Danish genetic researcher, Emil Kirkegaard, had a recent study asking 500 Americans what they considered to be the greatest taboos. Racial hereditary and IQ disparities were by far the greatest taboo, beating out incest, p-dophilia, gay germs, and anti-Semitism. Unfortunately, I am very pessimistic about hereditarian thinking being normalized anytime soon, and
Mayorkas, Yellen, Blinken, Garland, Zients, Haines, Kagan, Nuland, Kristol, Jared, etc. It is perfectly reasonable to lay the problems of our current society at the feet of the Jews. They have most of the power. Correlation may not be causation, but you cannot claim that eliminating antisemitism has made the country a better place. There is no intrinsic value that can be claimed. I think our country was a better place when more people were anti-Semitic. Where am I wrong? Clinging to unsubstantiated dogma is not an argument.
A lot of hereditarian writers have a massive and unprincipled blind spot regarding Jewish people and are unnecessarily hostile to anyone discussing the subject. There is no reason why one cannot talk about differences in behavior and cognitive profiles between Jews and non-Jews any more than one can talk about these things in any other permutation of comparison between groups. A lot of the arguments thrown around by HBD writers at anyone who enters these taboo discussions are highly similar to the weak arguments that are always used against them by environmentalists: "you're just jealous," "this will lead to harm," "you're just trying to rationalize hate," "they're not a monolith, everyone is just a unique individual," etc. They only bring up biological differences when they want to laud Jews for their various accomplishments, but if anyone highlights a trend among Jews which tends to be seen as negatively reflecting on them, then you're just some low-IQ interloper in the space who's no different than some stereotypical conservative boogeyman of the campus Marxist trying to foment discord between people using simple and totalistic narratives. A lot of people often will just be disingenuous and ignore arguments people are actually making. An example of this is asserting that anyone who brings attention to Jewish representation in some field or behavioral tendency must necessarily believe in a "conspiracy" despite the fact that it would be just as ridiculous to believe that someone who brings up other group differences such as the careers chosen by men and women or various life outcomes between different ethnic groups is assuming that these differences are the result of conspiracy. This is particularly obnoxious when coming from people who claim to be willing to engage with good faith communication for any subject regardless of how condemned it is by mainstream institutions, figures, or worldviews.
The taboo on recognising innate traits/abilities is a self-imposed Western hang-up that hobbles the US in competition with more honest or realistic states. How affordable this is over the long-term remains to be seen.
There's a potential issue with the phrasing of the question. Respondents may have answered according to what they thought was the greatest societal taboo, not according to their own personal taboos.
DeSantis makes anti-Semitism legislation his highest priority and flies to Israel to sign it. Not an issue for 98 percent of his supporters. Red states are passing antisemitism legislation without any demand from their voters. South Dakota literally has a 250 Jews.
Given the advance of both DNA tracing and AI’s ability to query ever-broader information sources, it will be interesting to watch the contortions of the anti-hereditarian cohort as they try to mask reality. Racial cohorts have different IQ potential. As Sailer notes, this is “the most documented finding in the history of the social sciences.” The longer the anti-h nonsense continues, the greater the fall of “experts” in the minds of the public. We ALL can see this on a daily basis, both in ability to think and capacity to think quickly. We are NOT “all created equal,” and differentiation at the macro level between racial cohorts is undeniable. Except to the - LOL - “experts.”
Mayorkas, Yellen, Blinken, Garland, Zients, Haines, Kagan, Nuland, Kristol, Jared, etc. It is perfectly reasonable to lay the problems of our current society at the feet of the Jews. They have most of the power. Correlation may not be causation, but you cannot claim that eliminating antisemitism has made the country a better place. There is no intrinsic value that can be claimed. I think our country was a better place when more people were anti-Semitic. Where am I wrong? Clinging to unsubstantiated dogma is not an argument.
A lot of hereditarian writers have a massive and unprincipled blind spot regarding Jewish people and are unnecessarily hostile to anyone discussing the subject. There is no reason why one cannot talk about differences in behavior and cognitive profiles between Jews and non-Jews any more than one can talk about these things in any other permutation of comparison between groups. A lot of the arguments thrown around by HBD writers at anyone who enters these taboo discussions are highly similar to the weak arguments that are always used against them by environmentalists: "you're just jealous," "this will lead to harm," "you're just trying to rationalize hate," "they're not a monolith, everyone is just a unique individual," etc. They only bring up biological differences when they want to laud Jews for their various accomplishments, but if anyone highlights a trend among Jews which tends to be seen as negatively reflecting on them, then you're just some low-IQ interloper in the space who's no different than some stereotypical conservative boogeyman of the campus Marxist trying to foment discord between people using simple and totalistic narratives. A lot of people often will just be disingenuous and ignore arguments people are actually making. An example of this is asserting that anyone who brings attention to Jewish representation in some field or behavioral tendency must necessarily believe in a "conspiracy" despite the fact that it would be just as ridiculous to believe that someone who brings up other group differences such as the careers chosen by men and women or various life outcomes between different ethnic groups is assuming that these differences are the result of conspiracy. This is particularly obnoxious when coming from people who claim to be willing to engage with good faith communication for any subject regardless of how condemned it is by mainstream institutions, figures, or worldviews.
Agree 100 percent. "Don't look at the man behind the curtain or your dumb" stunt failed.
The taboo on recognising innate traits/abilities is a self-imposed Western hang-up that hobbles the US in competition with more honest or realistic states. How affordable this is over the long-term remains to be seen.
Unsubstantiated. You're making the diversity is our strength argument. This country is turning into a third world hellhole. You should be proud.
There's a potential issue with the phrasing of the question. Respondents may have answered according to what they thought was the greatest societal taboo, not according to their own personal taboos.
DeSantis makes anti-Semitism legislation his highest priority and flies to Israel to sign it. Not an issue for 98 percent of his supporters. Red states are passing antisemitism legislation without any demand from their voters. South Dakota literally has a 250 Jews.
Good stuff, Robert!
Given the advance of both DNA tracing and AI’s ability to query ever-broader information sources, it will be interesting to watch the contortions of the anti-hereditarian cohort as they try to mask reality. Racial cohorts have different IQ potential. As Sailer notes, this is “the most documented finding in the history of the social sciences.” The longer the anti-h nonsense continues, the greater the fall of “experts” in the minds of the public. We ALL can see this on a daily basis, both in ability to think and capacity to think quickly. We are NOT “all created equal,” and differentiation at the macro level between racial cohorts is undeniable. Except to the - LOL - “experts.”
statistics is really a sort of astrology
pop science for non numerate people
linear regressions as seen in the last series of twitter figures extrapolate from such noisy data they truly are meaningless