TitaniumButterfly
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TitaniumButterfly
4d ago
"We must jealously guard what remains of the European genetic legacy; we will be overwhelmed by replacement migration and our genes will be diluted beyond recognition, as we simply are not numerous enough (nor fertile enough) to remain genetically separate under those conditions.”
What's sad to me is that these people rarely understand why that's cause for concern besides the cosmetic aspect. Even (by modern standards) extremist racists have only the vaguest notion of how phenomenologically-different we all are.
TitaniumButterfly
5d ago
Stay at home moms are probably the most important ingredient of social fabric.
TitaniumButterfly
6d ago
Yep, that's it. We did it The Motte!
TitaniumButterfly
6d ago
Your second link seems to go to a First Things article about secular monks.
TitaniumButterfly
9d ago
Okinawans are not ethnically Japanese. Different people, history, culture, language, phenotypes. Conquered fairly recently.
TitaniumButterfly
15d ago
I interpreted it as an ironic joke, along the lines of 'billions must die'. Just casually throwing that in at the end.
TitaniumButterfly
18d ago
I've wondered for a while whether bin Laden realized the sheer magnitude of his own success. From what I can tell he didn't talk about it much.
TitaniumButterfly
19d ago
I seriously looked into opening a daycare center a couple years ago because my area was obviously chronically underserved, and found that workforce was in fact the main bottleneck. Finding people to do that sort of job for less than $35/hr is apparently impossible. Talked to a couple people who have made it work and they said the secret was to hire friends or people from church.
In-home daycares are also unbelievably scarce despite the much lower (still ridiculous) barrier to entry.
Nannies are likewise at least $30/hr.
People simply don't want to do the work.
What has that to do with anything? They couldn't measure IQ. We can. This isn't a matter of opinion.
TitaniumButterfly
20d ago
What could you say about India today that you couldn't about those countries then that suggests India couldn't achieve similar?
Poor genetic intelligence, obviously.
you're beyond well integrated, you're self-hating
I think this is incorrect, incredibly-rude, and uncalled for.
almost none of us care about "mixed-race" grandkids
Because we live in a shockingly-ignorant era downstream of generations of constant indoctrination ensuring we're incapable of comprehending the existence of the foreigner. One of my favorite things about non-whites is that they tend to not be laboring under any illusions when it comes to how different we all actually are from each other.
think that well integrated immigrants ... water down our culture and social cohesion
"Well-integrated" is doing so much work here as to make this tautological.
TitaniumButterfly
22d ago
Yes, I was a lot younger and not yet so aware of how out of hand the situation had gotten in general.
EDIT:
probably indicative of other trad religious leanings they might disapprove of
Also, yes.
TitaniumButterfly
22d ago
Someone made an offhand comment about how 'old-fashioned' it was (in general, and pejoratively) and I disagreed and it went from there.
TitaniumButterfly
22d ago
This is the situation as I understand it, yes.
TitaniumButterfly
22d ago
I was astonished when my fiancee's family got indignant and saw it as a red flag that we were waiting until marriage to have sex.
I can't imagine that this is possibly the case, though I have no trouble believing that it's often insisted upon and that a lot of work has gone into plausibly maintaining the position.
E.g., SSAs are known to be more self-confident (i.e. lower neuroticism) cross-culturally, and inasmuch as 'openness' is at least partly a proxy for intelligence...
TitaniumButterfly
23d ago
Your insistence on completely failing to grasp the point is growing disheartening.
TitaniumButterfly
23d ago
For me the cool part was that I'm not on twitter much and it seemed eminently plausible that the discourse there has actually already been captured by toxoplasmic AIs. Can't be long now, anyway.
TitaniumButterfly
23d ago
TitaniumButterfly
23d ago
This conversation doesn't seem to be helping so I'll thank you for it and duck out. But I think the word 'closer' is doing you more harm than good. I've already been very clear that I'm talking about amount of shared alleles. Actually, hold on- here, @Sloot just illustrated the matter in a way that might help.
Anyway, have a lovely whatever it is wherever you are.
TitaniumButterfly
23d ago
The data on whether mixed race people outperform the average of their ethnic ancestry should be pretty simple to come by.
If you click that link in my post (the one to which you're responding here) you'll get some insight into how not-simple that is, actually. Mixed-race people are almost definitionally born to outlier parents, e.g.
TitaniumButterfly
23d ago
Thanks. I didn't feel like bothering with that. This stuff is super interesting to me and I'm very sure of what I'm saying but it really does seem to upset people and then they want to argue and no matter what it never seems to be enough, which leaves me wondering what their hangup is in the first place.
TitaniumButterfly
23d ago
Yes, and if he wanted to maintain the pretense he might also elaborate that he has another on the way and was tired enough that he wanted to make sure he wasn't double-counting her. As I said, take it or leave it.
TitaniumButterfly
23d ago
No, it results in a child that is closer to both parents genetically than other other random child on Earth is.
You're simply mistaken about this. Actually you're so mistaken that I'm not even sure how deep the problem goes. Probably some sort of thought experiment would help but it's morning chaos hour in my house and constructing one that covers all the contingencies would be a real chore.
It might be instructive to think about how closely-related brothers are compared to each other and their children.
EDIT: Oh! And because it's specifically relevant do note that kids aren't 'half' each parent, but can swing as far out as about 2/3 one and 1/3 the other, though in most cases yeah it's generally close to half and half.
I feel mean for laughing at this but it is pretty hilarious. Of course it could probably also be said of Trump. Lord, have mercy.
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