For our Social Justice Warriors, race differences in intelligence absolutely cannot be acknowledged to be genetic. If that happens, they sense, then racial inequality in outcomes will have to be accepted as fair and their entire religion of cultural determinism, the thing that gives SJWs their power, will be discredited. This sends them into paroxysms of fury. Which is why a young Italian researcher based in Israel simply cannot be allowed to publish his compelling proof that genetics do indeed determine race IQ differences.
Background: The SJW response to evidence of race differences in intelligence follows a predictable pattern:
But SJWs with half a brain have to back down when you explain that “intelligence” predicts important life outcomes and IQ test scores positively correlate with objective measures such as reaction times. And that “race” can be reduced to genetic clusters and that individual small race differences push in the same direction leading to crucial variation in genetic illnesses and even in response to drugs. [Richard Lynn, Race Differences in Intelligence, 2006, Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending, The 10,000 Year Explosion, 2009]
But if SJWs concede this territory, they then assert that
But blacks do best on the most culturally biased parts of the test (which are the worst measures of intelligence) (see Lynn, above). Further, studies finding “stereotype threat” among blacks have been refuted—sometimes people actually score better when they are specifically told they will do badly by virtue of their identity. But most of these refutations of the theory don’t get published. [An examination of stereotype threat effects on girls’ mathematics performance. Developmental Psychology, Ganley et al. (2013).]
So SJWs must concede this territory too. But their next argument:
The picture above is from a story about the University of New Hampshire.Photos of American girls wearing sombreros and drinking Corona led to "racist" incidents--i. e. fake hate crimes. [Task Force Formed After Racist Incidents Releases Findings, AP, April 22, 2018]
Cinco de Mayo represents cultural imperialism by Mexican immigrants--but if whites participate, it's cultural appropriation.
Here's something I wrote in 2005:
...to the citizens of the Estados Unidos de Mexico who are still in Mexico. And also to those of their compadres who are legal residents of the United States. As for the rest of you, i.e. the large Mexican illegal population, wouldnt this be a good time to return home to celebrate your national holiday? They miss you. Most Americans wouldn't.
This is from 2015, when Jeb Bush, who has a Mexican wife, and Mexican-American kids kept forgetting that he was trying to run for president of the the United States:
Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, available exclusively on VDARE.com
I'm having a fire sale on education stories this week. Also a parallel fire sale on quotes from my 2009 book We Are Doomed, because the education chapter of that book was the most fun to write and it's pertinent to this week's stories. Here's a sort of keynote quote from that chapter:
The whole topic of education is a glorious feast for pessimists of all kinds.
Education story #1: PS , an elementary school, kindergarten through fifth grade, on West 70th Street in Manhattan. That's a tony neighborhood. A two-bedroom apartment on West 70th will currently cost you around two million dollars.
I wrote about PS 199 in the education chapter of We Are Doomed. A kerfuffle had broken broke out in November 2008, when an apartment up there only cost one million dollars:
New York City's education department wanted to make some adjustments to school district boundaries in Manhattan. You see, a lot of these people bought those million-dollar condos so that their kids could attend PS 199 on West 70th street. It's a really good elementary school with great test results. If the proposed rezoning were to go through, though, their kids would have had to attend PS 191 at West 61st and Amsterdam Avenue. That's a lousy school with dismal test results.
Naturally these liberal, progressive, Obama-voting parents were furious. But what exactly was it about P.S. 191 that made it compare so poorly with P.S. 199 in these parents' eyes? Why did they think it's a bad school? Why didn't they want their kids to go there? What, actually, is the definition of the term "bad school"? What makes a bad school bad?
Not to keep you in suspense, gentle reader, but I looked up the student stats for the two schools on the GreatSchools.net website at the time. For PS 199, the good school those parents shelled out a million bucks for: Ice People [i.e. white and Asian students] 80 percent, Sun People [blacks and Hispanics] 19 percent. For the school our progressive post-racial liberal citizens angrily did not want their kids to go to: Ice People 12 percent, Sun People 88 percent.
Forward ten years to this last week. New York City has a new Schools Chancellor, Richard Carranza, appointed last month by the city's communist Mayor Bill de Blasio. Carranza is of Mexican parentage. He started his education career as a bilingual teacher in Tucson. And he is, of course, fiercely anti-white.
So the city Department of Education has cooked up a scheme to diversify city middle schools by reserving places in the best ones—25 percent of places—for kids with the lowest test scores in state exams. That means of course that a corresponding number of kids who scored high on the exams will be placed in crappy middle schools.
Above, Jacob Goodwin's mother visits him jail. Her shirt says "Jacob Goodwin Is A Political Prisoner"
Tale of two cities: Charlottesville VA and Burns, TN—home of the heroic Montgomery Bell State Park Conference Center, defender of American liberties. Guess which side the Main Stream Media is on?
Jacob Scott Goodwin, 22, was just convicted of the “malicious wounding” of DeAndre Harris at the Democrat-mugged Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last August. The jury recommended the astonishing sentence of 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine—a verdict greeted with ecstatic ululations by the Main Stream Media. [White man convicted of beating black man at Charlottesville white nationalist rally, by Camila Domonoske, NPR, May 2, 2018]
DeAndre Harris, you may recall, was caught on video wielding a flashlight against a demonstrator. It was this action, following an attempt by one of Harris’ allies to seize an elderly demonstrator’s Confederate Battle Flag, that video proves sparked the entire brawl. Nonetheless, as in the case of demonstrators arrested during the Inauguration Day riots, judicial sabotage meant that Harris walked free.
In other words, there were absolutely no consequences for Harris’s violence—whereas Scott’s life has been essentially ended. This despite that fact that, according to an independent report from the city, local officials actively conspired to deliberately allow violence to create an excuse to shut down the Unite The Right rally.
There are still other cases to be decided (including that of James Fields, driver of the car that allegedly killed Heather Heyer), but the trend is already a grave threat to American liberties: Unite The Right attendees are being savagely treated by the judicial system, while Antifa vigilantes are being given leniency.
