tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post297263027633384781..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: Acceptance And AccommodationFrancis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-64408330933391378492020-08-06T17:09:43.841-04:002020-08-06T17:09:43.841-04:00"Sure, they’re not much like us most ways, bu..."Sure, they’re not much like us most ways, but that doesn’t mean they can’t become more like us. We can educate them..."<br /><br />The first mistake of many. We should not have "educated" (a nice euphemism for "indoctrinate") them at all. We should have let them be. The very fact "we" made it our job to improve them was what sealed their fate. Already their lower average IQ and unfortunate history in America was two strikes against them. We did them no favors.<br /><br />"If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life."<br />-- Henry David ThoreauPaul Bonneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15279129269584372919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-6445995441711771192020-08-03T08:02:42.549-04:002020-08-03T08:02:42.549-04:00Linda and Nitz: The "culture canard" doe...<b>Linda and Nitz:</b> The "culture canard" doesn't hold water once we take account of our social pathologies' disproportionate representation among blacks. At the very least there's another factor at work. I say it's race -- not because there are no decent, law abiding, responsible, highly accomplished blacks, but because the disproportion speaks to statistical differences in intelligence, the ability to self-restrain and self-deny, and the propensity toward aggression. <br /><br />Your challenge is to explain why the hypothesized culture that causes American blacks to be heavily over-represented among felons, drug users, unemployed idlers, the ineducable, and the producers of illegitimate children is so prevalent among them and so weak among other races. Though I admire Sowell, Williams, Larry Elder, and other specific black thinkers, their existence is irrelevant to the larger issue. All distributions have tails. It doesn’t prove that women are taller than men to stand a five-foot man next to a six-foot woman. <br /><br />Consider the enduring statistical differences among Oriental, Caucasian, and Negro intelligence distributions. The mere mention of those differences has destroyed the careers of several perfectly honorable researchers who sought to investigate them. Yet the differences persist despite enormous efforts to reduce or eliminate them. How could this be, unless there were some factor powerfully resistant if not utterly immune to environmental correction?<br /><br />If it were culture, black assimilation to the more successful white/Asian norms would correct the problem over time. But instead of progress we've seen <b><i>regress:</i></b> actual increases in the pathologies and socially disruptive behaviors mentioned above. That such things tend to attenuate as the demographic ages is understandable: crime, violence, and the destructive vices are "a young man's game." But we all start out as infants; no society can contrive to have some of its people skip from the cradle directly to mature middle-age.<br /><br />Whatever the reason may be – and any of us could be right, wrong, or somewhere in between – it demands exploration. And with that let us segue to the hoped-for discussion I suggested earlier this morning. <br />Francis W. Porrettohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-5688821190383957312020-08-03T07:32:29.845-04:002020-08-03T07:32:29.845-04:00@Linda:
Agree. Culture.
You look at titans like...@Linda:<br /><br />Agree. Culture.<br /><br />You look at titans like Williams, Sowell, Elder, Steele, Owens, and others... perfectly capable. But it's the VALUES they had instilled that made them. As opposed to no-father homes, chasin' hoes, etc., and that culture.NITZAKHONhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04110716447757507226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-32981461805879622132020-08-03T05:43:53.737-04:002020-08-03T05:43:53.737-04:00That 'immigrants' part - should have said ...That 'immigrants' part - should have said "many have immigrant heritage" - not all (unless you count moving from the South, or the North, to be a migration).Linda Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15024201252345608291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-69467565459160661402020-08-03T05:42:22.060-04:002020-08-03T05:42:22.060-04:00And, yet, amazingly, despite the pull towards the ...And, yet, amazingly, despite the pull towards the easy life, many in the Black community withstand the temptation. Most are:<br />- strongly religious<br />- military in family<br />- educated in parochial/charter/private schools<br />- immigrants - Caribbean, Africa, other English speaking countries<br /><br />I've had students - many - who demonstrated traits that marked them for success in modern life. They are not different due to genetics (some come from the same kinds of family situations that sideline others); but they have the ability to withstand pressure to take the easy way.<br /><br />There are others - many of them White in both color and upbringing - who have wasted their time on the planet. They demonstrate no difference between their actions and those of the 'Urban Youth' that cause so much chaos to their own lives and that of their family.<br /><br />It's not color - it's culture.Linda Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15024201252345608291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-55227368020173488032020-08-02T08:59:51.139-04:002020-08-02T08:59:51.139-04:00I expect, sometime soon, that vanilla ice cream to...I expect, sometime soon, that vanilla ice cream to be banned, as it is a symbol of white supremacy, the patriarchy and anything else these people can name that's caused all the evil in this country. Bend over backwards until your spine breaks white man!SWVAguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10661677638340868536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-35779484347863452352020-08-01T09:59:00.259-04:002020-08-01T09:59:00.259-04:00Apropos nothing, but this Trump ad is a MUST POST....Apropos nothing, but this Trump ad is a MUST POST. I'll be posting it too, tomorrow.<br /><br />It is uplifing, inspiring, proud, bold, pro-American, mentions G-d. Of course the Left is approaching stroke-level blood pressure watching it even as I watch it and feel hope again.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z88rA5HFrUNITZAKHONhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04110716447757507226noreply@blogger.com