The Most Dangerous Conservative
Townhall,
by
John Stossel
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
1/24/2024 2:22:12 PM
The New York Times put Charles Murray on the cover of its Sunday Magazine, calling him "The Most Dangerous Conservative."
That was after he co-wrote the book, "The Bell Curve," which argued that different ethnic groups have, on average, different IQs. As Murray puts it in my video this week, "Blacks on average have a lower IQ than whites. However, whites are not at the top. East Asians, on average, have a higher IQ than whites. Ashkenazi Jews have higher IQs." Other researchers agree.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
SkyKing1222 1/24/2024 2:37:04 PM (No. 1643437)
Amazing how the people who don’t like the Bell Curve, keep proving it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 1/24/2024 3:11:52 PM (No. 1643460)
The book DID NOT argue this point. The book was NOT about these differences. The book was about how people used be distributed in a bell curve in all jobs and how modern societies have, to some degree, sorted out the more intelligent and tended to push them to get college degrees.
The whole "race"angle was perhaps 5% of the book, and a sort of a glancing thing. It was NOT the topic of the book. And YES I have read the book.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Penney 1/24/2024 3:12:05 PM (No. 1643461)
Must all humanity continually be reminded that personal character is primo?! ...Apparently so, as some can't seem able to get off that merry-go-round, especially divisive politicos & their, 'journaIists.'
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Ruhn 1/24/2024 3:16:30 PM (No. 1643470)
#2, unfortunately there are a lot of college-educated, brain-washed idiots now.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Luandir 1/24/2024 3:18:20 PM (No. 1643473)
#2, I have also read "The Bell Curve." IIRC, the "racial' portion was ONE SENTENCE, very nearly the same as the one in the article. That's it. I would much rather he had left that out so that his many other valid points concerning sociology and criminology could enter the public discussion without being shouted down by the usual suspects.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
BarryNo 1/24/2024 3:28:58 PM (No. 1643486)
It's as educational methods and family involvement as native ability. Blacks have to practically raise themselves. Hispanics are often in similar straights. White sporadically help their kids, when they learn they're having trouble. Asians cram and recite and memorize. If it's not mom riding their studies, it's an older sibling. Failure, is not an option.
This is reflected on how well they do on these tests.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bpl40 1/24/2024 3:50:16 PM (No. 1643504)
#6, if you look at th list of institutions - corporations, consulting firms, financial institutions with Asians at their head then it is not just the tests at which they are doing well. But later in life too. About 11% of the student population in America's top 50 colleges is African American. Their percentage of the population is roughly 14%. The -ve difference is pointed out as pone proof of the country's innate racism. But is only academic performance like SAT AP and GPAs are considered in admission this percentage will drop below 3%. That is a reality Blacks and non-blacks in America live under.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
rememberwhen 1/24/2024 3:52:09 PM (No. 1643507)
Inconvenient facts are not well received.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
red1066 1/24/2024 4:28:13 PM (No. 1643545)
Who has a higher IQ isn't an issue. However, watch or read Jordan Peterson's assessment of people that have an IQ of 83 and lower. This group makes up ten percent of the total population. This is the real issue.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/24/2024 4:41:05 PM (No. 1643562)
I agree. I agreed in the 1970s when I bought the book, before the black race became the golden children of the world. A race doesn't pick up IQ average points in a 50 year period so the conclusions in the book are still valid. So are the causes and reasons for the disparity.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
privateer 1/24/2024 4:50:16 PM (No. 1643566)
Lionel Jefferson put it best: 'if you follow that line of reasoning, 88% of the Harlem Globetrotters ought to be white.' I refer to quotas, set-asides, and DEI commandments.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Gallo3 1/24/2024 5:35:32 PM (No. 1643593)
Amazing that 95% of all TV commercials feature Blacks that comprise only 12% of our population.
What the heck? and it isn't even Black History Month yet.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Newtsche 1/24/2024 6:06:25 PM (No. 1643607)
Look up law professor/medical doctor Amy Wax and learn of her real world experience.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mc squared 1/24/2024 6:28:09 PM (No. 1643615)
"whites are not at the top. East Asians, on average, have a higher IQ than whites. Ashkenazi Jews have higher IQs."
I'm white and I don't care about it,. but I get no special privileges, either.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
walcb 1/24/2024 10:52:32 PM (No. 1643722)
If you say white men can't jump the reaction will be either agreement or a chuckle but until Javier Sotomayor broke the high jump record it was held by a white man almost all of the years since 1827. As a side note it is kinda humorous that the record in 1827 was 5 feet 2 inches which is a foot less than a decent high school jumper can do now. Landing on sand after clearing 8 feet would not be pleasant.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Trigger2 1/25/2024 12:35:08 AM (No. 1643762)
Well, if blacks have a lower IQ, I place the blame on the failing public school system. It should be done away with and replaced by the Choice one.
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Trigger2 1/25/2024 12:41:25 AM (No. 1643766)
So that's why Paxton is considered dangerous - he's exposing the cheating of the 2020 election, which I also believed was committed by fraud. I remember those ccmpletely closed places counting ballots and forbidding anyone from witnessing it.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Trigger2 1/25/2024 12:42:01 AM (No. 1643768)
Woops, wrong site. The comment belongs on the next one about Paxton.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
MickTurn 1/25/2024 12:43:10 PM (No. 1644211)
I've seen some HIGH IQ folks in action...they can quote you all sorts of useless information but they can't tie their shoes. Is there a SHOE IQ?
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