Actions have consequences.
Jaun is evidence that some people in certain demographics are idiots. That people who cluster to certain cultural norms and political theories are also idiots.
People like Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, etc... prove that melanin has almost nothing to do with the above...
Polls indicate that “conservative people think that democrat and lefty people are less intelligent. They think they’re less trustworthy, less patriotic.”
I don’t think that most are less intelligent. What I DO think is that most blacks are VERY susceptible to their peers around them and how they act and react to white people around them.
Given the fact that the media usually polls liberals I can believe their polling showed this result.
Race Baiting, parts 2 and 3 and 4.
Used when there is no other way to excite your base, even though the ‘excitement’ is only short term.
Trying to gin up the “summer of love 2.0” for this election year. Expect to see more divisive stories like this as we enter the summer.
So now I’m curious. Are blacks less intelligent than whites on average? Because if they are, then it isn’t racist to think that.
So, if Juan Williams really wanted to “deal with these root issues”, he would demand a study comparing the average IQ of various races.
If it turns out blacks have an average IQ equal to or higher than whites, I guess that would indicate that white people who think otherwise are racially prejudiced.
If it turns out blacks have a lower average IQ than whites, I guess that would prove white people who think that are not racially prejudiced - they are just correct.
Will there ever be such a study published? I really doubt it.
I work in an inner city school......nuff said
The Bell Curve was written in 1994. Unless you think IQs are genetic, IQs could have changed since then.
Thomas Sowell showed that IQs for so-called white ethnics (Italians, Poles, etc.) rose from WWI to WWII. In the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT), the white ethnics were about 1 standard deviation below native-born WASPs in WWI. This “confirmed” nativist arguments against white ethnics as lesser people, intermediate between blacks and northern Europeans.
But, voila!, the test showed white ethnics to have the same IQ as native-born WASPS in the intake of soldiers into the armed forces during WWII. Gee wiz, how did that happen?
Sowell’s finding was replicated following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Eastern Europeans, to include East Germans, were about 1 standard deviation below their counterparts in western Europe. Is it because communism attracts stupid people or is it because communism makes people stupid? Well, nowadays, Estonians look like Swedes in terms of IQ; eastern Germans like western Germans; and Poles like Germans.
Turning now to African Americans, they were about 1 standard deviation below whites at the time of the Bell Curve. This IQ Gap has since narrowed, we can say by half.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/racial-iq-gap-narrows-blacks-gain-4-7-points-whites
There is some evidence that blacks with similar socio-economic upbringing as whites have similar IQ. The damn problem is that more blacks are raised in lower-income households, in dysfunctional neighborhoods, and without fathers. In a single word, welfare.
I’ll also mention Nigerians. In England, they split out various Africans, distinguishing the children of the genuinely stupid people from Somalia from the children of Nigerians and other places in Africa. The children of Nigerians do just fine. They look, IQ-wise, like native-born English children.
Nigerians, by the way, are pretty competitive in international “mind games” such as scrabble. Though not so competitive in chess, the Math Olympiad, or memory. Yeah, when we start talking brains, let’s keep in mind that genius comes in various ways. Some people are genius in their use of hands to make cars work or to paint. Who has a test for this kind of genius?
We, here in America, know first hand of the genius of black people in basketball and football, in jazz and other forms of music, and in other ways, not necessarily in ways measured by IQ tests. Shouldn’t those forms of genius be recognized?
And what do these race-based scores mean any waay? What matters for each individual person is their unique and wonderful set of gifts, along with the freedom to compete.
If this story were published today, I'd say it was LAAP-dog media agitprop intended to convince African-Americans who are thinking about straying from the Democrat party to vote for President Trump to think twice, because Republicans are racist white people who really hate you.
But it wasn't published today.
-PJ
I know quite a few black people and I think even they believe that in general white people are smarter. That doesn’t mean that there isn’t many smart black people because there are.
I don’t see lots of white folks falling for the lies and kneeling and refusing to stand for the pledge of allegiance... Not even the demonstrably dumb and low educated ones.
Largely these tend to be in my experience black who believe themselves to be far smarter than they actually are.
Which black person are we talking about?
there is a difference between intelligence and education, and stats can quickly show you if certain groups have far less education than other groups for whatever reason.
And if you are part of a group that commits the vast majority of crimes.. yeah.. people are going to think you are more untrustworthy.
they must have intereviewed primarily liberals...
And what do black people think about white people?
Our University professor, back in 1972, told us that back in the antebellum days it was said blacks had less intelligence and even had a “scientific” name for it. I don’t remember the name.
They could tell the slaves to hoe a row of cotton to get the weeds out of it, and come back and find the cotton chopped down and the weeds left.
Back in the plantation mansion they would discuss how dumb the slaves were.
In the slave quarters they would be saying “We sure fixed his wagon didn’t we!”
In agriculture class back in 1962, our teacher told us that blacks had a smaller brain cavity due to excess bone and said any anatomy class would prove it when sawing into the skull. I never checked it out.
When getting my physical(1966) for military many of the blacks failed the intelligence course. They had to take the tests over again. Were they really dumb or just trying to get listed as 4-F? Lots of whites also “failed” and were rejected. One had eaten a 5 lb bag of sugar which showed up as diabetes and was rejected.
Did you flashback to make the Free Republic look bad and attract attention that might cause the owners trouble? Why would you do this?