RE: Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
August 31, 2018 at 3:30 am
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2018 at 4:02 am by bennyboy.)
(August 31, 2018 at 12:31 am)Khemikal Wrote: ...................................
You're not just reading the alt right script..at this point, you're following the playbook too.
No, I'm not even just doing that. I'm literally quoting from an alt-right site.
If someone makes a claim which you react to emotionally, the first thing you have to do is see if they're right. Then you have to decide whether it matters. I'm going to give some evidence, which is being used to demonstrate that race / IQ / income are covariant: i.e. that white people make more on average because they have higher IQ scores on average, and high-paying jobs require high IQs.
http://aristocratsofthesoul.com/average-...ethnicity/
This is an explicitly alt-right site. They give figures for iq by race, and also for income by race. It claims that Ashkenazy Jews have the highest average IQ at 110, and that black Americans have an average IQ of 85. Here's something I dug up on Wikipedia, but it's not in a main page, but rather in a pretty heated discussion of whether the data is valid or should be allowed:
![[Image: 700px-IQ_and_Global_Inequality.svg.png]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0c/IQ_and_Global_Inequality.svg/700px-IQ_and_Global_Inequality.svg.png)
It seems clear to me that this is a battleground issue, and for very obvious reasons. If the alt-right can prove the correlation they're claiming, the PC will have a hard time claiming that income inequality is due to deliberate oppression. If the PC left can disprove the correlation, or discredit it on basis that the data has been collected dishonestly, then the alt-right will have no basis upon which to build a case for white supremacy.
The main wikipedia page has quite a lot of sources, and randomly clicking on them seems (so far) to indicate that there are in fact differences in IQ, and that they've controlled for environment (for example, in adoption studies). However, there are some adoption studies which shows that adopted black children in good environments can still thrive, so. . .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence
See the process? Right-wing assholes make claims, then you go research the claims to see if they're true. Then, when you know the truth, you use it to inform social policy.
