The below video explores the race and intelligence question in significant detail and covers a lot of important ground. This makes the video worth watching. However, there is a very subtle undertone to the film, which will lead many to jump to the conclusion that the solution to the intelligence gap is government intervention to eliminate the differences between the rich and the poor. Indeed, the subtlety is dropped at the end of the film, where like a serpent out of the ocean, the films closes with a clip of Obama talking typical political nonsense.
Of course the solution is to get rid of govt programs and the minimum wage and give the Negro a low paying job opening doors or bagging groceries.
ReplyDeleteRe: Jerry Wolfgang,
Delete-- Of course the solution is to get rid of govt programs and the minimum wage and give the Negro a low paying job opening doors or bagging groceries. --
I see what you're doing there. A true racist would keep the government programs and raise the minimum wage to insure against the further employment of blacks, but by suggesting the contrary, you are basically making the other side want those things they're really against, sorta like when Bugs Bunny made Daffy say "It's duck season - shoot!"
Am I right or am I right, Jerry, sweetheart?
Well said. You're coming along, Jerry.
DeleteWow. What a typical lefty racist, believing that blacks can only get by with government intervention.
DeleteJW, why are you so racist?
DeleteNurture vs. nature is old and often barren ground. It seems clear that genetics makes a difference in all sorts of skills from the physical to the intellectual. In fact it is these very differences that can make for a rich and robust environment for achievement. Yet most of the educationists and professors cover up or minimize the differences. Pasadena teachers blame the "parents lack of skills to negotiate our system..." A typical response (blame the customer) from a monopolist who can't comprehend responding to a customer. And the commentator's insulting suggestion that blacks need their own Confucius to help build family support for hard work and education. Clearly this man is unaware of real Black history in the U.S. and should read the work of Anne Wortham and Thomas Sowell. One of the most obvious facts a discussion of nurture vs. nature can reveal is that there is no one size fits all. Eliminate the monolithic public school system in the U.S. and its fundamentally coercive structure and watch the learning and achievement bust out all over!
ReplyDeleteThe other side of the argument on IQ:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOnQPXuU81Q
My own inclination is to think that most of the motivation of the 'nurture' side (the dichotomy is problematic, true) is politically motivated. "We just need to spend $X trillion to close the gap." Unlikely, but beneficial to bureaucrats. Just the New Socialist Man all over again.
JW, are you referring to BHO?
ReplyDelete".....the films closes with a clip of Obama talking typical political nonsense." Have you ever heard Obama talk anything other than political nonsense?
Why not explore the social / media aspects? Black "role-models", such as Jay Z, implant in the brains of black teens that working hard and succeeding are 'white' traits. Black kids who study hard (like their asian / white counterparts) are called 'oreos'. The media is to blame for much of it. Of course, public schools are nothing but Bastilles of conformity that prevent black teens from thinking independently and succeeding.
ReplyDeleteThis is a terrible documentary that doesn't refer to any real genetic science or biology - just the idle speculation of some parents, psychologists, and teachers.
ReplyDeleteFor a review of the actual science, see Wade's new book - "A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History"