What If I’m Right?
Taki´s Magazine,
by
Steve Sailer
Original Article
Posted By: PostAway,
6/2/2021 1:07:32 PM
Since the previous century I’ve been articulating in the public arena an array of interconnecting ideas about how the world works. For example, I tend to suspect that racial differences in achievement in 2021 have more to do with nature and nurture, with culture and human biodiversity, than with unspecifiable malevolence on the part of white men as dictated by the theory of systemic racism.
(Note that I don’t put very much effort into telling you how I think the world should work, just how it does work. At least, the latter’s testable.)
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Axeman 6/2/2021 1:53:16 PM (No. 803872)
I can think like Sailer but I can't write like him. It would be only one paragraph from me but I wouldn't write it because it seems all obvious and self evident to me. And I know reality offends too many people.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 6/2/2021 1:54:50 PM (No. 803874)
Facts are stubborn things.
Look at THE place where blacks were 100% of the population for 10,000+ years, subSaharan Africa. Because they were not entirely cut off from the middle eastern and Greek/Roman sources of knowledge, and Indian sources, but only by difficult overland travel, they were aware of metal working, but did very little of it, were aware of the wheel, but used it little, and built......nothing much but grass huts and raised a few cows and planted with digging sticks. Look at what was found in Africa as late as the 1910 era. No written languages that I am aware of, no real art beyond some carved wooden masks and a few animal carvings. Tribal societies warring on each other, and starving, with no mathematics, no astronomy, no architecture .....sadly similar to the failed, stagnant, writing and math free societies of the Americas.
Racial or cultural? Hell, I don't know and difference does it make? The net effect is that subSaharan African and pre-Columbian American cultures/races/peoples whatever you want to call it developed very, very little in the way of advancement in culture, knowledge, arts, music, sciences, transportation, food growing, tool making, literature, ideas or .......much of enduring value at all. The Greeks and Romans in about 1000 years total developed ALL the fundamental basis for pretty much modern EVERYTHING.
I will NOT apologize for the fact that white and middle eastern, (especially prior to the destructive Mohammedan infection) out to India, cultures/societies did develop A LOT of value. And those people and those cultures continue to do "the heavy lifting" of making the world more prosperous and more comfortable, more predictable, and more pleasant while the "usual suspects" freeload at best, and destroy at worst.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Newtsche 6/2/2021 2:18:03 PM (No. 803896)
^^^^^
#2, but..but..Wakanda!
BTW FWIW the dissemblers will suggest Africa's tradition of oral history outweighs a lack of written language. **rolls eyes**
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Newtsche 6/2/2021 3:08:08 PM (No. 803940)
Let me add, despite my flippancy, do read this article. As #1 observes, you know this stuff, Sailer offers a thorough presentation.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
AntiStatist 6/2/2021 5:43:31 PM (No. 804053)
You are right.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque 6/2/2021 9:08:59 PM (No. 804200)
RACE has NO biological evidence. A person with different skin tones/eye shape/nose shape, body shape is a result of adaptation. We all have the same amount of chromosomes, same blood type(s), same biological processes. There is no biological RACE. The last time there was, the Neanderthals, biology still proved that the differences were so slight that Cro-Magnons absorbed it into their populace. This is not Leftist twaddle. This is known biological FACT.
As a human being, I am deeply offended when someone tries to tell me that one skin color has any connection to a level of intelligence, or that it has any inherent expression of how a human being forms culture. I reject anyone who says otherwise. Plenty of people understand this, acknowledge this, and consider it FACT...that includes Martin Luther King, who expressed it the best. Anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to scam you.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Newtsche 6/2/2021 11:22:48 PM (No. 804282)
So a person can only adapt differently through skin tones/eye shape/nose shape and body shape?
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Sailer dares go where woke men fear to tread: Race is real, there are differences between the races and if Americans can’t be honest about the differences we will continue to suffer from our maladjustment to reality.