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Culture War Roundup for the week of June 10, 2024

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I favor a more, well not entirely race-blind approach, but certainly a more targeted approach that mainly focuses on wealth as it is rather than other groupings.

Have you ever tried looking up achievement scores controlled for both race and income? The results are pretty gruesome across the board. Even if you completely leave aside all but the wealthiest blacks, you're left with a group that can compete with only the very poorest whites, while being crushed outright by even the most poverty-stricken Asians.

From an HBD point of view this is all totally unsurprising, but the other side is perpetually left scrambling for some kind of bullshit mini structural micro systemic racism that makes the family of a wealthy black doctor worse off than that of the Asian immigrant who scrubs their shitter for them. It's horseshit. It's a bad joke, and I don't need to fuck around in the weeds over statistical methodology to call it a joke.

I don't consider a Google Images search to be a well-sourced claim, and even beyond that, averages don't capture the whole picture. Which you might know, if you didn't have a complete disdain for statistical methodology. This isn't the weeds, it's the absolute bedrock basics, which I keep trying to tell you. Do you have an actual source? Do you recognize that your stated claims above don't even match the data you yourself hint at?

I don't consider a Google Images search to be a well-sourced claim,

I don't consider vague handwaving in the direction of poverty to be a serious argument in the first place. If there were any meaningful population-level cognitive metric where the racial gap could be plausibly reduced to income, or any other factor able to be discussed in polite company, the media would make sure absolutely everyone knew about it and this place would have fifty threads per month on the topic.

If you do happen to be sitting on such game-changing data then feel free to make a top-level post on the subject in this week's thread, as I'm sure everyone will be very much interested, but personally I'm done here.

If not, then don't feel glum. The people who agree with you are the ones actually making policy on the subject, and that's likely to remain the case indefinitely. You'll get to spend the rest of your life talking about how the gap can theoretically be closed.

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