@whstancil The weight of slavery, Jim Crow, and redlining suddenly got vastly worse on African Americans the week that George Floyd died, causing despairing blacks to experience a historic increase in weekly deaths by car crash and homicide as the cops depoliced:
@whstancil Or, @whstancil, are you arguing that am I saying that African-Americans experienced genetic mutations on May 25, 2020 that within days made them on average dramatically shootier and worse drivers?
My recollection instead is that The Establishment encouraged a "racial reckoning."
@whstancil Black Lives Matter, which had gotten many incremental black lives murdered and splattered on the pavement in the Ferguson Effect of 2015-16, was dusted off and sacralized. Not surprisingly, BLM 2, the Floyd Effect, was even more lethal upon black lives:
@whstancil Race, which correlates strongly with who your ancestors are, thus tends to correlate with both your Nature (your genes) and your Nurture (your upbringing, your culture, etc.). Disentangling the roles of Nature and Nurture in explaining social facts is exceptionally challenging.
@whstancil In contrast to my even-handed intellectual curiosity about how the world works, your reaction to any discussion of Nature and Nurture is to go berserk over anybody mentioning the possibility that Nature might matter and call to "just get rid of them and apologize later."
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How dare the Trump Administration deport somebody with such kindly, innocent eyes back to Jamaica where he spent his first 23 years of his life just because he kidnapped somebody during his first year in the United States?
Look at what an unfashionable meal this convicted kidnapper is forced to have with his family back in Jamaica! It's a Human Rights Violation that's he's not eating sushi at Sushi Noz in Manhattan.
That living room paint job color the convicted kidnapper must endure back home with his family in Jamaica is a War Crime:
The single most useful thing Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson could do to get liberals back on a more realistic track would be to publicly point out what they privately know: "The race gap in intelligence? It's real, and we have no clue how to eliminate it, but we can live with it."
"What we can probably do is improve schooling somewhat for all races, but that would almost certainly boost Asians and whites as much as blacks and Hispanics. But that's okay. If everybody got better educated, that would make America better."
"And, we need to publicly admit that the race gap in crime rate isn't going away in this century. Asians are always going to be less crime-prone than blacks. What we can do, however, is lower everybody's crime rate. They did it in NYC by being tough on crime."
@burrrgers @wolfstrength I was a 6 year old at Heathrow Airport in 1965 when a young man with hair down to his collar, the average length in 1972, walked in. "Look, it's a Beatle!" screamed a girl.
The jet-setters surged toward him.
It turned out to be Peter Noone of Herman and the Hermits.
@burrrgers @wolfstrength I don't know anything about women's hairstyles, but I suspect men's hairstyles haven't been changing as fast anymore as they did between 1964 and 1974.
@burrrgers @wolfstrength The amount that people _cared_ about male hair length in the late 1960s sounds crazy to 21st Century people.
Democrats need to realize that they became so egregiously hate-filled toward whites, men, straights etc. during the Great Awokening that they are now paying the price by having a lot of their sinecures and grants taken away by the normally nice people whom they demonized.
Most normies we're tolerant of a moderate amount of discreet affirmative action, useless NGO spending, and soft-major nonsense until beginning in 2013 and peaking in the "racial reckoning" of 2020-2023, the left went nuts with overt racist, sexist, and genderist hatred.
It turned out that a big problem for the left with their controlling the media is that the New York Times wouldn't tell its subscribers that their racist anti-white hate and other vices were getting out of control until it was too late.
@Paracelsus1092 The idea that Sutton Hoo was the burial site of Anglo-Saxon heroes rich from fighting Persia for Byzantium fits with the Pirenne Thesis that the real Dark Ages in northern Europe began with the rise of Islam that cut off Europe from the advanced civilizations of the Near East.
@Paracelsus1092 Shortly after the death of the Prophet in 632 AD, Islam ripped into the exhausted Byzantine and Persian empires who had bankrupted themselves fighting a long war. Perhaps the wealth of Constantinople had been paid out to mercenaries from as far as Sutton Hoo in England?
@Paracelsus1092 The Pirenne Thesis is that Europe would have bumped along after the barbarian invasions without a truly disastrous Dark Ages except that the rise of Islam cut it off from the wealthy lands of Spain, North Africa, and the Near East.
The Good Life in Gov. Wendell Anderson's Minnesota (August 1973)
vs.
The Not So Good Life in Gov. Tim Walz's Minnesota (May 2020):
When I was in high school in the 1970s, Minnesota and Wisconsin competed for the reputation as the most well-ordered state in the Union.
Now, they compete to be the state that generates the most Steve Sailer Content.
From the 1973 "Time" story:
"Some argue that Minnesota works a bit too well and too blandly, that its ... serene population is a decade or two behind the rest of the U.S. The place lacks the fire, urgency and self-accusation of states with massive urban centers and problems."