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Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
RE: Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
(August 31, 2018 at 3:30 am)bennyboy Wrote: 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.
You know.... we just had an entire thread about this.....................

In any case, high paying jobs require networking. Ask yourself why networking might be difficult in a segregated environment. Say you manage to overcome that hurdle? Well, then you'll have to contend with the fact that a black sounding name on an app or resume means you are less likely to be called back. Say you overcome that hurdle and actually get the job? Womp womp, african americans are paid less than whites at -every- education level.

Billybob knows a guy, "William" performs well on an app, and he's gonna make more than his genius african american counterpart who just jumped through the hurdles above.


Quote: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.
Its the social justice warriors, not the pc folks, that would be charging forward on that..and no..they wouldn't have a hard time establishing the truth of that contention regardless - but it might be worthwhile to note that deliberate oppression doesn't really speak to the reality or totality of the situation.

Quote: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.
Yes...Benny, I see the process, and I see the process for what it is.  It's because I see the process, and see the process for what it is, that I know when someone has swallowed the koolaid. Let me ask you this, when right wing assholes crammed white victimization into your head..did you do your research and just decide it was true.......or...?
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RE: Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this? - by The Grand Nudger - August 31, 2018 at 8:25 am

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