Lewis2
2mo ago
This creates and purports to legitimize a blue-tribe consensus that there is a 28th Amendment and that it is the ERA
It helps to legitimize it, but it doesn’t create it. Just last month, 120 Democrats in the House and 46 in the Senate signed letters asking Biden to take this step, since, in their view, the amendment was already validly approved. Other blue tribe groups like the National Council of Negro Women and the New York City Bar Association also published similar letters in December. This move may have blindsided Republicans (myself included), but the Democrats were clearly preparing for it.
In the U.S., I would think that HBD has much more to do with civil rights precedent, disparate impact arguments, and accusations of racism than with immigration. Blacks make up a disproportionately large percentage of the prison population, do worse in school, and have worse job prospects than whites and Asians. Is that due to overt racial discrimination or hidden structural racism? If all races have the same IQ, that doesn’t seem like a bad explanation, but if blacks have a lower average IQ, then you can take racism out of the equation. Likewise, Jews are overrepresented in elite universities and positions of power. Is that the result of an insidious Semitic plot? Possibly, or it could just be that they have a higher average IQ than Gentiles.
Lewis2
2mo ago
In theory, one could test this in Germany, assuming that there weren’t large population shifts over the past 200 years (probably not a good bet), since some practiced primogeniture while others practiced partible inheritance. I believe some areas even practiced the opposite of primogeniture, where the youngest son received the bulk of the inheritance, though I’d need to do some rereading to make sure I’m not misremembering something before claiming that for certain.
Lewis2
2mo ago
Isn’t it possible that different populations vary in creativity levels independently of IQ? If so, it could be that East Asians are just genetically less likely to be inventors and entrepreneurs, even as they are genetically more likely to have greater raw computational power.
Of course, their form of government, system of education, and various environmental pressures may also explain the difference. I think some IQ enthusiasts tend to give too much credit to IQ and not enough to other explanatory factors.
Lewis2
2mo ago
Something that hadn’t occurred to me until reading this comment…
As I understand it, Ashkenazi Jews were a primarily urban population for the past 1,500+ years. Given that cities tend to be population shredders, does anyone have any idea how that may have impacted the Ashkenazim? Did they nevertheless have large families like the Haredim today, or did their birth rate remain pretty much at replacement after the fall of the Western Roman Empire? Or does that data just not exist? (A quick search failed to pull up anything, but I figure others here may have access to better sources than Google).
Lewis2
2mo ago
The other way around. If it weren’t for the beatings, the average Russian would reach his natural IQ of 130.
Lewis2
2mo ago
my grandpa believed that this was because the Cherokee's eager adoption of civilization caused their skin to lighten
Was he a Mormon, by any chance? Back when they considered dark sin to be a curse from God, the LDS church officially taught that Native Americans’ skin would lighten if they became Mormon. I haven’t heard of any similar beliefs outside of that group.
Lewis2
2mo ago
I, for one, hope you find the time to do a write-up and post or link it here.
Lewis2
3mo ago
I think you misread whodatmiami’s comment. He said 50% left within a year, not that 50% left within six months and 100% within a year.
Lewis2
3mo ago
But you don't go around telling people "don't fuck with me or you'll find out" before it looks like a fight, do you?
I’ve seen multiple lower-class, self-proclaimed trailer-trash people do exactly that. But that’s also precisely the same sort of person that would make a big scene about greeting his daughter’s date with a shotgun draped across his knee.
Lewis2
3mo ago
That’s seriously a joke? What a bizarre, pornographic thing to think, let alone say.
Actually, in light of the discussion below, I have a different question to ask you: if you had a daughter, would you ever want her to have sex with anyone? It seems to me that a parent with a healthy relationship with his or her daughter would absolutely want her to have sex with her husband and then to bear children as the fruit of that union. Your recent comments, on the other hand, seem to imply that you believe anything other than perpetual virginity is a shameful thing in a daughter.
Lewis2
3mo ago
I can’t offer any definitive proof that @coffee_enjoyer’s claim is correct, but as someone who spends a great deal of time dealing with 19th century American primary sources and who has read many autobiographies of men and women who grew up in that time, I’d say the lack of sports idols rings very true to me.
Newspapers were ubiquitous back then, serving not only as disseminators of news but also fulfilling the role that social media plays today. If you want to get a good sense of regular life during the 19th century, you can hardly do better than to just read 19th century newspapers. If you do, you’ll notice a striking absence of sports news. By the end of the century, a medium-sized newspaper might have a page or two per week devoted to their local sports teams’ games, but usually hardly more than that, while smaller papers didn’t even have that level of coverage. And if you read autobiographies of men and women who grew up in America in the early- to mid-19th centuries, you’ll typically find many references to playing sports, but few to no references to any sports idols.
This is in part because there weren’t any major sports leagues at that time. The first professional baseball team wasn’t founded until 1869, the first professional football players weren’t paid to play until 1892, and the first professional basketball league wasn’t founded until 1925.
All that said, while I think coffee_enjoyer is correct about the lack of sports heroes, I think he’s kind of wrong about young boys’ real heroes back in that day. Sure, they learned about great men of history and were taught to admire and emulate their virtues, but I don’t recall ever reading of a boy who had any real gripping, emotional connection to those men, as many boys do with sports superstars today. Instead, going by memoirs and autobiographies, most boys’ idols seem to have been older brothers, fathers, upperclassmen, teachers, fashionable young men around town, etc.
Lewis2
3mo ago
Yeah, if it weren’t for hairshirt environmentalists and watermelon Green Parties using climate change as an excuse to create a better world, conservatives would probably be more on board with conservation and more opposed to pollution.
Lewis2
3mo ago
But apparently the grocery stores don’t have rules against dogs either (or they’re not enforced, which amounts to the same thing).
Lewis2
3mo ago
I think this certainly was true, but with the rise in housing prices, I’m not sure it still is today, particularly if a couple wants to have a higher than replacement number of kids.
Lewis2
3mo ago
You seem, probably unconsciously, to be using arguments as soldiers here.
If we went dst all year, it would mean school started in the dark. ‘Just start school an hour later’ doesn’t really work since it’s timed to start before the workday, also getting out an hour later means getting home in the dark.
As things stand, your kids are already getting home in the dark, so that’s not a good argument to oppose any changes to the DST status quo.
In many parts of the country, it’s just not possible to have sunlight both before and after the work/school day. DST and choice of time zone have nothing to do with it.
Lewis2
3mo ago
What was the seed corn that you sold? I’m having a hard time figuring out what you’re thinking of.
Lewis2
3mo ago
Opposition to illegal immigration has been a pretty consistent Republican talking point since Reagan’s amnesty, if not sooner. But Republicans’ opinions on legal immigration have been much more mixed. This chart only goes up to 2018, unfortunately, but it shows that around 30–40% of Republicans have supported current legal immigration levels for the past 20 years, and an additional 15–20% have thought it should have been increased. Even today, 71% of Trump supporters would like to see more highly-skilled immigrants allowed to come to this county legally.
Lewis2
3mo ago
Resisting the puerile urge to immediately do all five…
Beginning any comment with "I mean,..." We know you mean it. Otherwise why are you writing it. Tedious.
I think people generally fall into two camps when it comes to online discussions. Some strive to write as tersely as possible, while others prefer to take a more conversational approach. Who’s to say either approach is inherently superior? The former can sound autistic robotic, but the latter is slightly less efficient, at least in theory. It seems to me that it’s just a matter of taste.
Lewis2
4mo ago
You say this like it’s the anti-euthanasia and anti-trans people who decided to start pushing for ridiculous outcomes in order to bolster their side. But in every case, it’s the proponents who have no sense of moderation.
Edit: On reflection, your second paragraph is basically just “Republicans pounce,” except with other groups subbed in for Republicans.
Lewis2
4mo ago
I’m puzzled by this response. Why would a kid who wants to grow up to be a dad be presumed by anyone to be gay, when gay men are less likely to have kids than straight men?
Lewis2
4mo ago
Yes, yes, a birth certificate, an identify document that can be altered to reflect transgender individuals’ gender identity in all but five states. So as long as a person has a birth certificate with his or her gender of choice, he should be able to use the restroom of his choosing as well?
Lewis2
4mo ago
I have no idea as to overall style, but in at least one respect—dynamic range (how quiet and loud a song gets)—there is far less variance than there used to be. A quick search pulled up this article from 2017, which in turn cited this video from 2006, showing that the trend has been going on for awhile.
Oh, Jews definitely have much higher levels of in-group bias than most Gentile whites (and, along similar lines, Evangelical Christians’ positive views of Jews are definitely not reciprocated), but it seems to me that Jewish success in America has less to do with nepotism than with higher IQ. White Baptists have nearly the same level of in-group bias as Jews do, yet they don’t have the same level of success despite having had a significant head start in this country. It seems to me that differences in IQ likely explain the bulk of those disparate outcomes.
Likewise, some blacks definitely experience some racial discrimination, but that doesn’t mean racism is the primary reason they have worse life outcomes on average.
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