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1 posted on 12/02/2013 9:09:37 AM PST by jazusamo
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2 posted on 12/02/2013 9:10:59 AM PST by jazusamo ([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
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When you pay stupid people to sit around and breed more stupid people this is what you get

The movie “Idiocracy” was not a comedy- it was a documentary


3 posted on 12/02/2013 9:11:27 AM PST by Mr. K (If you like you constitution, you can keep it. Period.)
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Those poor brit Whites are poor because they are low-IQ. They are low-IQ because their parents are stupid and keep them stupid.


5 posted on 12/02/2013 9:24:23 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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The most obvious correlation is

father at home = students meeting standards


8 posted on 12/02/2013 9:29:43 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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he could not recall any white 16-year-old who could multiply nine by seven

Iirc, a patient told him, "We didn't get that far."

12 posted on 12/02/2013 9:38:16 AM PST by Tax-chick (Now with more LOL and less UNNNGH.)
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Noticed one of Jessie Owens Olympic Gold Medals is up for auction.

I think it should go to Thomas Sowell, because he personally debunks the myth that if you're Black, you must either be dependent on government handouts, or a race baiting politician, to be successful.

15 posted on 12/02/2013 9:50:32 AM PST by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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What low-income whites in England and ghetto blacks in the United States have in common is a generations-long indoctrination in victimhood. The political left in both countries has, for more than half a century, maintained a steady and loud drumbeat of claims that the deck is stacked against those at the bottom.

Almost like 'learned helplessness' - only much worse. Sowell's on to something important here... Are parents in England rewarded with extra 'welfare' for having children who are 'out of control'?

16 posted on 12/02/2013 9:52:15 AM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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Most people are finally wising up to the fact that different peoples of the world have varying levels of hard-wired intelligence. And since the differences are quite uneven, some groups with many people on the left side of bell curve are going to have problems. But differences occur between the “races” as well. Caucasians from Asia don’t score as high as Caucasians from Europe. Certain Asians don’t score as high as other Asians. This does not mean that everybody from the lower-scoring ethnicities cannot compete in the modern world, it just means many of them will have a tougher time of it.


18 posted on 12/02/2013 9:59:42 AM PST by driftless2
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Thanks, jaz -- I sent this to several friends.

God bless and protect Thomas Sowell.

19 posted on 12/02/2013 10:15:24 AM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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Mr. Sowell points out something much worse, in my opinion, than the economic destruction ultimately wrought by socialism. Socialism, aka wealth redistribution, destroys human potential. It creates dependency and lives of low expectations rather than inspiring people to rise to the best of their God-given abilities. Who knows what these poor children might have achieved?

This is also why I claim socialists are downright evil. Oh, I don’t doubt they believe they’re doing good, but a person who is always handed a crutch never learns to walk. Socialists penalize success and subsidize failure.


23 posted on 12/02/2013 10:43:40 AM PST by CitizenUSA (Democrats. The only constitutional rights they believe in are sodomy and abortion.)
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"The Economist" points out that, in one borough of London, white students scored lower than black students in any London borough.

Hogwash!

I mean everybody knows that blacks are mentally inferior to whites and Asians. Just read The Bell Curve which proves beyond the shadow of doubt that this is true.

Everybody knows this, right?

Right? </sarcasm>

Jesus Christ: You can’t impeach Him and He ain’t going to resign.



27 posted on 12/02/2013 10:55:42 AM PST by rdb3 (Drive for show, putt for dough. No wonder why I stayed broke on the links!)
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In both countries, immigrants enter a supposedly closed society that refuses to let anyone rise — and they nevertheless rise, while the native-born at the bottom remain at the bottom.

The native born whites at the bottom in England have probably been near the bottom for a few centuries. This might be evidence of the role of genetics, and that, regrettably, those at the lower end of intelligence gradually settle at the lower end of societal success and remain there.

31 posted on 12/02/2013 11:44:52 AM PST by Will88
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In the Air Force I encountered a lot of Blacks, either officers or Civil Service doing engineering work. I worked with them, I commanded them, and in one case my commanding officer was a black Colonel. Granted, to get in the Air Force you have to meet certain minimum standards, but in all cases the Blacks I met were fully competitive with their White counterparts.

Also, be careful how you interpret the Bell Curve. The researchers who wrote the book stated that the mean for Blacks was half a standard deviation below the mean for Whites. However, that still means a fair number of Blacks in the right hand end of the Bell Curve, above the mean for Whites.

32 posted on 12/02/2013 11:52:21 AM PST by JoeFromSidney ( book, RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon.)
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From the article: "...among children who are eligible for free meals in England's schools..."

My thought is this: Perhaps the whites who are eligible for free meals are eligible because they come from parents of lower intelligence, while perhaps the blacks who are eligible come from parents who are simply lazy.

In other words, this study could be flawed in using eligibility for benefits as a criteria. Different people are eligible for benefits for different reasons, some by circumstance and some by design.

60 posted on 12/03/2013 10:07:31 AM PST by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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BTTT!


61 posted on 12/05/2013 10:40:00 AM PST by neverdem (Register pressure cookers! /s)
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