Sometimes they tell you what they're thinking, not realizing what that reveals about them. It's going to be VERY interesting to see how the people who have made careers around racism in higher education try to continue doing it while pretending to stop it.
Sometimes they tell you what they're thinking, not realizing what that reveals about them. It's going to be VERY interesting to see how the people who have made careers around racism in higher education try to continue doing it while pretending to stop it.
Imo folks who think like this are immune from the cognitive dissonance a normal person would have between being a wannabe slave master and a virtue signaling slave.
Amy Wax is at University of Pennsylvania Law School. She is being dragged before a kangaroo court there on charges of racism so she can be fired in spite of having tenure. She is a physician attorney (like me) but also a real American hero. If she were at Princeton (my alma mater) she would have been fired long ago. At Princeton they just make up Soviet-style fake charges of sexual improprieties to throw out anyone who makes mildly dissident comments (as Princeton Classics Professor Joshua Katz found out last year when he criticized race-based privileges for Ivy League professors). Interesting that so many Jewish academics are speaking out against the new race regime---almost as if they see some parallel between our current Regime and the 1930s racist Nazi Nuremberg laws.
Ho hum - " continue doing it while pretending to stop it" - they found that very easy post Bakke 1978 (on the basis of a single sentence in a minority opinion) - I am sure there are backup plans and terminology well prepared for the incoming class of 2024 and in 45 years SCOTUS will say "stop it!" once again. That's the way the game is played.
Well, Roberts' said that evading the ruling by using student essays, etc.. would not be tolerated...Which indicates to me that disparate impact might be turned around to stop such shenanigans...
Thanks ... err, I didn't read the opinion; so he is preemptively blocking the Powell sleight of hand? And looking a bit more at Bakke, Powell voted with the majority (in favor of Bakke) but issued his own opinion with the famous "diversity" argument (which included more than but boiled down to a single sentence). And so the ruling prohibiting AA actually promoted and fueled it. (And Google will tell aspiring scholars that Bakke "permitted" AA. Winston Smith lives!) Powell claimed to be also standing up for the opportunities of "farm boys from Idaho" (yeah right, you can probably count the white, fly-over, (non-legacy) undergrads at Harvard on a couple of hands). https://www.californialawreview.org/print/diversity-to-deradicalize
That is true and why the warning about the Military Industrial Complex being leveraged against our freedoms. You need a strong President like assassinated John F Kennedy who was wiling to out the WEF. To say no to the Hawks in the never elected Service. Presidents cannot fire. I don't know if the damage is reparable but defeatism is disarming.
It's hard to call it 'racism' though. It's more a tacit acknowledgement that US blacks are cognitively ill-suited to meritocracy - which is not 'racist', it's just a fact.
I don't think people should dunk on Missy 'Nilla-Wafer for letting the gatito out of the bolsa: she is literally saying what everyone KNOWS.
There's some difference of opinion on whether the cognitive shortcomings of US blacks result from genetics, or from environmental stressors - that is, "nature or nurture"... in the typically-American quest for a one-dimensional answer that can be a slogan, its considered an XOR rather than an AND.
In the civilised West, the argument starts with AND: the difference of opinion is the relative weights of each.
Environmental stressors can be 'fixed' - so those who favour policy-correctives want the accepted evaluation of the 'nurture' contribution to be
(1) as large as possible;
(2) external to dysgenic family dynamics; and
(3) amenable to social-policy-based correctives.
That's a stupid triple: it assumes that the bureaucratic machinery will not be captured by grifters and shitbags - which would make it the only area of government where everyone's an angel who does their job.
Genetic shortcomings have to work their way out: if the IQ data is to be believed, you can take an ethny from lice-infested shitholes in Lithuania and Poland, send them to Germany and the US, and breed rocket scientists in 3 generations purely by selective in-breeding. (I don't believe that data, so...)
The "nurturists" don't want to consider the prospect that only 25% of the cognitive gap can be closed even if all sociocultural issues were eliminated.
Why do they want it to be 'mostly sociocultural'?
Well, if it's 75% genetic, completeyl eliminating the adverse cultural drivers would leave the behaviour - and outcomes - largely unchanged because the LHS of the curve would still be in pretty bad territory; blacks at the black median would get outcomes similar to whites at the 40th percentile (and whites at the 40th percentile aren't paragons).
There would still be almost no blacks at the all-comers 97th percentile, because of how distributions work - and 97th percentile is what it takes to be a STEM chad. I would go further: a 97th percentile kiddie is going to get to STEM chadhood IFF they work hard and use Arch (btw).
Have you or the Bad Cat every done one of those "Random Thoughts" columns that Thomas Sowell used to do?
I enjoy them. Which is why, about every six months or so, I do one.
Random Covid thoughts on that shocking placebo story, RFK, Jr., DeSantis, "Joe Biden" and his debauches son ... and bears swimming in the Gulf of Mexico ....
Sometimes they tell you what they're thinking, not realizing what that reveals about them. It's going to be VERY interesting to see how the people who have made careers around racism in higher education try to continue doing it while pretending to stop it.
Very interesting indeed.
She's a translucent Chez Whitey who's basically saying all blacks are Homey D. Clown's and need a leg up.
Seriously, the apotheosis of stupidity....and racism.
Not only stupid--entirely ignorant of American history.
Imo folks who think like this are immune from the cognitive dissonance a normal person would have between being a wannabe slave master and a virtue signaling slave.
Homey don't play 'dat.
Thwack!
Best show ever.
A show that could NEVER be made today.
My favorite skit was Dwyane and Antwon - Men On Film.
Yes- if any conservative wrote that line about blacks not being able to compete in a merit-based system, it would be instant cancellation.
Princeton Law Professor Amy Wax said just that several years ago and backed up her assertions with data. I believe she had an early retirement.
Amy Wax is at University of Pennsylvania Law School. She is being dragged before a kangaroo court there on charges of racism so she can be fired in spite of having tenure. She is a physician attorney (like me) but also a real American hero. If she were at Princeton (my alma mater) she would have been fired long ago. At Princeton they just make up Soviet-style fake charges of sexual improprieties to throw out anyone who makes mildly dissident comments (as Princeton Classics Professor Joshua Katz found out last year when he criticized race-based privileges for Ivy League professors). Interesting that so many Jewish academics are speaking out against the new race regime---almost as if they see some parallel between our current Regime and the 1930s racist Nazi Nuremberg laws.
Yup. Time for cultural secession. Get out and join new systems. Wax told the truth.
Ho hum - " continue doing it while pretending to stop it" - they found that very easy post Bakke 1978 (on the basis of a single sentence in a minority opinion) - I am sure there are backup plans and terminology well prepared for the incoming class of 2024 and in 45 years SCOTUS will say "stop it!" once again. That's the way the game is played.
Well, Roberts' said that evading the ruling by using student essays, etc.. would not be tolerated...Which indicates to me that disparate impact might be turned around to stop such shenanigans...
Thanks ... err, I didn't read the opinion; so he is preemptively blocking the Powell sleight of hand? And looking a bit more at Bakke, Powell voted with the majority (in favor of Bakke) but issued his own opinion with the famous "diversity" argument (which included more than but boiled down to a single sentence). And so the ruling prohibiting AA actually promoted and fueled it. (And Google will tell aspiring scholars that Bakke "permitted" AA. Winston Smith lives!) Powell claimed to be also standing up for the opportunities of "farm boys from Idaho" (yeah right, you can probably count the white, fly-over, (non-legacy) undergrads at Harvard on a couple of hands). https://www.californialawreview.org/print/diversity-to-deradicalize
It has a parallel in amnesty for illegals. (Reagan's '86 folly, when the Dems reneged on their end of the deal, a tighter border.)
Reagan's single biggest mistake
Don't forget the jab National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act 1986...
In fairness, wasn't that back when we *trusted* big science?
He's still waiting for the spending cuts he was promised.
A distant second, imo.
Naming a neocon spook, who called the free market "voodoo economics", as his VP in '80 is the WOAT.
That is true and why the warning about the Military Industrial Complex being leveraged against our freedoms. You need a strong President like assassinated John F Kennedy who was wiling to out the WEF. To say no to the Hawks in the never elected Service. Presidents cannot fire. I don't know if the damage is reparable but defeatism is disarming.
You canтАЩt counter racism by choosing people on the basis of race.
It's hard to call it 'racism' though. It's more a tacit acknowledgement that US blacks are cognitively ill-suited to meritocracy - which is not 'racist', it's just a fact.
I don't think people should dunk on Missy 'Nilla-Wafer for letting the gatito out of the bolsa: she is literally saying what everyone KNOWS.
There's some difference of opinion on whether the cognitive shortcomings of US blacks result from genetics, or from environmental stressors - that is, "nature or nurture"... in the typically-American quest for a one-dimensional answer that can be a slogan, its considered an XOR rather than an AND.
In the civilised West, the argument starts with AND: the difference of opinion is the relative weights of each.
Environmental stressors can be 'fixed' - so those who favour policy-correctives want the accepted evaluation of the 'nurture' contribution to be
(1) as large as possible;
(2) external to dysgenic family dynamics; and
(3) amenable to social-policy-based correctives.
That's a stupid triple: it assumes that the bureaucratic machinery will not be captured by grifters and shitbags - which would make it the only area of government where everyone's an angel who does their job.
Genetic shortcomings have to work their way out: if the IQ data is to be believed, you can take an ethny from lice-infested shitholes in Lithuania and Poland, send them to Germany and the US, and breed rocket scientists in 3 generations purely by selective in-breeding. (I don't believe that data, so...)
The "nurturists" don't want to consider the prospect that only 25% of the cognitive gap can be closed even if all sociocultural issues were eliminated.
Why do they want it to be 'mostly sociocultural'?
Well, if it's 75% genetic, completeyl eliminating the adverse cultural drivers would leave the behaviour - and outcomes - largely unchanged because the LHS of the curve would still be in pretty bad territory; blacks at the black median would get outcomes similar to whites at the 40th percentile (and whites at the 40th percentile aren't paragons).
There would still be almost no blacks at the all-comers 97th percentile, because of how distributions work - and 97th percentile is what it takes to be a STEM chad. I would go further: a 97th percentile kiddie is going to get to STEM chadhood IFF they work hard and use Arch (btw).
Have you or the Bad Cat every done one of those "Random Thoughts" columns that Thomas Sowell used to do?
I enjoy them. Which is why, about every six months or so, I do one.
Random Covid thoughts on that shocking placebo story, RFK, Jr., DeSantis, "Joe Biden" and his debauches son ... and bears swimming in the Gulf of Mexico ....
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/random-thoughts-on-the-passing-new?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2