Jason DeParle's article in the New York Times, "Two Classes, Divided by 'I Do,'" about a white woman who had three kids with her black boyfriend, who has now abandoned his offspring without a penny was interesting for multiple reasons. One is that out of the voluminous comments that were either NYT Picks or Readers' Favorites, very, very few, if any, mentioned that perhaps society ought to try to do a better job of letting young women know that black guys are, statistically speaking, more likely to:
- heedlessly impregnate them
- not marry them
- not support their offspring
Has anybody ever calculated the odds?
Smart girls seem mostly to figure this kind of thing out for themselves, but not so bright girls ... not so much. Women are pretty good at conforming to social norms, but when the smart people keep the norms a secret, the not-smart women (and, more importantly, their children) suffer.
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Feminists...
She looks pretty prole. Watching one episode of Maury Povich would have told her what she was doing wasn't a good idea.
I would guess that miscegenating parents tend to feel less commitment to their kids.
Doesn't mean the abandoned kids can't grow up with a horrid chip on their shoulder and become President. Just not a sensible President.
I was at the Westlake Village Costco last weekend, and there were a ton of muscular, middle class-looking black dudes with their white wives and adorable children in tow. Anecdotal of course, but they seemed to be sticking around.
Quite the opposite is happening, Steve.
Watch the Dancing with the Stars type programs and you'll see that the media is sending dumb young white women precisely the opposite message...
... You are an exciting cultural heroine if you mate with a black man.
"Smart girls seem mostly to figure this kind of thing out for themselves"
I like to refer to it as cunning.
It takes a thief to know a thief.
The other being parallels with that of religion, whereas libs would imagine dirty priests frightening young women into sex by calling them sinners, today they respond to chants of raciss
(though "lesbians be sexist" doesn't work, who?whom? all the way)
Speaking of which, the unspeakable was spoken tonight on Bill O'Reilly with his media "expert," former CBS news correspondent, Bernie Goldberg. Bernie zeroed in, along with O'Reilly, on black crime and black dysfunction and their relationship to missing black fathers. (O'Reilly has been highlighting the Chicago violence that the MSM is ignoring.) They didn't dance around the topic either. It was blunt.
I loved what Goldberg said when asked about O'Reilly's previous guest, Mr. Smile With MY Big Teeth, Mr. Perennial Politician,Mr. Term-Limited former Speaker of the State Assembly, the former Mayor of San Fran, The Honorable Motor Mouth and Bull Sh-T artist, Mr. Wille Brown.
Mr. Brown said that Mr. Romney didn't speak to his NAACP audience as he should have. He flat out said that the guv should have told the members of the NAACP just what is was he could do FOR blacks. It was clear he meant Mr. Romney should have told those great representatives of the poor-souled black folk of this nation just what hand-outs he had in mind for them and them alone. After all, they need them. Funny how Mr. Brown and people like him don't even talk any more of why they need them or why others don't need them or why they deserve them and others don't deserve them. Oh, he was pretty damn brazen as Ole Will is known to be. He got that Amos 'n Andy laugh and personality goin' so dat people can't really be dat mad at what he say.
When O'Reilly told Mr. Brown that saying something to that black audience that he didn't say to another audience would have been pandering and dishonest, good ole Willie said "NO! He should have told them, it was only appropriate that he tell them, just what he would do FOR BLACKS."
Pretty transparent he was. Yeah, after all those billions we've thrown at black people for a half a century, ole Willie showed they are brazen about saying, "More."
Okay, so on come Goldberg who said, "You know what Mr. Romney should have told that NAACP audience? That in the '50s less than 25 % of black kids were born out of wedlock and now over 75% of them are. Mr. Romney should have told them, 'I can't do a damn thing to stop that. So for all your professed concern about black unemployment, first you have to address the problem of black kids, particularly black males, growing up without a daddy, then reaching the age when they don't mind their mamas any more, and going out and being violent,killing each other and innocent children. No President can solve that. You need to address that yourselves and until you do, it'll just get worse. You need to be fathers and stop letting Big Daddy Government raise your kids.'
By God, the fantasy of Mr. Romney telling them that just shook me up good. Alas, it's a fantasy, but I now am in love with Bernie Goldberg, a guy whose straight talk I've always appreciated.
Actually, he and Dennis Miller, who's on the show on Wednesdays, are the two reasons I tune in twice a week to O'Reilly.
Seems the subject is out there in the open and I've a feeling the emails to Mr. O'Reilly tonight will hit an all-time high.
Maybe it was more that she enjoyed the idea that she'd be the exception. IE, she's a romantic.
Follow your dream is a great story, except when that leads you to ruin. We've stopped telling the ruin stories though. How do SWPL girls no better then? What are there mothers telling them?
2 of the 3 kinds of single moms in this fix are actually reasonably intelligent.
1) yes there are the fools with no future time orientation
2) there are reasonably with-it girls like the one in NYT who are just insular, have no street smarts, and due to cultural and media manipulation overestimated black virtue.
3) girls with a chip on their shoulder who just want to provoke (Stanley Ann was no slouch)
Of my personal acquaintances with black/white partners, which totals about ten (ex) couples, I do believe the failure rate is 100%.
Some of those black guys are nice, intelligent guys, too.
Is it more important for European females to know about fathering trends or about IQ trends?
Roiphe's complaint notwithstanding, the NYT article could have done with a bit MORE judgment:
- Pre-marital sex
- Interracial sex
- Insufficiently protected sex
- bastardy
- "keeping the baby" rather than adoption
- non-marital cohabitation
- more insufficiently protected sex
- more bastardy
- MORE non-marital cohabitation leading to law-enforcement-assisted breakup
The woman's entire life is an epic fail. I can almost sympathize with the way in which she tries to salvage the first set of bad decisions with more bad decisions. But getting pregnant the second and third time was just over the top.
Inkraven called it: the woman is overweight beyond middle class standards of "matronly". I bet if we were to interact with her it would be obvious to us why she's such a trainwreck.
A white woman who sexual intercourse with a black man also runs a higher risk of contracting venereal disease.
More than 50% of adult black Americans are carriers of a venereal disease.
If you calculate those odds they might come in handy for blogging, but not for deciding who to marry or get knocked up by. That's because by that time you've got so much a posteriori information that the a priori probabilities are pretty much worthless.
In fact, the a priori probabilities wouldn't even be that useful for public policy, because you're not even considering other factors like socio-economic status.
Also, I think you've implicitly committed Derbyshire's Fallacy here, though you didn't state it explicitly as he did. It's seems implicit in your "statistically speaking, more likely." Derbyshire's fallacy, of course, is to consider relative probabilities (blacks vs. whites) in situations where absolute, not relative, probabilities are relevant. Thus, even beside the question of a priori or a posteriori, the question is not - or rather, not only - how much more likely black men are to do these things than white men, but how likely they are to do these things, period.
A white woman who sexual intercourse with a black man also runs a higher risk of contracting venereal disease.
Yes, that's one among a long list of negatives. Another approach is to ask people to describe the benefits of race-mixing with blacks; these benefits are_______?
Or, similarly, the tremendous benefits and advantages to be gained from integrating with blacks are__________?
And, hey, that Bernie Goldberg sounds like someone who knows how to say no to blacks. That's a skill every republican could stand to learn, you reckon.
Digging the kid's name in that article. Steavon!
Maybe he could guest blog here.
Correction to my comment above: that should be "the Derbyshire Fallacy," not "Derbyshire's Fallacy."
I wonder if the black dads of mixed race girls ever talk about boys with their daughters.
I'd bet some really do.
It seems to me this foolish woman has basically thrown her life away by shacking up with a useless black man when she could have found a nice decent white man to be with. It is of course, a fundamental act of evil to bring children into this world and have no intention to support or care for them. But hey, at least she gets to congratulate herself on her 'liberalism' and show everybody she is not 'racist'.
Third time was a charm for this woman to learn what Sailer is talking about:
http://www.npr.org/2012/07/11/155103593/to-beat-odds-poor-single-moms-need-wide-safety-net
Worse decisions can still be made.
Just want to say that I am 100% down with your point that when things are left unsaid, here are people who don't pick up the unwritten,unspoken wisdom. I've been noticing this for a long time in ways that have nothing to do with blacks. One example would be "recreational" drugs, another would be the fact that young beautiful women only have a short window of opportunity to find a high status mate. IMO this avoidance of stating the obvious is an additional driver in social stratification. The culture doesn't pull people up any more.
That said, I've seen a lot of black-white couples, and their offspring, in western coastal cities. It isn't always the black guy who splits. A non-trivial fraction of these women are batshit crazy and they're the ones responsible for the breakup.
77.2% of white children age 0-17 live with both parents v 37.7% for black children.
The census also has long kept track of children who live with "mother alone" "never married" by race, but does not break the data down to types of interracial couples.
"Yes, that's one among a long list of negatives. Another approach is to ask people to describe the benefits of race-mixing with blacks; these benefits are_______?"
Isn't it totally obvious?
Giving dweebs like you hypertension so that you don't live to collect medicare.
You have to admit it's a huge public benefit.
Ren:
That story about the South Korean is pretty depressing.
"Third time was a charm for this woman to learn what Sailer is talking about:
http://www.npr.org/2012/07/11/155103593/to-beat-odds-poor-single-moms-need-wide-safety-net"
They need all the guys they wouldn't give the time of day to, to subsidize their lifestyle. I wonder if anyone can spot the long term flaw in this thinking?
What Aaron in Israel said. Better put than I could have.
Another approach is to ask people to describe the benefits of race-mixing with blacks; these benefits are_______?
Uh, their kids will receive affirmative action boosts?
Truth,
Yeah, sometimes people fib, resulting in big consequences for others who are fooled and then make bad decisions.
I have lost a whole bunch of money that way.
I enjoyed your Blanche story. It caused me to wonder what you would have done should, God forbid, through beer googles or hormones or whatever a bad decision had been made.
Would you have been able to stick around?
I think you hit on something, Steve.
We seem to be having assortative mating by IQ. As some medieval saint said, "he-fool marry she-fool". Ironically, while it's endlessly called a catastrophe, this process of black guys impregnating fat low-IQ white women, while I guess the low-IQ white men go after Mexican, Amerindian, and Filipino women, is a subtle way of removing the Wal-Mart crowd out of the white population.
I wonder if the SWPLs realize this, and are letting it happen on purpose...
"Smart girls seem mostly to figure this kind of thing out for themselves, but not so bright girls ... not so much"
I wish this point wasn't true but one thing going on with the smart girls is that they're better at *ahem* "planned parenthood".
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"I was at the Westlake Village Costco last weekend, and there were a ton of muscular, middle class-looking black dudes with their white wives and adorable children in tow. Anecdotal of course, but they seemed to be sticking around."
I don't doubt your anecdotes, but everyone has anecdotes... but there are hard statistics on this and they show that WW-BM relationships are twice as likely to end in divorce as WW-WM relationships.
Here's my anecdote, I had a huge crush one my best friends' little sister... it was a crush I was rather ashamed of because she was like 4 years younger and I would stay at their house a lot... but this girl was extremely "aggressive"... and looking back there was always something "transgressive" about her demeanor... they're a huge white catholic family(8 kids IIRC) in rural central Illinois...
I checked her out on facebook a couple years ago and she has a kid from an aspiring rapper(not joking)/mixed martial artist from East Saint Louis. They are still together but they're not married.
She is kind of cute if you take the picture far enough away... but if you take one up close she's progressively degrading into Courtney Love 2.0.
What is subsidized increases.
Welfare including AFDC, Section 8 housing, etc. is a program to subsidize bastardy. A young woman is given the incentive to produce bastards by the promise of a place of her own.
The American Left subsidizes bastardy in both white and black in order to increase the number of low IQ voters who will naturally vote Democrat.
For the same reason the American left supports open borders with Mexico -- more low IQ Democrat voters.
Uh, their kids will receive affirmative action boosts?
(1) Their kids will be more likely to need it than if they had white kids.
(2)There's no guarantee AA will still be around when those kids are adults.
(3) You can get the same "benefit" by mixing with a hispanic or asian, for much less genetic cost.
The American Left subsidizes bastardy in both white and black in order to increase the number of low IQ voters who will naturally vote Democrat.
For the same reason the American left supports open borders with Mexico -- more low IQ Democrat voters.
I think that's being too cynical. Do you really think there is such widespread awareness that these people are, by and large, congenitally stupid? I think it's more likely that at some level leftists block out awareness of this issue in favor of the social progress paradise they envision taking shape.
"Are there in fact statistics that show this?"
These are from the UK for 2001, but I wouldn't imagine things are a great deal different across the pond. Look at the bottom graphic - 22% of "White British" children in lone-parent families (that will have gone up since then), 54-59% of mixed/Black Caribbean kids in lone parent families. Black Africans do better, but not much.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6753695.stm
The source of these BBC stats is two reports to the UK Parliament on "Young Black People and the Criminal Justice System" - probably in the third link, "The Statistical Evidence".
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmhaff/181/181i.pdf
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmhaff/181/181ii.pdf
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmhaff/181/stats.pdf
You forgot item No. 4:
Kill them.
I think you hit on something, Steve.
We seem to be having assortative mating by IQ. As some medieval saint said, "he-fool marry she-fool". Ironically, while it's endlessly called a catastrophe, this process of black guys impregnating fat low-IQ white women, while I guess the low-IQ white men go after Mexican, Amerindian, and Filipino women, is a subtle way of removing the Wal-Mart crowd out of the white population.
I wonder if the SWPLs realize this, and are letting it happen on purpose...
The danger is the resultant mulattoes gradually infiltrating up the population as men continue to marry down, with attendant changes in intellect and character.
It isn't always the black guy who splits. A non-trivial fraction of these women are batshit crazy and they're the ones responsible for the breakup.
And no one said otherwise.
Its the typical, average outcome that counts for the purposes of this debate.
I would guess that miscegenating parents tend to feel less commitment to their kids.
In some cases the mother can be more closely related to some passing random white stranger than to her own kids.
Apres-deluge, when the Iron Fist takes over, all men who father out of marriage and miss three child support payments will be sterilized. If they father three they will be sterilized even if they are NBA players.
Women who have had three illegitimate children, three abortions, or three children legit or not on welfare will be sterilized. Or any combination of.
Girls from high schools who have an excessive teen pregnancy rate will all be Norplanted. Girls who drop out of school will be Norplanted.
Women are pretty good at conforming to social norms, but when the smart people keep the norms a secret, the not-smart women (and, more importantly, their children) suffer.
Now just try to imagine what would happen if the smart people disseminated all sorts of propaganda and disinformaition and lies which were intentionally designed to bring about the very worst of all possible outcomes for stupid people.
Wreckers rule!
MOO HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!
Rushton's r strategy in action. Spread your seed and move on.
Black men evidently must exude a pheremone that short-circuits women's brains. After all, Stanley Ann Dunham, who, iirc, graduated high school at 16, was obviously no dummy, but made an incredibly bad decision with respect to a certain black African exchange student...
Is it reasonable to say that a white woman doubles her chances of a bad outcome (e.g., out of wedlock pregnancy) if she gets involved with a black man instead of a white man?
"Is it reasonable to say that a white woman doubles her chances of a bad outcome (e.g., out of wedlock pregnancy) if she gets involved with a black man instead of a white man?"
It is not reasonable to say that to a teenage girl. I have two daughters, and I certainly do not plan to sit down with them and go over the actuarial tables showing who is the best bet to get knocked up by in college. I plan to tell them not to get knocked up in college by anyone of any race, color, or creed.
Anon 8:20, I see a few of those around town north of Boston, too. But the brothers are definitely what Whiskey would call beta, and the women are huskier Katie Roiphies. The kids will be the most attractive members of the family.
We have three flavors of interracial couples: white male/Asian female with wedding ring, slightly older white female/slightly younger black male with wedding ring and stroller and 20-something white female with toddler mulatto, no wedding ring, stroller or accompanying sperm donor.
Steve Sailer wrote --
> Is it reasonable to say that a white woman doubles her chances of a bad outcome (e.g., out of wedlock pregnancy) if she gets involved with a black man instead of a white man?
Define "bad outcome." It's pretty obvious that you don't share e.g.s on this point with, e.g., Katie Roiphe.
At least as far as the status-seeking that earns us credibility with the people who matter (and tenure).
Of course, in the what-I-do category -- husband, two kids, toasty Brooklyn townhouse -- the two of you are pretty much on the same page.
Concerning what-I-say, not so much.
Steve Sailer "Is it reasonable to say that a white woman doubles her chances of a bad outcome (e.g., out of wedlock pregnancy) if she gets involved with a black man instead of a white man?"
No. It's not being attracted to black men that's the problem, the problem is being attracted to cads.
Since black men abandon their mates and children more often than white men, relationships between white women and black men will tend to disproportionately represent white women who are attracted to poor husband material. If these women didn't marry a black man, they would probably marry a white man who would abandon them in a similar manner.
But if a women values men with good character, then she's likely to pick out a good mate regardless of whether he's black or white.
Now inter-racial marriage does create a lot of difficulties and challenges absent in mono-racial marriage, so yes, the likelihood of a woman experiencing a bad outcome does increase independent of these factors. But to argue that marrying a black man in itself doubles the chances is to overlook the fact that the root cause is not the inter-racial marriage, but the character types involved on both sides.
Now you might make the argument that if these women don't marry a black man, they might be forced into marrying a white man with more husband-potential, thus halving the chances of a bad outcome. But I doubt there's any shortage of unmarried white men with similarly low potential, so I think the end result would be close to the same.
So no, I don't think it doubles it.
Some Middle Easterners are essentially the same as southern Europeans...
Yeah, it's kinda scary to see that lily-white ruling class in so many of the Muslim countries.
For instance, Huma Abedin's father's mentor was a Saudi Arabian, named Abdullah Omar Naseef, and that dude could easily pass as an Englishman or a Scot.
Black men evidently must exude a pheremone that short-circuits women's brains. After all, Stanley Ann Dunham, who, iirc, graduated high school at 16, was obviously no dummy, but made an incredibly bad decision with respect to a certain black African exchange student...
I have better girls
"Aaron in Israel said...
If you calculate those odds they might come in handy for blogging, but not for deciding who to marry or get knocked up by. That's because by that time you've got so much a posteriori information that the a priori probabilities are pretty much worthless.
In fact, the a priori probabilities wouldn't even be that useful for public policy, because you're not even considering other factors like socio-economic status.
Also, I think you've implicitly committed Derbyshire's Fallacy here, though you didn't state it explicitly as he did. It's seems implicit in your "statistically speaking, more likely." Derbyshire's fallacy, of course, is to consider relative probabilities (blacks vs. whites) in situations where absolute, not relative, probabilities are relevant. Thus, even beside the question of a priori or a posteriori, the question is not - or rather, not only - how much more likely black men are to do these things than white men, but how likely they are to do these things, period."
Talking about "a priori" and "a posteriori" is twaddle; a hormone-addled girl will see all sorts of "a posteriori" clues to the fact that her honey will, in fact, ditch her. She will ignore them - or, more accurately, she will think that these indicators of unreliability are "hot".
This is why culturally-ingrained prejudices are useful: they use emotions to prevent people from making mistakes that their reason is too feeble to guard against. Our prejudices, unfortunately, direct women to act even more foolishly than they otherwise would.
As for your second objection - I can only suppose that every story I've read indicating that there are, in fact, black people in Israel is in error, or that it is remarkably easy to insulate yourself from them. You really think that the absolute probability of a black man knocking up his girl, then promptly ditching her is...low? Yes, we don't have numbers on it for obvious reasons, but anyone who knows lower-class Americans can see that it's somewhere between the expected outcome, and a near-certainty.
Maybe this doesn't hold generally; maybe our blacks are a unique global phenomenon in their propensity to pump and dump, pump and dump, repeat until too old or too dead. But it certainly holds here - come over spend a few years in a sketchy urban neighborhood if you don't believe me.
Wait, that doesn't sound too appetizing, does it? Then don't go logic-chopping with people who have actually done this; you simply have no clue what you are talking about.
"Would you have been able to stick around?"
I knocked up a much older, more experienced woman at 22. I took financial responsibility (as much as possible) but not day-to-day fathering responsibility. My son is popular successful and smart so his mother (despite all of her flaws) did an excellent job, although he wants very little to do with me now.
So I guess the answer is; no then, yes now.
"but made an incredibly bad decision with respect to a certain black African exchange student..."
Was it an incredibly bad decision? He fathered the POTUS.
Truth: "I knocked up a much older, more experienced woman at 22."
How charming.And people wonder at our present fate, when procreation (the most important thing that most of us will ever do)is reduced to a crude vulgarism.
"Was it an incredibly bad decision? He fathered the POTUS."
Because he "fathered the POTUS," yes.
"And, hey, that Bernie Goldberg sounds like someone who knows how to say no to blacks. That's a skill every republican could stand to learn, you reckon."
Hey, it's a skill every American could stand to learn. And that includes blacks.
When you're eating a half gallon of ice cream every night and you're 16 and active, so what? When you keep it up and don't account for the effects it will have on you for the rest of your life, all you've done is laid the way for your ill health.
All black leaders and a huge % of blacks have done over the last few decades is laid the way to their new kind of captivity--captivity by government. All the while, the people paying their freight are growing angry, and it's justified.
Another approach is to ask people to describe the benefits of race mixing with blacks; these benefits are?
Uh, their kids will receive affirmative action boosts?
And one benefit to white women mating with bulls is that their Minotaur offspring will enjoy dominion over their own labyrinth.
"Was it an incredibly bad decision? He fathered the POTUS."
Asked and answered.
In the affirmative--and no, I don't just mean as in "action".
To truth at 10:41 pm:
Well then sir, rather then name calling, which is immature why don't you tell us exactly what are the benefits of race-mixing with blacks?
David M: "Now inter-racial marriage does create a lot of difficulties and challenges absent in mono-racial marriage, so yes, the likelihood of a woman experiencing a bad outcome does increase independent of these factors. But to argue that marrying a black man in itself doubles the chances is to overlook the fact that the root cause is not the inter-racial marriage, but the character types involved on both sides."
But that's not at all what Steve asked--and you should know--you quoted his question in your reply. In case you missed it, what he actually wrote was, "Is it reasonable to say that a white woman doubles her chances of a bad outcome (e.g., out of wedlock pregnancy) if she gets involved with a black man instead of a white man?"
"Out of wedlock" is the opposite of "marriage".
Truth said,"My son is popular successful and smart so his mother (despite all of her flaws) did an excellent job, although he wants very little to do with me now."
I'm sorry about that, seriously, no snark, no sarcasm.
Despite all my reservations about you, I sense you are a better than average dad.
Anon 7:30 AM wrote --
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I think you've implicitly committed Derbyshire's Fallacy here... Derbyshire's fallacy, of course, is to consider relative probabilities (blacks vs. whites) in situations where absolute, not relative, probabilities are relevant... the question is not - or rather, not only - how much more likely black men are to do these things than white men, but how likely they are to do these things, period."
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Let's stipulate that Derbyshire stated only relative probabilities (I'm not going to check). Can you state why this is an error in reasoning due to misconception or presumption that rises to the level of fallacy?
Evo-psych explanations is that almost all women, almost all the time, want to be in a polygamous relationship with the top players, the top 10% of men, socially and dominance-wise, and money matters little. That this is hard-wired as being a primate, almost all of whom live like this.
And that the nuclear family is artificial, constructed mainly by Europeans and NE Asians, to survive in low-resource environments. The Black nuclear family was "forced" by White pressure in segregation to conform, and incredibly low resources pre-Welfare State. Without it Black people could literally starve. See Louis Armstrong's auto-biography, painfully typed out without any ghostwriter. Or Jelly Roll Morton's recollections on the re-released Library of Congress Records.
As Roissy noted, "five minutes of Alpha beats five years of beta."
These women were optimizing SEX and dominance, and "Alpha kids" at the expense of a middle class life.
And to their minds, they are not giving up much.
Welfare statism means that they won't starve. Or be homeless. Their kids get CONSIDERABLE AA benefits, probably equivalent or GREATER than a middle class beta male could or would provide. Meanwhile they get much better sex and dominance from an Alpha male who does not stick around and morph into a hated beta provider.
Its an optimal for them. You can see this at all levels, look at how women did NOT throw themselves at Mark Zuckerberg before marriage, his Asian wife like Melinda Gates with her husband seems to barely tolerate him. That's the pre-money primate moving the primal urges. Chimps and early humans did not have money, just group social dominance. Its hard-wired.
EVEN Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, has the Lizzie character immediately taken with the cad and disliking the stuffy rich guy Darcy. It takes a whole boatload of social norms and sexual repression for that to reverse. High resource abundant societies allow women to express their inner primate and simply mate with the most socially dominant guy around. Since they don't NEED them to stick around in boring beta providership.
Beta male nuclear families (not enough sexy Alphas to create them) restrict female sexuality and to a degree, male Alpha (no need to restrict beta males -- women don't want them anyway) in a massive "settling" compromise that produces wealth and security at the expense of female satisfaction in male sexiness. Which is a function of personal physical dominance and not much else.
Einstein, Von Braun, Oppenheimer, Teller, those guys produce a massive advantage for a society but it seems it can't reproduce itself since women find them repellent compared to your average aspiring Black rapper/thug, or White tattooed bicycle messenger.
but when the smart people keep the norms a secret
A lot of smart people are working day and night to make Jessica Schairer the norm, at least for the Jessica Schairers of this world. It is they who are not conforming to the official norms. “It is the privileged Americans who are marrying, and marrying helps them stay privileged,” said Andrew Cherlin, a sociologist at Johns Hopkins University. It's the privileged who push multiculturalism on the lower classes and that helps them stay privileged - fixed it for you, Professor.
Two things about this article:
1) It could've been shortened to just two words: white trash. I can't imagine wasting, err using, so many words to relate that a white woman impregnated by a member of the least reliable and economically successful -- by far -- group of men in America would end up raising the kid alone and having money problems. Gee, what a surprise. Add to that the fact that most white women who go with black men are low class to begin with. Wonder how much time was wasted, err spent, on this 'tell me something I don't know' article.
2) When I looked at it, almost 1200 people had bothered to comment. Probably nearly every one absolutely insipid (not in the mood to be charitable today).
OK, three things:
3) Again, as in any random assembly of fotos I see these days, it seemed the majority of the adults -- maybe even the kids -- were either overweight or downright fat. That is really disgusting. But so 'America' these days. Sad.
Mr Sailer, you're way too nice.
"Since black men abandon their mates and children more often than white men, relationships between white women and black men will tend to disproportionately represent white women who are attracted to poor husband material."
This presupposes that outside of minor IQ-related differences that blacks and whites have no essential racial characteristics at all.
From my perspective it seems that all of those things that correlate with IQ don't magically make higher IQ blacks into whites, or lower IQ whites into blacks. That black cads are orders of magnitude worse mate choices than white cads regardless of IQ.
It presupposes that all things being equal, a black man or a white man are of interchangeable quality as mates (or any other facet of life for that matter), which is a hard pill to swallow for anyone who isn't brain dead (or black).
"But if a women values men with good character, then she's likely to...
...retain some semblance of familial loyalty and not be compelled to have children that will look nothing like her, or her relatives; children that are almost certain to reject and be actively hostile to her culture.
No such creature exists that is of 'good character' yet simultaneously traitorous against their own family and kind for the sake of pleasure or hormone-induced 'romance', or whatever the possibly reason could be.
Black men evidently must exude a pheremone that short-circuits women's brains. After all, Stanley Ann Dunham, who, iirc, graduated high school at 16, was obviously no dummy, but made an incredibly bad decision with respect to a certain black African exchange student...
Born into an earlier generation, she'd have shocked her parents by wearing pants. No magical "black pheromone" is necessary to explain her actions.
"I would guess that miscegenating parents tend to feel less commitment to their kids."
I think in this case, it's more of an IQ/time-preference thing. The WASP/Jewish/Asian/Indian upper-middle-class crossbreeders seem to invest the usual huge amount of time into their spawn.
Steve asks if something could be done about alerting the slower-witted gals to this,the Bad Black Dad Syndrome and I say,hell yeah! Get a well heeled type,like that Lions of Narnia dude,to make a TV ad,one that of necessity will gain massive pub. It would go something like this: A group of couples greet each other on a beautiful morning on Pleasant Avenue in Anytown,USA. They are going on a wonderful outing together with their beloved kids.Look! Theres the White male,Asian female couple,so well dressed and happy as they exit their Lexus with their smiling kids. And the white-white couple,parking their shiny car,also happy and laughing with their tow-headed dears. And here comes the white-latina couple,she sooo sexy.They all gather round laughing and talking as their kids play. Its going to be a wonderful day! But wait where is their friend Sue? A couple of the "boys" cast wary glances at their wives. "Dont worry she said she'd be here,"scolds one of the women. "Just as well if she flakes," says one,"the drama gets old." "Thats not fair," retorts a wife as hint of a smile creases her well-scrubbed face,"but then again...". Finally a broken down Chevy lumbers up and out of it emerges,with much difficulty,an enormous fat woman in a giant T- shirt,with some faded stains, and shorts. Her jowls shake as her greeting to the couples is interrupted by one of her mullatto kids screaming at the other as they dash out of the rusty car. "Jamal!! #@#%&*$ you Jamal!! I told you to behave!" The others smile politely... NOTE: Tay-Sachs is a disease the gene for which is carried by one in 30 Ashkenazi jews. Did you know its also carried by one in 50 Irish people???Its also prevalent in the Cajun pop?? Hmm.
Truth re "I knocked up MUCH older woman at 22." Did you by any chance catch Adam Sandlers latest-"Thats My Boy"?
I love how you guys give automatic pass to asian female/ white male couples.
Losers. They are JUST AS BAD as white female/black male couples.
First, if your children aren't girls, the half asian/half white son is screwed the majority of the time.
There are serious mental illness problems in half asian/half whites...I know 3 people personally, 2 of which committed suicide.
Third, do we really need to break up our race and create sub-races even if the sub-race is 'civilized' NO! That's dumb! Creating sub-races weakens the parent race Fools!
So yeah...there's no difference between the White Male/Asian Female couple and the White Female/Black Male couple...they are both weakening the parent race..but there is maybe one difference....the wf/bm couple has more kids which on an evolutionary basis is > then the 1 or 2 child households of the wm/af..even if they aren't as high IQ.
"Well then sir, rather then name calling, which is immature why don't you tell us exactly what are the benefits of race-mixing with blacks?"
Sex, motherhood, affection, companionship...They are, mysteriously, quite similar to the benefits of mixing with one's "own."
"Despite all my reservations about you, I sense you are a better than average dad."
If that's the case, the bar is pretty darn low. The truth is; I donated money, apparently good genes, an occasional letter, phone call, and birthday gift, and a week or so during the summer and somehow my son figured it out.
Is it more important for European females to know about fathering trends or about IQ trends?
She doesn't need statistics or "trends" to judge a potential father's intelligence. She can observe his intellect in action.
But she can't see how he reacts to the birth of a baby until after the child is born, when it's too late. Thus, obviously, the general tendency of Black fathers to abandon their children without providing resources for them is a much more valuable datum.
Here is a recent relevant paper. Even if you don't believe their theory, they collect some troubling facts.
The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents
Roland G. Fryer, Jr
Lisa Kahn
Steven D. Levitt
Jörg L. Spenkuch
Abstract
Over the past 40 years the fraction of mixed race black-white births has increased nearly nine-fold. There is little empirical evidence on how these children fare relative to their single-race counterparts. This paper describes basic facts about the plight of mixed race individuals during their adolescence and early adulthood. As one might expect, on a host of background and achievement characteristics, mixed race adolescents fall in between whites and blacks. When it comes to engaging in risky/anti-social adolescent behavior, however, mixed race adolescents are stark outliers compared to both blacks and whites. We argue that these behavioral patterns are most consistent with the "marginal man" hypothesis, which we formalize as a two-sector Roy model. Mixed race adolescents -- not having a natural peer group -- need to engage in more risky behaviors to be accepted. All other models we considered can explain neither why mixed race adolescents are outliers on risky behaviors nor why these behaviors are not strongly influenced by the racial composition at their school.
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I think you've implicitly committed Derbyshire's Fallacy here... Derbyshire's fallacy, of course, is to consider relative probabilities (blacks vs. whites) in situations where absolute, not relative, probabilities are relevant... the question is not - or rather, not only - how much more likely black men are to do these things than white men, but how likely they are to do these things, period."
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Let's stipulate that Derbyshire stated only relative probabilities (I'm not going to check). Can you state why this is an error in reasoning due to misconception or presumption that rises to the level of fallacy?
Relative frequencies would be important in the case where it was a given that the girl would have to be impregenated and drop out of college, and the only question was whether she should choose a white or black impregnator. But given that she has a third option of not being impregnated by anybody, which is far superior to either of the other two options, the comparison of those two options is irrelevant.
In other words, if a girl is trying to decide whether to go all the way with her black date, the question is not whether he is more or less reliable than the average white date, the question is whether he is more or less reliable than a potential co-parent would need to be to make the risk of pregnancy bearable. Now of course if there are a lot of super-reliable white dates around, part of the cost of pregnancy is foreclosing the option of those dates in the future. So if the average reliability of both black and white dates were high enough in the absolute sense, then it might make sense to factor relative risks in. But I really don't think either race's average reliability clears the bar; the lady in question got pregnant and dropped out first year of college. The average white kid isn't going to be able to keep that from changing her life for the worse either.
"I would guess that miscegenating parents tend to feel less commitment to their kids."
I think in this case, it's more of an IQ/time-preference thing. The WASP/Jewish/Asian/Indian upper-middle-class crossbreeders seem to invest the usual huge amount of time into their spawn.
In BM-WF couplings, it has nothing to do with IQ or time preference. It has much to do with the fact that the White mother usually learns the hard way that she will get no resources from the father and that she has also ruined her chances of getting any resources from any White man. It also has a lot to do with the fact that the child is no more related to the mother than is a random White stranger.
"If that's the case, the bar [for being a good dad] is pretty darn low. The truth is; I donated money, apparently good genes, an occasional letter, phone call, and birthday gift, and a week or so during the summer and somehow my son figured it out."
I guess I did set the bar kind of low. I was judging by my own dad.
In fact, the a priori probabilities wouldn't even be that useful for public policy, because you're not even considering other factors like socio-economic status.
Socio-economic status? Are you joking? Socio-economic status and the propensity for abandoning children are caused by the same things. They're not independent variables!
all three of the black immigrant employees at my companies have 1, 2 and 3 baby mamas respectively, [I recently discovered by being the only reader on the job when one got a credit card garnishment but thought " some bitch" was suing him,]that none pay child support all have made arrangements to have welfare take care of their families while they hunt the next victims, many of us white guys have not lived up to the feminist ideal and have sadly had our children taken from us by our exes and pay about $1200 month for the injury [good 100k union jobs] these blacks i later found out have another advantage they put half a dozen or more dependents on their tax returns; im assured its such common practice in the hood that any tax preparer will hook me up with the requisite social security numbers if i lack enough indolent relatives or friends. no doubt in a dozen years i will be also supporting their grand kids and then great grand-kids all the way through penitentiary
Their parents could still fill this role, even though larger society is steering them down the wrong path. The fact is lower class white parents are steadily becoming more black themselves and neglecting basic aspects of parenting like this.
""Yes, that's one among a long list of negatives. Another approach is to ask people to describe the benefits of race-mixing with blacks; these benefits are_______?"
Isn't it totally obvious?
Giving dweebs like you hypertension so that you don't live to collect medicare.
You have to admit it's a huge public benefit."
- If that's the goal it's failing miserably. Blacks are the ones dying young, not whites.
I think the solution to being annoyed is to recognize, how much longer can this nonsense go on? Not much more, its obvious that this liberal fantasy is unsustainable long term and going over the cliff. Good luck to the homies when the pendulum swings the other way.
Truth,
So it sounds like you recognize that having illegitimate kids does no one any good (especially the kid). The $64,000 is, why do you go around saying things that support?
"...none pay child support all have made arrangements to have welfare take care of their families while they hunt the next victims..."
The black guys I knew in my old neighborhood didn't pay child support. They didn't make arrangements to have welfare take care of their families--the baby mamas did that.
I was stunned to learn it was a matter of pride to them that they didn't contribute any money or material resources to their families and that they were free to stop by any of the households for sex and a meal whenever they chose. They usually got their women to give them money, too. They would talk about this quite openly and with considerable pride. To them, being a man meant siring children and getting others to support them, their offspring and their baby mamas.
Anonymous asked me, why are absolute and not relative probabilities "the" question? Actually, I qualified that: I said relative probabilities may be relevant, too. If your job is to target public service announcements to specific "communities," then yeah, the ratio of the probabilities is what to look at. Presumably you've already decided the risks themselves are high enough to justify that action. But if you want to know whether your daughter should go out with some black guy, you want to know (in terms of this blog post) the risk it'll end up badly, even more than you want to know how much more likely that would be than if she went out with some white guy. The answer to the first question might make the second question academic.
For a hypothetical example, suppose she's going out with some upper-middle-class black guy, and that upper-middle-class black guys are twice as likely to beat their wives as upper-middle-class white guys. So what? If those chances were, say, 1% and 2%, then who cares about the difference? Similarly if both probabilities were really high, near 100%, but the one for blacks were higher. The Derbyshire Fallacy* is to ignore the actual risks and to look only at the 2:1 ratio.
In your example, if you were thinking of taking a shortcut through a black neighborhood, you wouldn't primarily care how much safer the nearby white neighborhood is. You'd care how dangerous that black neighborhood is, in absolute terms: the probability that you'll get attacked. If that probability were low, then maybe you'd walk through there; if it were high, then you'd ask yourself how dangerous the nearby white neighborhood is, again in absolute terms.
*The Derbyshire Fallacy was identified by William Saletan and Noah Millman.
Dear Aaron:
I understand your logic, but do keep in mind that the both the relative and absolute chances of a negative outcome (e.g., abandonment of her and her children without financial support) from a white working class woman falling in love with a man are sizable under any conditions and even more sizable with a black man. It's not a 1% chance of something going wrong with a white guy v. a 2% chance with a black guy, it might be more like 30% with a white man and 60% with a black man. I won't swear to those numbers, but that's roughly what we are talking about.
@ Kylie: Okay, strike marriage and replace with relationship, it is all still the same logic. And of course an out of wedlock birth is only one example of the bad outcomes he was referring to.
@ K(yle): I think you're right that black cads are on average worse than white cads, because lower class black culture encourages this behavior even more than lower class white culture does. So you're also right that this further increases the odds of a bad outcome. I am not convinced though that there is anything genetically "black" about this poor behavior - just look at how well lower class white and black cultures mirror each other in Britain. It may be that genetics matters mostly to the extent that it determines the proportion of persons who end up in the lower class.
Even granting that odds are worse with a black cad than with a white cad, I still think Steve is overstating the negative influence. It may be true that 30% of white-white relationships end up with a bad outcome, and 60% of white-black relationships end up with a bad outcome. But let's say you took that population of women involved with black men, and somehow restricted them to relationships with white men. You would probably see that their rate of bad outcomes still ends up much higher than the 30% average, because they will still manage to pick out poor mates, and they will still bring all their own personal failings to the relationship.
"It's not a 1% chance of something going wrong with a white guy v. a 2% chance with a black guy, it might be more like 30% with a white man and 60% with a black man. I won't swear to those numbers, but that's roughly what we are talking about."
- I'd say its more like 10% with a white guy and 60% with a black guy....
"Truth said...
...........although he wants very little to do with me now."
Gee. I wonder why. A great deal of self-delusion seeps out of "Truth"'s posts.
"The Derbyshire Fallacy* is to ignore the actual risks and to look only at the 2:1 ratio."
and the Derbyshire failing is to not have an academia department that can put out statistics like the "1 in 4 college women have been raped or attempted rape", indoctrinate its pupils, and quash the fallacy-makers under a deluge of propaganda.
" A great deal of self-delusion seeps out of "Truth"'s posts."
Dude, invest in a dictionary.
Upthread, Aaron in Israel (7/16/12 9:36 PM) brought up the "Derbyshire Fallacy."
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Derbyshire's fallacy, of course, is to consider relative probabilities (blacks vs. whites) in situations where absolute, not relative, probabilities are relevant...
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Without checking, I assumed that Derbyshire had stated only relative probabilities in his article The Talk: Nonblack Version -- he didn't, it turns out -- and asked for an explanation of this "fallacy" (7/17/12 10:35 AM).
Aaron in Israel has now offered an explanation (7/17/12 9:44 PM), and it is weak tea. Aaron relies on the premise that Derbyshire was comparing trivially small probabilities with each other, e.g. "2% is twice as large as 1%!"
This is a silly criticsm. The most clear-cut reason is that Derbyshire made qualitative arguments, proffering neither relative nor absolute probabilities (check the link). Second, Derbyshire's critics assume that the various probabilities at issue lack real-world impacts. That this need not be so was demonstrated over a dozen years ago by La Griffe du Lion, here.
"Truth said...
""A great deal of self-delusion seeps out of "Truth"'s posts."""
Dude, invest in a dictionary."
I have no idea what you mean. You seem to style yourself a great prose stylist.
You aren't.
"Delusion" isn't that difficult of a word, grasshopper.
"Truth said...
"Delusion" isn't that difficult of a word, grasshopper."
Apparently, it is for you, idiot. I used it correctly. I certainly don't need correction from morons like you.
Grasshopper, your wife must have a TON of fun married to you.
"Truth said...
Grasshopper, your wife must have a TON of fun married to you."
And your son is fortunate to be a bastard. The less contact with you, the better for him.
Oh calm down now, Grasshopper, things aren't that bad; cajole your wife into a tummy rub and a glass of warm milk, and have her tell you how smart and handsome you are.
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