Posted on 12/29/2019 6:32:53 PM PST by karpov
After a public uproar, The New York Times has revised a column by Bret Stephens that cited an academic paper co-authored by an anthropologist who has been branded a white nationalist.
An editor’s note, appended to the column headlined “The Secrets of Jewish Genius,” says a reference to the 2005 study was removed and that Stephens did not know the author “promoted racist views.
“Mr. Stephens was not endorsing the study or its authors’ views, but it was a mistake to cite it uncritically,” the note said. “The effect was to leave an impression with many readers that Mr. Stephens was arguing that Jews are genetically superior. That was not his intent.” It noted that he “went on instead to argue that culture and history are crucial factors in Jewish achievements.”
In the column, Stephens posed a question about Jews: “How is it that a people who never amounted even to one-third of 1 percent of the world’s population contributed so seminally to so many of its most pathbreaking ideas and innovations?”
He said that Jews “are, or tend to be, smart” and then cited the 2005 paper “Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence” by Gregory Cochran, Jason Hardy, and Henry Harpending, which declares that Ashkenazi Jews have the highest average I.Q. of any ethnic group.
It was quickly pointed out on social media that Harpending, who died in 2016, was listed as an extremist by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which listed his ideology as “white nationalist.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
SNORT
The SPLC is an extremist organization. So there!
Looks as if like he lives on, rent free..
I do have a certain skepticism about IQ scores, and I do understand that they can be (but do not necessarily have to be) fodder for racist views --- but is IQ strictly out of bounds, even as one data point out of many to be considered?
Whole lot of guilt-by-association here.
The Quilliam Foundation sued and won a defamation case, because they smeared the moderate Muslim and Islamic reformation group as Islamophobic ... though it was one of the few voices condemning Muslim terrorists without blaming everyone else in society.
So SPLC scumbags are really asserting that a "white supremacist" endorsed a view that Jews were MORE intelligent??
Quite a change from Hitler & Co. calling them "subhuman" or "vermin"
Harpending, who died in 2016, was listed as an extremist by the Southern Poverty Law Center...
The Secrets of Jewish Genius: It’s not about having higher I.Q.s.
NYT | 12 27 2019 | Bret Stephens
Posted on 12/28/2019 7:56:45 AM PST by yesthatjallen
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3803974/posts
Is there enough popcorn in the world to last through this seemingly unending farce . . . ?
Please see my reply 43 in the original thread.
Nathan
But, but, but ... Ashkenazi Jews DO have the highest average I.Q. of any ethnic group.
IQs are racist because certain groups score at what you would expect, and we want to believe that everyone can grow up and be an astrophysicist.
Just look at how many Nobel prize winners come from Israel- especially in the hard sciences.
“It was quickly pointed out on social media that Harpending, who died in 2016, was listed as an extremist by the Southern Poverty Law Center, WHICH IS A CADILLAC COMMUNIST SCAM that hides money overseas.”
/ FIXED IT
Just imagine how many awesome discoveries might have been made if Hitler hadn’t killed six million Jews.
The secret to Jewish genius is that the sooner we Jews stop reading the NY Times, the smarter we are!
Jews are not so smart when it comes to politics... But then again, who is?..... look at how long Social Conservatives, from both rural Protestant and urban Catholic backgrounds, have allowed themselves to be fooled by Country Club, Martini sipping, decadant, self-serving Establishment Republicans
LOL
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