Well, the ever high-minded liberals at the New York Times have confronted themselves with a parlous moral proposition:
if Ashkenazi Jews are smarter than other groups, then the other groups must be stupider.
Who would that be? How can the New York Times retain its high mindedness if there logic drives them to believe that some races are stupider than other races? (Remember, these propositions are only the inevitable inferences from the writings of a genetically Jewish author of The New York Times.) How did the writer himself sidestep this landmine? First he digs the hole deeper:
During the 20th century, they made up about 3 percent of the U.S. population but won 27 percent of the U.S. Nobel science prizes and 25 percent of the ACM Turing awards. They account for more than half of world chess champions.
So chicken or egg, Ashkenazi Jews won these awards and championships because they are smarter or these awards and championships go to prove that they are smarter. Either way Ashkenazi Jews are smarter, therefore others must be stupider.
Does any reader believe for an instant that the estimable Brett Stevens would be offered space in the New York Times to report that Africans are stupider? What about my Irish and German forbearers? I had an uncle who was pretty stupid, but I don't want to hear that I'm stupid, or my mother or father and, God help you, not my kids. Truly, the New York Times would hemorrhage before it would assert that Blacks or any other race are intellectually inferior.
So Mr. Stevens has to do a tap dance around the implicit racism inherent in his article. He tells us it is not that the Ashkenazi Jews are smarter it is that they are different, that is, they think differentl(ly) [ see, I read the thread].
Well, if they won all those awards and championships it must be because they think smarter when they think differently. Oh no! We mustn't draw that conclusion or we will surely be cast into outer darkness, banished to a life of exile beyond Manhattan Island. We must instead say something cute and bland, we must never admit racial differences and never ever admit racial superiority, we must say they think "different."
The leftist of the New York Times will properly tell us that group averages of IQ have very little to do with the particular IQ level of an individual. Therefore, all men must be treated equally-but do they mean that?. To the contrary, we conservative say that all men are not equal, some whether Ashkenazi or not, are smarter than others. We say they are created equal and therefore they must be treated equally under the law and they must be given an equal chance to demonstrate their ability to win awards, prizes and championships. We distinguish between the quality of treatment by the law and the qualities of merit.
The New York Times, which is full of Ashkenazi Jews, insists that there is no difference among races in terms of inherent abilities warranting different treatment not just by the law but by society -except when they rule otherwise.
That is, our freedom of association guaranteed by the Constitution must be set aside in favor of liberal values that say that matters of private Association such as in housing, public accommodation, employment etc. are invidious and wrongly based on prejudgments about differences in races.
On the other hand, differences in races when it comes to to intelligence are not to be recognized especially where the matter of intelligence is most relevant. So for example, we are now discriminating against intelligent Ashkenazi Jews in university admittances in favor of more favored colors or races who individually evidence less intelligence. Evidently, the right to discriminate on the basis of race or intelligence is a question better decided in the towers of the New York Times rather than by individuals directly involved.
So what do we as conservatives say to all this? First, the right to discriminate on the basis of race in one's private affairs should be private, one has the right to be a racist or a bigot in his private life. To do so is utterly stupid and often costly, especially if one is in business. To discriminate among races in the application of justice is never to be tolerated because the eternal truth articulated by Thomas Jefferson remains eternal, all men are created equal.
The business sector in a world created by the New York Times must walk a tight rope, it must hire, fire, contract, associate with, franchise, loan and borrow on the basis of merit it wants to avoid bankruptcy but it may not do these things on the basis of race. This proposition, of course, is 180° contrary to the opportunistic assertions of the left who insist that hiring, for example, be done on the basis of race or sex etc even when it discriminates against those of merit.
So universities may discriminate at will even to the point of providing segregated housing but a landlord dare not.
In my judgment it would take a whole generation of Ashkenazi Jews to think differently enough and long enough to tell me the logic of invidious discriminations that have been foisted upon us over the years by the New York Times and its adherents.
