tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post7521137458743463448..comments2024-03-28T16:22:14.888-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: IQ & Harvard Law SchoolUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46019086142988224092010-05-13T18:55:07.834-07:002010-05-13T18:55:07.834-07:00"Have you seen her Princeton senior thesis?
...<i>"Have you seen her Princeton senior thesis?<br /><br />This chick is Emma Goldman [or Rosa Luxemburg] in drag.</i><br /><br />Dude, take a look at the Socialist Party platform from the early 20th century, back when Eugene Debbs ran on it. A lot of the stuff these "radicals" were agitating for are things we take for granted today (minimum wage, weekends off, 8 hour days, etc.)Frednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83849361416907700562010-05-13T13:21:44.675-07:002010-05-13T13:21:44.675-07:00This is to follow-up on the remarks of not-too-suc...This is to follow-up on the remarks of not-too-successful Ivy-PhD Anon as to the motivations of lefty-elites on race. While fear of endangering earned privileges and status is doubtless part of it, I think there's something else: simple refusal to admit an error. When Jim Crow and its manifestations were dismantled, the 60-something folks we meet in the academy, publishing, etc. had a basic question before them. Should blacks be required to meet white standards, or should they be exempted? I'm too young to have been around, but I assume there was an argument about this somewhere around 1970. The latter position obviously prevailed, and part of that exemption process was to set up a self-esteem regime in which black people were to be considered "cool." After 40 years of this meme, of course blacks would end up emotionally disabled for the hard work of life. This site, which is otherwise excellent, consistently gives short shrift to this alternative explanation.not a hackernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-9485397322670026762010-05-13T07:38:49.640-07:002010-05-13T07:38:49.640-07:00As Satoshi Kanazawa wrote recently, it's the p...<i>As Satoshi Kanazawa wrote recently, it's the peacock's tail. It's sexual display. The more convoluted the better. It shows how smart you are.</i><br /><br />To whom? People who agree with you? That's not sexual display. That's simple conformism.<br /><br />The rejection of prevailing opinion, in fact, can be more fairly described as sexual display. Those who can see through the smokescreen are indeed special, but of course few people are able to perceive this fact. There are many parallel currents of sexual selection in our society, as different men and women look for different traits as indicators of fitness.ben tillmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18074766927776343612010-05-13T06:15:28.887-07:002010-05-13T06:15:28.887-07:00Also, to placate Barack Obama's Jewish backers...<i>Also, to placate Barack Obama's Jewish backers.</i> <br /><br />Have you seen <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/05/elena_kagan_radical.asp" rel="nofollow">her Princeton senior thesis</a>?<br /><br />This chick is Emma Goldman [or Rosa Luxemburg] in drag.<br /><br />She is very, very bad news.<br /><br />PS: <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YjQyMjYwMDk5NzY3NzIwZmFkZDA1NGI3Y2I1Y2M3NGE" rel="nofollow">HEY JOHN DERBYSHIRE</a> - SHE'S ON THE GOLDMAN-SACHS PAYROLL - FANCY THAT, MATE!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-80923186659867095832010-05-13T05:28:38.673-07:002010-05-13T05:28:38.673-07:00"...the evidence is obvious that the New Test..."...the evidence is obvious that the New Testament was made up and that the Jesus described in there never even existed."<br /><br />Dude, I didn't realize you were a crackpot. Say it ain't so!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13502388394724339852010-05-12T22:41:52.506-07:002010-05-12T22:41:52.506-07:00By the way, Steve, do you happen to have the list ...By the way, Steve, do you happen to have the list of the 32 people Kagan is said to have hired while dean at HLS? The racial breakdown is 31 whites and 1 Asian, but it would be interesting to know the, uh, ethnic breakdown.Captain Jack Aubreynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48088507754734070872010-05-12T22:39:44.764-07:002010-05-12T22:39:44.764-07:00In a similar vein, David Horowitz deconstructs aca...In a similar vein, David Horowitz deconstructs academic impostor Cornel West, the Ivy Leagues, and liberal radicalism at <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/433811/hurricane-west-cornel-west-and-american-radicalism/david-horowitz?page=1" rel="nofollow"> National Review Online. </a> in his essay <b>'Hurricane West: Cornel West and American Radicalism'.</b> I enjoyed reading a confrontation between West and Summers where Harvard President Larry Summers castigates West to uphold the college's academic standards.<br /><br /><i>It was a quixotic attempt to uphold an academic standard that had long ago been shredded when West was elevated to an elite faculty such as Harvard’s (let alone to University Professor). But Cornel West was used to riding the waves of racial grievance to unearned successes. For 30 years the race card had trumped all standards, to West’s benefit, and he was not about to be intimidated, not even by a powerful university president and former secretary of the Treasury</i>Toadalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02710674512538267656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76716275840934947352010-05-12T22:26:34.771-07:002010-05-12T22:26:34.771-07:00Kagan is a lawyer with little experience in a cour...Kagan is a lawyer with little experience in a courtroom.<br /><br />She is a would-be justice with no experience as a judge.<br /><br />She is an "academic" with no record of serious scholarship.<br /><br />She is mostly a political hack with a history of filling political appointments granted her by friends and cronies, including her gig as HLS Dean (appointed by Clinton Admin pal and fellow Jew Larry Summers).<br /><br />Her political hackery/cronyism includes her friendship with Barack Obama while at U of Chicago Law.<br /><br />She makes Harriet Miers look overqualified by comparison.<br /><br />If confirmed she would increase the number of Jews on the Court to 3 while there would be 6 Catholics. There would be no Protestants in a country where over 50% of the population is Protestant. Nor would there be any Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, or Mormons. (I assume there are unacknowledged atheists on the Court.)<br /><br />If confirmed she would make 6 justices who were educated at Harvard Law, the other 3 being educated at Yale.<br /><br />If confirmed she would be one of 4 justices raised in New York City, with one more (Alito) raised next door in New Jersey.<br /><br />Geographically the Court would look like this:<br /><br />New York/New Jersey (5): Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan, Scalia, Alito<br /><br />California (2): Breyer, Kennedy<br /><br />Indiana: Roberts<br /><br />Georgia: Thomas<br /><br />Seven of our justices would come from only 3 states. Given the Court's inherently political nature, why should we stomach a Court politically so dominated by people from the power centers of New York and California, with the rest of the country and its experiences, ways and mores being almost wholly unrepresented?<br /><br />She does not deserve to be appointed for reasons of merit, and she emphatically does not deserve to be appointed for reasons of diversity.<br /><br />What reason, then, is there to appoint her? Cronyism, I suppose, combined with a safe liberal vote for 30 or more years. Also, to placate Barack Obama's Jewish backers.Captain Jack Aubreynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26026799169160572072010-05-12T22:05:50.118-07:002010-05-12T22:05:50.118-07:00Is she really Jewish? Her father's first name ...<b>Is she really Jewish? Her father's first name is Newton. I've never heard of a Jew named Newton.</b><br /><br />Notta clue, but interesting that no one's mentioned that Newton Minow, former chair of the FCC(?), was the inspiration for the name of the SS Minnow of Gillagan's Island fame. Sherwood Schwartz claimed he named the boat after Minow because Minow had compalined about the lack of quality television programming.<br /><br /><b>Their answer: Because merit and IQ are relevant in our world. But any idiot can become a firefighter or cop.</b><br /><br />Indeed.<br /><br />One more reason most firefighters and cops don't trust people like Martha Minow (and if it weren't for their status as giv't employees, ALL of them would).<br /><br /><b>No liberal disbelieves in intelligence; in fact what they agitate for is precisely an absolute meritocracy predicated entirely on attributes like intelligence.</b> <br /><br />Not entirely. In fact I think that much of the admissions process at the Ivies and other elite institutions is distorted for the purpose of reducing the importance of intelligence in order to keep out intelligent conservatives who, by temperament, aren't inspired to perform the same kinds of extracurricular activities as liberals. Move to an admit process based on raw IQ and the student population would still skew liberal/Asian/Jewish, but not to the same degree, and there would be almost no blacks or Hispanics at all.<br /><br /><b>This is like asking how certain Conservatives can believe that Jesus is the Son of God, even though the evidence is obvious that the New Testament was made up and that the Jesus described in there never even existed.</b><br /><br />Nothing quite that obvious. The only "obvious" part is that the gospels were written several decades after Christ's alleged death and resurrection, and that the authors of Matthew and Luke used the Gospel of Mark as a template for their own Gospels (90% of Mark appears in Matthew and Luke, and in the same order as it appears in Mark). Most of what's claimed in them, however, appears to jive with what we know of the time period in question.Captain Jack Aubreynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16745028022078321952010-05-12T20:10:42.753-07:002010-05-12T20:10:42.753-07:00the evidence is obvious that the New Testament was...<i>the evidence is obvious that the New Testament was made up and that the Jesus described in there never even existed</i> <br /><br />What evidence?<br /><br />Seriously - all the archaeological findings [consistently, and even increasingly, in the modern era] continue to confirm [over and over and over again] the various biblical accounts [Old Testament & New Testament].Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18051116937710380162010-05-12T19:31:35.798-07:002010-05-12T19:31:35.798-07:00But you do seem to make the mistake that very brig...<b><i>But you do seem to make the mistake that very bright people on the right make, that of assuming that those on the left arrived at their political views through a thought process. I maintain that leftists tend to be narcissistic at the very least and in many cases, are full-blown narcissists. They therefore have chose their belief system because they see it as an impregnable way to maintain their superiority by maintaining the moral high ground. </i></b><br><br /><br />As Satoshi Kanazawa wrote recently, it's the peacock's tail. It's sexual display. The more convoluted the better. It shows how smart you are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33422977728769122732010-05-12T17:44:20.071-07:002010-05-12T17:44:20.071-07:00Do you ever get the impression that there is a cer...<i>Do you ever get the impression that there is a certain conflict between what elites, such as Harvard Law School deans, say about IQ and what they really believe deep down....</i><br /><br />Let's look, again, at what Martha Minow said about IQ: IQ is the sole determinant of a person's worth. Do you really think she's hiding an even darker opinion?ben tillmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40354192716984283152010-05-12T17:29:35.017-07:002010-05-12T17:29:35.017-07:00On the other hand, I think white elites really wan...<i>On the other hand, I think white elites really want to believe that IQ is not innate. They want to believe they made it on hard work and inner fortitude. Winning the genetic lottery doesn't have the same appeal.</i><br /><br />Why would anyone want to believe that? "Hard workers" are not an exclusive group. Anyone can qualify. But not just anyone can have a high IQ -- that status is truly exclusive.ben tillmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69987682417375224972010-05-12T15:58:49.193-07:002010-05-12T15:58:49.193-07:00Thanks, Rodney. Here I thought that blog-commentin...Thanks, Rodney. Here I thought that blog-commenting was just screaming into the void. A modern version of Tibettan prayer flags.robnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21968229983071390272010-05-12T13:56:45.424-07:002010-05-12T13:56:45.424-07:00"free speech on campus is very broad"
It..."free speech on campus is very broad"<br />It should have a very narrow core.<br />That core is the personal confrontation of the raw facts of contemporary science relevant to the issue. From that confrontation, one can impose varied values. There is no evidence of any such "two step" solution at work in this matter. It appears, rather, to be willful confusion molded into some shallow appearance of moral responsibility.<br />High IQ Disneyland.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-3727644942808225892010-05-12T13:41:47.447-07:002010-05-12T13:41:47.447-07:00This is like asking how certain Conservatives can ...This is like asking how certain Conservatives can believe that Jesus is the Son of God, even though the evidence is obvious that the New Testament was made up and that the Jesus described in there never even existed.Half Sigmahttp://www.halfsigma.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-44128208656498130042010-05-12T13:01:59.814-07:002010-05-12T13:01:59.814-07:00"I think the reason why Jews like Martha Mino...<i>"I think the reason why Jews like Martha Minow..."</i><br /><br />Is she really Jewish? Her father's first name is Newton. I've never heard of a Jew named Newton.Curiousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90124642248574210192010-05-12T13:01:59.815-07:002010-05-12T13:01:59.815-07:00Justin Raimondo at Antiwar.com has a perceptive cr...Justin Raimondo at Antiwar.com has a perceptive critique of Kagan (emphasizing her friendly attitude towards the Bush/Obama War on Terror and the curtailment of civil liberties justified in its name).Dutch Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02687679491743923216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51434274893909665262010-05-12T12:01:32.166-07:002010-05-12T12:01:32.166-07:00@ Ray Sawhill...I'm with you. Especially with...@ Ray Sawhill...I'm with you. Especially with the tough questions.jswansonhttp://swantron.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-19757771931408229342010-05-12T11:47:30.635-07:002010-05-12T11:47:30.635-07:00In her statement to the Harvard Law School communi...In her statement to the Harvard Law School community, Dean Minow ought to have proclaimed that free speech on campus is very broad, that it is rooted in the freedom and equality of all human beings, and that its purpose is to protect the robust examination of ideas, including controversial ones, in order that the truth may emerge. She ought to have reminded students and faculty who cherish free inquiry that it is their responsibility to confront views that they deplore with better evidence and stronger arguments.<br /><br />If Dean Minow’s principle that hurtful opinions must go unspoken and unexamined were taken seriously and applied impartially, then law schools and universities would be obliged to close down the dispassionate investigation of an enormous range of important public issues, from the morality, law, and politics of abortion, affirmative action, and same-sex marriage to the causes of the financial crisis; from the efficiency and justice of health care reform to the rules governing the detention, interrogation, and prosecution of enemy combatants; from Middle East politics to immigration.<br /><br />And that’s no way to run a law school or a university.<br /><br />Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.Mr Apostrophehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05569537698107890737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-23995016723580348942010-05-12T11:29:26.673-07:002010-05-12T11:29:26.673-07:00Sotomayor & Kagan have undergradute degrees fr...<i>Sotomayor & Kagan have undergradute degrees from<br />the same Princeton department of history.</i> <br /><br /><i>The world of "diversity" is often a very, very tiny circle ...</i> <br /><br /><br /><br />If Kagan is confirmed the Democrats wll have three women on the Supreme Court. One from Manhattan, one from Brooklyn, and one from the Bronx. It's a New York state of mind ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-32140623122313564462010-05-12T11:16:49.223-07:002010-05-12T11:16:49.223-07:00More iSteve weirdness - a Jew who converted to Mor...More iSteve weirdness - <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/123503/" rel="nofollow">a Jew who converted to Mormonism</a> [and who is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Dukakis#Life_and_career" rel="nofollow">kinda/sorta related to Kitty Dukakis</a>] wants to <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NmNlYzg5NGZkNDAwOWUxMDljOTFjOTZiNzAxMjY0MTQ" rel="nofollow">challenge Orrin Hatch</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7125212134198355772010-05-12T11:10:09.003-07:002010-05-12T11:10:09.003-07:00Another thing is it means they are out of touch. ...Another thing is it means they are out of touch. They think everyone is smart. They think everyone is diligent. They also do not know that you can live a good life in low income if you have some wisdom.JWOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00004178958481335795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84489699613945212012010-05-12T11:01:42.183-07:002010-05-12T11:01:42.183-07:00OT:
Check out this statistically illiterate (and/...OT:<br /><br />Check out this statistically illiterate (and/or deliberately misleading) madness from the NYT<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/nyregion/13frisk.html?hp<br /><br />It's remarkably similar to pieces Steve criticized about imaginary minority lending "disparities". Blacks and Hispanics are stopped more often (in raw numbers) than whites, but once they are stopped they are about equally likely to be arrested - similar to minorities receiving fewer mortgages, but defaulting at the same rate. The article, of course, draws the absolutely counterfactual conclusion that the similar arrest rate indicates that thousands of blacks and hispanics are being stopped for no reason.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-32940557660248464252010-05-12T10:23:03.336-07:002010-05-12T10:23:03.336-07:00Kagan has said she's OK with hate speech laws....Kagan has said she's OK with hate speech laws. Wonder if this is going too far for her:<br /><br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255264/Pupils-aged-hate-register-Teachers-log-playground-taunts-Government-database.htmllnoreply@blogger.com