there. You must be careful.
The NYT Tweet is mainly interesting because it forcefully pushes the idea that Jews are either genetically inferior or at best equal to anyone else in all respects. This is clearly the case, Jews are vastly underrepresented in all manner of domains.
Also, White Quantum Supremacy explains why DNA twists into a double helix.
Kushner got in as a “development admit” – this is no secret. This route is open to pretty much anyone, Jew or Gentile, with a big enough checkbook. Last time I saw a number it was in the vicinity of $3 million but maybe it’s higher now – you make a donation to the university and your kid gets in. This is entirely legit and open and above board. Harvard is a private university and if they want to sell their admission slots to the highest bidder, they have every right to do so.
What the coaches were doing was freelancing, like when the Best Buy employee “sells” you a TV that’s not his to sell out the back door, for a discount price. And of course Singer’s customers knew that was what they were buying, having their kids pose for phony pictures holding tennis rackets or in front of sailboats, etc. but they were too cheap (or not rich enough) to pay the full asking price at the cash register. And that’s why they, despite their deep qualification as Christians from way back which really should have brought them immunity, are going to jail.
Of course.
The cost of the broken eggs for Wilson’s omelets was not just the eggs themselves, nor is the cost of destroying, for instance, Damore’s reputation borne by merely Damore alone. I’m sure you’re more than capable of identifying some of those unaccounted for externalities yourself without playing Socratestard.
The history of the term’s etymology is a long and interesting one but it is also powerfully and accurately evocative as is.
Yeah, it's all about re-re-re-re-replaying the Scopes trial on the movie screen in their heads. Striking a bold position against hicks from the sticks. Something left over from their high school years?
They’ve not really thought
out the myriad ramifications of their position.Simplified that for you.
Agreed!
As I’m sure you’re aware, Harpending worked with Frank Salter 20 years ago. This was before he worked with Hawks, and it was on work that went beyond population differences in mind and behavior. It was on work that examined racial matters in certain metaphysical and moral directions. This was before what he learned and discovered working with Hawks and others.
A Holocaust is prevented with the carrot of better things to do (widespread opportunity for family formation*) combined with the stick of strong men standing in the way of any who would try it.
Strong men don't need lies. If you're feeling too weak, get off your high horse and make some more fucking allies.
* - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0011128712441745
In economics, moral hazard occurs when someone increases their exposure to risk when insured, especially when a person takes more risks because someone else bears the cost of those risks. A moral hazard may occur where the actions of one party may change to the detriment of another after a financial transaction has taken place.
Does the Ayatollah pretend to speak for all goys?
And if the Ayatollah said something as insulting about non-muslims, don’t you think people would wonder just what it is about Islam that would make a man say such a thing?
Midddle class Blacks are better at this. it’s a big part of what makes them middle class.
So they should have prosecuted her quietly. That’ll be the day.
A smart President might start by appointing SCOTUS judges from among Ivy League graduates from law schools other than Harvard and Yale (which supply about 90% of the justices.) Also the U of C and Stanford (which graduated Sandra Day O’Connor) and public universities with very good law schools: Virginia, Michigan, Texas, U of C Berkeley (Boalt Hall) and possibly some others. These schools are generally just as liberal as Harvard and Yale, but, with a larger pool to choose from, it would be easier to find one of the few graduates from these places who had kept their common sense, or who had a Road to Damascus moment along the way causing them to convert to common sense, preferably not too late in life.
This showed up in the twitter feed of somebody on r/sneerclub:
Researchers Say Intelligence and Diseases May Be Linked in Ashkenazic Genes
By Nicholas Wade
June 3, 2005
New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/science/researchers-say-intelligence-and-diseases-may-be-linked-in.html
Oops!
https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1211731458622144513
From the Matthew Yglesias piece in Vox:
From the Columbia Journalism Review piece:
Ha ha. Oh, man, that’s so weak! You’re losing all credibility now. Sad!
“The Jewish people lost one of the sages of the generation,” Netanyahu said. “When I think of the chain of generations of scholars from Babylonia, to Spain, to Rabbi [Joseph] Karo, that is Rav Ovadia’s legacy – another link in the chain of love and learning of Torah throughout the generations.”
(Then President Shimon Peres) regarded Yosef not only as a treasured friend but as his teacher and his rabbi. Speaking about his final encounter with Yosef, Peres said that his throat had been constricted with tears as he squeezed Yosef’s hand. “The hand that was still warm and I kissed his forehead which to me looked more noble than ever. When I squeezed his hand, I felt that I was squeezing the hand of history and when I kissed his forehead, I thought that I was kissing the majesty of Israel,” he said.
Want me to continue?
Yeah, if the Goyim were smart, they would do lots of things, including: addressing the fact that Jews aggressively help their own to the detriment of gentiles while, at the same time, literally making a federal case out of it whenever any other group tries the same tactic.
The hope or whatever, that people should be without prejudices is understandable, even though it is practically impossible. We depend on our personal experiences and that is a structural limitation that is a part of the human condition; it would, therefore, be non-human or anti-human to ask that we’d be without prejudices. If people think, that they stand on the right side of history that’s ok. If they think that standing on the right side of history liberates them from being prejudiced, they’re wrong.
In hindsight, it is always easy to be without prejudices, because in hindsight we quite easily know what’s right or wrong (most of the time). It might well be, that this perspective is the one, that tricks people into believing that it would be possible and – easy, even, to let your prejudices behind.
Seen from a hermeneutic and/ or philosophical (neo-Kantian = Habermasian) perspective, the confusion arises as soon as people assume (or state) that moral/ ethical problems could be solved in the same way as those concerning the physical world. – With objective and methodological rigor! – But that is just not the case because moral/ethical problems are internally related with our selves (our personal /societal selves = our individual history) – and this frame of personal(=existential) reference ties them structurally with the by its very nature non-quantifiable realm of self-reflection/ identity (the self-reflective process which (at times) can help us to develop our moral and ethical identity and our – – – – proper selves).
As Gadamer put it: There is no direct connection between method (= objective science) and the questions of identity. We thrive on our prejudices (our histories). We all do so because we have to – – – since there is just no other civilized way out of our existential conundrums, except the illusory one which seeks firm ground in methodological failure.
These kinds of failures are very tempting because they thrive on the powerful methodological basis of our (powerful and impressive indeed) modern civilization. But to give up the distinction between existential and nomological (=scientific) questions, as attractive as it might look, is a regressive and dehumanizing endeavor; this deceptive philosophical move is one of the root causes of our current struggles over rationality and enlightenment.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Genius-Anxiety/Norman-Lebrecht/9781982134228
Politico: