tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post5413954312093274071..comments2024-03-28T16:22:14.888-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Not by meUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-75882220501363098882010-11-14T13:33:33.482-08:002010-11-14T13:33:33.482-08:00re blacks and higher ed., I heard a great quote on...re blacks and higher ed., I heard a great quote on a BART train going through Berkeley about 5 years ago. it was two old buddies who hadn't seen each other for awhile. One says he's attending Cal. The other responds, "Ethnic Studies?" Ya gotta like how quickly blacks can get to the point.helene edwardsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-58333482747206931522010-11-14T08:03:53.629-08:002010-11-14T08:03:53.629-08:00"If it worked, it would be worth every penny,..."If it worked, it would be worth every penny, even if it cost us as much as the whole Defense budget. Taking 38 million people and boosting their IQ, in effect, by one sigma would be a huge win at almost any price. We'd save enough on falling crime rates and empty prisons to pay for the extra universities and doctors' offices and patent clerks."<br /><br />Do you really believe it would be worth it? Maybe we would just end up with smarter criminals,<br />malcontents and sociopaths.<br /><br />When all the egg-headed talk ends, what are we left with? Should we just try to re-institute segregation? Do we just seperate? Can different groups live together in a way that is beneficial for everyone?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48814381551801789272010-11-12T21:25:54.535-08:002010-11-12T21:25:54.535-08:00>And what happened to fear of acting white?<...>And what happened to fear of acting white?<<br /><br />That's an old conservative meme. "Not right for us" at the NYT.<br /><br />>Take that, blacks!<<br /><br />Take what? Another trillion dollars? (Two can play the "I'm a mean, unserious snark" game.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26032673361304365262010-11-12T18:12:36.372-08:002010-11-12T18:12:36.372-08:00There is an important pattern here, which you see ...There is an important pattern here, which you see all the time in politics: There is an official "party line" which everyone is supposed to at least pretend to believe. You can tell you're dealing with the party line when, if you were to call it into question, people around you would be shocked or dismayed or would assume bad things about you. <br /><br />The party line is shaped by all kinds of stuff--PR, government initiatives, propoganda, political compromises between different factions, etc. The process that shapes it has little to do with truth, though often it's pretty close to the truth. <br /><br />When the party line is close to the truth, political discussions and news reporting and private discussions all are about something like reality. As a result, people can broadly come to sensible conclusions, and politicians can run on policies that make some sense.<br /><br />The further the party line is from reality, the more destructive it is. People whose picture of reality is shaped by a party line at odds with reality will make horrible decisions. Reporters and pundits won't do a good job reporting on the issue, and politicians will support policies that don't make any sense, even if both groups know the party line is bullshit. Because their success is dependent on keeping their readers/voters happy with them. Thus, you'll often see people who know the party line is bullshit being its biggest public boosters.<br /><br />Education policy is a place where the party line is horribly at odds with reality. (The war on terror is another example.) The map that every respectable source of information offers us of the territory is so wrong, it's impossible not to get lost following it. So long as this is true, our education policy can't make any sense. Presumably Joel Klein and Michelle Rhee and Barack Obama and George W Bush and many other reasonably bright, worldly, cynical people understand that the performance gap probably reflects something that can't be fixed by better schools. But they can never say that in public, can never even act in ways that suggest they believe it, lest they be shown to not believe in that which all right-thinking, serious people believe. And so we get gaming of test scores, and loudly-announced, quietly-shut-down programs to close the performance gap, and elaborate theories to explain what's going on that never get to the important issue. They can't. <br /><br />The bigger the issue, and the bigger the disconnect with reality, the more destructive this becomes. Being unable to think straight about race in the US, right now, is IMO responsible for a lot of the most broken parts of US society. (Ironically, those parts mostly screw over blacks, especially poor blacks.)none of the abovenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35630234256114906702010-11-12T15:16:15.175-08:002010-11-12T15:16:15.175-08:00Whiskey:
If it worked, it would be worth every pe...Whiskey:<br /><br />If it worked, it would be worth every penny, even if it cost us as much as the whole Defense budget. Taking 38 million people and boosting their IQ, in effect, by one sigma would be a huge win at almost any price. We'd save enough on falling crime rates and empty prisons to pay for the extra universities and doctors' offices and patent clerks. <br /><br />The problem isn't that we're trying to do it but can't pay for it, the problem is that we're trying to do it while carefully ignoring some really big and important data that suggest it may not be possible.none of the abovenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40843606516570547232010-11-12T15:05:46.107-08:002010-11-12T15:05:46.107-08:00Somewhat related...did you read the attack by spor...Somewhat related...did you read the attack by sportswriter John Feinstein on Mike Shanahan for his yanking of D. McNabb in the last two minutes of a game? Seems he called Shanahan a racist.<br /><br />Here's Rick Reilly of ESPN's retort:<br /><br />http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=5795495<br /><br />I like that this guy called out another for a ridiculous claim.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70013188695906155072010-11-12T14:38:06.851-08:002010-11-12T14:38:06.851-08:00An Anonymous said:
Obviously only the lowest per...An Anonymous said:<br /><br /><br /><i>Obviously only the lowest performing whites on average are attending Baltimore public schools, so sure from this tiny select population, there is a higher white dropout rate. It would be interesting to test dropouts to see how low functioning they actually are. My guess is that once whites see the writing on the wall, they are more likely to get out since no one is begging them to stay.</i><br /><br /><br /><br />My guess is that, sensibly, they realise they have less to lose by leaving as soon as possible than by staying if they're a white minority in a --- possibly --- rough school.<br /><br />Education is a good thing, but keeping one's health takes precedence.Claverhousehttp://www.serene-falcon.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46921448064954930582010-11-12T14:00:47.743-08:002010-11-12T14:00:47.743-08:00Could you please write an article about this: Swed...<i>Could you please write an article about this: Sweden is going crazy.</i><br /><br />Sure, it seems to outdo even our own National Endowment for the Arts (then again, maybe not...) but otherwise this is par for the course. Thankfully, after the latest election, Sweden's parliament is only 94% libtard rather than 100%.corvinusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10741621888975430902010-11-12T13:37:30.809-08:002010-11-12T13:37:30.809-08:00Anonymous says:
"In denouncing Bernanke, eve...Anonymous says:<br /><br /><i>"In denouncing Bernanke, even the Chinese are not all wrong. They have followed the monetary policy we created at Bretton Woods in 1944, where we tied the dollar to gold at $35 an ounce, while other nations tied their currencies to the dollar at fixed rates of exchange.<br />China is being denounced for manipulating its currency when Beijing is adhering to a strict dollar-renminbi exchange rate, while our Fed is manipulating the dollar price to seek competitive advantage."</i><br /><br /><a href="http://dealbreaker.com/2010/10/ten-years-ago-paul-tudor-jones-had-an-acute-case-of-plantar-fasciitis/#more-30035" rel="nofollow">Paul Tudor Jones</a> says:<br /><br /><i>"<b>On January 1, 1994, China devalued its currency by 50% in a single day, and since then has experienced a manufacturing boom</b>. After 15 years of impressive productivity gains relative to its trading partners, though, it now resists the smallest appreciation. (The IMF implies the RMB could be as much as 30% undervalued taking 2000 as a base, but absolute purchasing power parity would argue that undervaluation is even greater— possibly as much as 60%.) Clearly, there is a direct correlation between the six million manufacturing jobs lost in the US and the close to twelve million manufacturing jobs gained in China over the last two decades."</i>Davenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-77285593466001404192010-11-12T12:28:46.317-08:002010-11-12T12:28:46.317-08:00", any sentient reader will deduce that or at...", any sentient reader will deduce that or at least CONSIDER it....<br /><br />agree???????<br />"<br /><br />No. The crimethink warning kicks in and they will resolutely refuse to consider it, or to consider that they're not considering it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24441805218695370412010-11-12T10:39:16.542-08:002010-11-12T10:39:16.542-08:00"There’s accumulating evidence that there are..."There’s accumulating evidence that there are racial differences in what kids experience before the first day of kindergarten,”<br /><br />NO SHIT SHERLOCK!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-6130581161889202922010-11-12T09:18:52.912-08:002010-11-12T09:18:52.912-08:00When I was at Abraham Lincoln high in San Francisc...When I was at Abraham Lincoln high in San Francisco, I remember thinking how proficient the black kids were at hitting Abe's portrain in the library with spitballs.alonzo portfolionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18483612485692984722010-11-12T08:48:00.591-08:002010-11-12T08:48:00.591-08:00Where is all the money going to come from to push ...Where is all the money going to come from to push Black and Hispanic achievement upwards? Really?<br /><br />FT is predicting "Agflation" with basic commodities corn, soybeans, cotton, sugar, etc. skyrocketing, along with oil (WTI over $90 now) and of course, electricity. India, Russia, Pakistan, China, have all put export quotas in place. Meanwhile Fed printing of dollars QE2 means commodity inflation. <br /><br />Spare cash will go to paying skyrocketing food prices, not social engineering of dubious benefit.Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83449686531108033542010-11-12T07:29:47.894-08:002010-11-12T07:29:47.894-08:00Look out! HBD has a new spokesperson. If you wan...Look out! HBD has a new <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65aSdUMSJmY" rel="nofollow">spokesperson</a>. If you want race realism to be relevant in civil society, then job one must be developing a moderate form with a little less ugliness.nooffensebuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02461190919466049463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90329377102980626662010-11-12T05:04:25.614-08:002010-11-12T05:04:25.614-08:00“There’s accumulating evidence that there are raci...“There’s accumulating evidence that there are racial differences in what kids experience before the first day of kindergarten,” said Ronald Ferguson, director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard. “They have to do with a lot of sociological and historical forces. In order to address those, we have to be able to have conversations that people are unwilling to have.”<br /><br />Yeah, like the history of natural selection in sub Saharan Africa.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-869238570257942132010-11-12T02:25:22.652-08:002010-11-12T02:25:22.652-08:00It's an interesting framing "this is a pr...It's an interesting framing "this is a problem to be solved, middle class black boys are failing to do better than poor white boys".<br /><br />Putting aside HBD monomaniacal concerns, that lacks a comprehensively progressive feel to it and any sort of explicit self-awareness about it.<br /><br />It's neither technocratic nor socialist. Maybe I'd describe it as a campaign for telescopic philanthropy by black americans. Alternatively, it could be part of a general black people/southern white people coordination pageant for attentional privilege, sort of like the endless "battles" with Al Sharpton & Jesse Jackson on one side and Pat Buchanan and Bill O'Reilly on the other side (today perhaps substitute Glenn Beck). In that framework, I think the blandly technocratic are the losers. And I suppose some other populations like Chinese Americans and perhaps middle class whites, particularly non-southern like the large, hardworking, German & Scandinavian American populations of the Midwest.<br /><br />Hopefully Anonymous<br /><br />http://www.hopeanon.typepad.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42066114827411472842010-11-12T01:06:57.982-08:002010-11-12T01:06:57.982-08:00You know it is spin when a simple artifact of the ...<i>You know it is spin when a simple artifact of the data is the last word of an article. Obviously only the lowest performing whites on average are attending Baltimore public schools, so sure from this tiny select population, there is a higher white dropout rate. It would be interesting to test dropouts to see how low functioning they actually are. My guess is that once whites see the writing on the wall, they are more likely to get out since no one is begging them to stay. Also dropout rate calculation methods can be quite dubious</i>.<br /><br />If you look at the report, it shows that the white male dropout rate has been between 5 and 7 percent for years, whereas the black male rate has been between 8 to 12 percent. Probably there were specific measures taken to reduce the black rate to 4.9 percent in Baltimore, while white males there dropped out at their usual rate, i.e. between 5 and 7 percent.THnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-58359441864758815152010-11-12T00:41:49.918-08:002010-11-12T00:41:49.918-08:00OT
Hehe.
http://www.vdare.com/buchanan/101111_do...OT<br /><br />Hehe.<br /><br />http://www.vdare.com/buchanan/101111_dollar.htm<br /><br />"In denouncing Bernanke, even the Chinese are not all wrong. They have followed the monetary policy we created at Bretton Woods in 1944, where we tied the dollar to gold at $35 an ounce, while other nations tied their currencies to the dollar at fixed rates of exchange. <br />China is being denounced for manipulating its currency when Beijing is adhering to a strict dollar-renminbi exchange rate, while our Fed is manipulating the dollar price to seek competitive advantage. <br />The other Chinese complaint is that they lent us trillions to buy Chinese goods and now we are robbing them by depreciating the dollar-denominated Treasury bonds they accepted in return for their goods."<br /><br />Lmao. I knew it, I knew it, I knew it!! I knew that the Jews would outmanuever the Chinese. In the end, Jews own all. And stupid Chinese thought they were gonna become the next great power. But in the world, the global economy is like a casino where the House is owned by Jews. Chinese can bring a lot of cash to play but in the end, they'll lose.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10735338966665691292010-11-11T22:18:50.880-08:002010-11-11T22:18:50.880-08:00“There’s accumulating evidence that there are raci...“There’s accumulating evidence that there are racial differences in what kids experience before the first day of kindergarten,” said Ronald Ferguson, director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard. “They have to do with a lot of sociological and historical forces. In order to address those, we have to be able to have conversations that people are unwilling to have.”<br /><br /> 1. if he's laying the groundwork for early-child intervention of 2 and 3 yos, stand by for the lawsuits 20 years from now when those children claim they were 'stolen' from their families and denied their cultural heritage.<br /> 2. anyone want to place odds on the likelihood of America having conversations that they haven't previously wanted to have?<br /> 3. kudos to the guy from the Achievement Gap Initiative for resisting saying 'Kerr-chiiiing!'Tom Regannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33063481605858342152010-11-11T21:19:05.330-08:002010-11-11T21:19:05.330-08:00Interesting that black males have a high drop-out ...Interesting that black males have a high drop-out rate and low SAT scores, but still seem to get into college at similar rates as other groups... So, success! Except it doesn't mention the drop-out rate in college, which is nearly 70% for black males.Antioco Dascalonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10617669156986603638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63009556011292830122010-11-11T21:10:20.273-08:002010-11-11T21:10:20.273-08:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u-mihtgTm0&fea...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u-mihtgTm0&feature=player_embedded<br /><br />OK, you are shi**ing me!<br /><br />At least they could have gotten some nicer looking African women, the black ladies in this video look ugly as sin.<br /><br />Perhaps this is an anti "mix it up" propaganda, as it achieves exactly the opposite effect of the one intended?<br /><br />Or... best troll ever.AmericanGoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00865892490752172185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61696720978844528682010-11-11T20:48:12.099-08:002010-11-11T20:48:12.099-08:00"This is genocide of whites!"
Not genoc..."This is genocide of whites!"<br /><br />Not genocide but genecide, genetic dissolution of a people through excessive mixing.adsfasdfasdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74674235201579719972010-11-11T20:02:30.406-08:002010-11-11T20:02:30.406-08:00From whence this perception? It's a product of...<i><br />From whence this perception? It's a product of your white, male, Christian, gentile (or quasi-gentile/semi-gentile), American, Western, capitalist, non-developmentally-challenged privilege[s] that you would infer such by quoting the headline<br /></i><br /><br />You forgot heterosexual and hetero-normative ... they are the worst traits.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61206437347105649752010-11-11T18:59:02.719-08:002010-11-11T18:59:02.719-08:00"Can someone explain to me how we could incre..."<i>Can someone explain to me how we could increase teaching standards to the degree that the majority of people who would be our future teachers are now ineligible? Are there that many childless white ladies out there?</i>"<br /><br />Easy. Take out the requirement for a Masters in Education. Then, some non-stupid college graduates can teach in high school who were blocked before, as they didn't want to spend 10 Grand and waste a year of their life sitting in classes with the morons who are education majors (not to mention opportunity costs over that one year).<br /><br />But, there's a lot of people in on this scam, so it would be hard to nix this requirement. Maybe Gov. Christie could push this in NJ. Best he stay armed though, as those union people don't let go of power easily. You may wake up and realize you're buried under the end-zone of Giant's stadium, or possibly you are human rebar buried in the foundation.Mel Tormenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53560875455845875422010-11-11T18:58:53.685-08:002010-11-11T18:58:53.685-08:00Not once did the New York Times mention stereotype...<i>Not once did the New York Times mention stereotype threat.</i><br /><br />And what happened to fear of acting white?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com