I actually think fathers are more important than mothers after about 5-6 years old. What makes a person good and functional in society is based in no small part to life lessons and examples of respect and self-discipline. People who go through life doing what feels good never seem to make it very far in life. This isn't something commonly taught or exemplified by women. But if you want to see what's wrong with society, try looking at it through the lens of needing more respect and self-discipline.
Love and respect are two very different things. Love is how one person feels about another. Respect is how one person treats others and the world and is a reflection of that person's character and who and what they are as people.
Your children are a reflection of yourself. If they are difficult, it's because you are difficult. It absolutely amazes me that people never quite get this. If you want to have good children, be a better person. Seriously.
I know it sounds all "conspiracy theory-ish" but some time ago the US government sent out bids for guillotine devices. As gorey as that sounds, it doesn't have to be. Consider that only a select few connections need to be severed between the head and the rest of the body and the head never has to look like it was removed even if it has been in effect. Combine that with common anesthesia and you have a humane way to put people down that will not [likely] fail.
Seriously. If you want to know what's wrong and what you can do about it, start asking the people who don't want to use your stuff why!! It's ask if Microsoft listens only to its remaining fans and only wants to recycle what it has built over the last 20 years. My middle son who is among the least technical people I know wouldn't want a Windows phone because he thinks it will get trashed like his PC running Windows. I don't try to dissuade him from that view but I didn't exactly encourage it either.
Microsoft would to well to listen to the people who don't like them. I see no indication they ever do that.
And as far a rich and powerful companies go? Microsoft is among the few who could afford to spend a lot of money remaking itself.
Good, now I don't have to say it. I'll just be among those who agree with it.
This is no different, in my opinion, than having a "smart TV" (or an xbox360/one) in your livingroom and having advertisers gaining access to your entertainment device. For many people, there is literally no distinction. We are not required to hand over our privacy and security to support someone else's business model. Some would say "if you consume, you are morally obligated" but I disagree.
Someone needs to stand in front of congress and say "hey, this isn't a problem for Firefox users because they have a convenient and largely effective means by which they can protect themselves. MSIE and Chrome, not so much, and this is by design. Talk to the companies who support these malicious advertisers about why they choose not to protect their customers."
Said it before, I'll say it again. The worst thing the cable company ever did was refuse to give me free TV with my internet. Been well over five years now and I am more productive and lively. Sure, there are some shows I like. I can watch them online when I want to see them. I don't need TV for anything. Let them raise rates until they fail. We don't need them.
Success depends on the ability to ignore quality issues and the costs that come with them. And it's RACIST to say that people of other nations can't do it as well as we can in the US.
When electricity was new, a LOT of people were bitten by the bug. Electrical tinkering was everywhere. You don't see that so much now. Occasionally you will see something interesting, but those individuals who still have an interest in it are rare. For most people, electrical devices and electricity are just a part of life.
Cars and roads and all the things that make civilization are all the same in this respect. And computers and all that? Moore's law is dead. The excitement is dead with it. More and more it is just business and daily communications and the like. It's not rare, novel or unusual and therefore not interesting to the masses.
We're witnessing the maturing of an industry. It will remain important, but the players will be fewer. And seriously, when was the last time you saw people lined up outside of CompUSA to buy the next version of Windows? That's literally decades ago and things have seriously gone downhill since that time. It's all normal and common infrastructure now.
It kind of makes me wonder what the next great technological wonder will be and how everyone will jump on it the way we all did with computers over the last what? 30+ years? We're kind of due for it.
Looking back... looking back... nope. I never asserted languages affect the direction of society and the building of civilization. What I said was a bit different in that the language framework of people's minds have everything to do with their success in a larger world. As cultures grow and develop, the outlook on the world has everything to with with the language they think in. "Why are Germans smarter"? It's a simple question given similar educational materials and plans.
Language does, however, have a whole lot to do with success of a society. "Magical key to success?" I wouldn't profess to know such a thing. But whether looking to a group of people speaking a common language or a group speaking many languages, those that have a language which can describe a working model of reality are best suited to success. Amazing behavioral differences are observed depending on whether or not a language supports 'future tense' for example where people who live in a linguistic structure with future tense have a more difficult time identifying with their future selves and therefore are less likely to save or to do anything which will benefit themselves in the future. Given that you know the word "Whorfian" I would expect you already know this.
I am not professing to know why because we simply don't know enough about the brain and mind especially as we consistently insist the mind (brain) is not a part of the body. But refusal to acknowledge the larger trends and studies on the subject? Regardless of whether a complete explanation can be offered or accepted is no reason to reject observational data.
And then there's the simple reality: An organized mind works better. An organized mind with the ability to grow is better still. An organized mind which can grow and imagine the world completely is what most would hold to be ideal... unless you're looking for factory workers.
Be specific. What is actually wrong. I could claim you're a moron for disagreeing with me too, but how is that discussion? You are clearly trite and thoughtless.
Let's keep the topic of languages to LIVING languages? Your haughty and detailed discussion of Chinese language origins is hardly relevant to present language facts and features. Let's talk about "original English" which bears almost no resemblance to currently spoken standard English as long as we're talking about useless tangents of discussion. Dead languages simply don't count where the affect language has on the structure of the mind and the intelligence which results from it.
Have you ever been charged with training your replacement? Knowing you're getting the sack? That's exactly how this feels to me. This is more than "they took our jobs." We see the washing away of western heritage and culture all over and people are only now waking up to it. Read some news from around the world and look into the struggles in European nations with their immigrant problems as well as here in the US. And if it were an honest competition, that would be fine. But this is something being shoved down the throats of the public.
It has been said long ago by people wiser than me that you cannot maintain a first world nation by importing the third world. And ideally, it would be better to encourage the third world to rise up. However, attempts to doing that invariably seem to fail as long as leadership remains native.
The people of the US and Brazil both love sports. But the similarities end when you note that Brazilians take their fandom a bit too far. The deadly violence should need no linking. Liberia has been built and rebuilt by western people multiple times and each time it collapses into what the people make of it. Zimbabwe? Know about its history? South Africa? Recently one of the white anti-Apartheid leaders was murdered because he was white. There's just no getting around certain realities -- realities such as the notion of "a bad neighborhood."
By saying "bad neighborhood" or "bad area" people are placing the blame for things "on the environment" as if the solution is to move people out of the environment to make their lives better somehow. Really? What makes a neighborhood bad? Trees? The ground? Buildings? Streets? None of those things are responsible for people's behavior. It is the people themselves. That is what makes bad situations bad and relocating them will not improve things. And neither will helping them learn a second language as long as their culture and thinking are not a part of the program.
But we are training our replacements. The 0.1% has decided they need more and everyone else needs less. Look where things are going. Everything we do in the US is destroying family and the family unit. There are people out there saying our children are not our children, that they belong to the state and are allowed to remain with us at their pleasure. This is no exaggeration. That we, as a nation, have disposed of our seniors into rotten, stinky 'retirement homes' speaks volumes of what has gone wrong. And now someone has decided to profit from it further? It is more than merely appalling. It's disgusting. And it's not how things are supposed to be. How are they supposed to be?
We have families. We have children and we love and teach them and they, in turn, love us. We get older and if we loved and taught them right, they will take care of us in our old age and so the cycle continues. But that's not what has been happening has it? The notion of the family has been all but destroyed. Birth rates in the first world all over are unsustainably low due to new societal norms which require everyone be career-minded caring nothing about family. Lately in the news there are even stories of women who are literally buying positive pregnancy tests in order to try to trap men. That's how far we've gone and that's just a mild example.
There is just so much wrong with the program I have gotten very worked up about it. It would be ideal if we could share language and culture to the betterment of all the world. But that's not what's driving all of that. They are training call center workers and other cheap labor. Quite literally, it's a program of training our replacements using our society's discarded seniors, taking advantage of their empty, lonely lives.
This is no troll. This is outrage over how bad things have gotten. I was born in the 60s. I know a better time. I grew up with a grandmother who taught my mother and me about values of the family and of good living. My post-depression-era grandmother had much to teach u
People succeeding and failing regardless of the language they speak? Are you seriously making that statement?
The most successful people are those that speak the lingua franca. (Yes, I know exactly what that means and where the term came from.) The Chinese are not a counter-example. When the Chinese became more unified, they did so through language unification and even simplification. The language has become very efficient. And English? Well, it's the lingua franca for now despite how bad it's getting.
I seriously don't know why I have been modded as flamebait. What have I said that's not true? It's far from pseudoscience when there have been many studies on the connection between language and intelligence which lead to this general understanding. It may be simplistic to say, but highly illustrative to the point, but languages that do not include a zero in their counting systems understandably have weaker math skills. That should come as no surprise to anyone. But as language and standards and styles of usage go, it's not hard to see where things break down and fail.
People are amazingly quick to bash, but amazingly reluctant to to offer up anything substantive to counter. (And once again, in case I wasn't clear, there is no 3000 year old Chinese language. Mandarin, in its current form doesn't go back that far. The oldest standard goes back what? Just over 600 years or so? So if you think you are right, please try again.
Get used to it. The word which means "oriental" (east asian?) has become "asian" to the exclusion of all others who live and die in "asia." To say "United States of America" is simply inconvenient. Most of the world has accepted that to refer to America is to refer to the nation known as the United States of America. Any other means of expression which may be more accurate is simply too inconvenient. It does appear to strip all other American nations of their "Americanity" but that doesn't seem to harm Canada or Mexico's identity and Brazil certainly seems to stand on its own as well. (In fact, better in some ways... turns out Brazil didn't fall for many the banking scams which resulted in a suffering global economy... not very "American" of them was it?)
So yes. Be pedantic. You have identified a problem. Do you have a solution to offer?
Language is the encoding and structure of the mind. It is no mystery why certain groups consistently yield the best civilization while others yield human robots and others a great deal less.
Language is culture and it is thinking and it is belief. Some languages simply need to die for the betterment of humanity. I can't speak to these languages you have been learning, but I can speak to the advancement of some languages which better humanity. The Chinese have known this for a very long time. It is still yet to be heard as 'news' by most of the world.
Nothing can limit people more than the limits of their minds. Nothing. And not all languages are equal.
I have seen far too much senior exploitation. Any profits made by this enterprise should be surrendered to benefit the seniors being used. Not only are they being used. They are being used to further facilitate the downfall of the USA and its cultures and history.
I challenge anyone to find senior participants in this program who doesn't reek of piss and vomit and worse. That's not the "new deal" these seniors signed up for. And if we, as we grow older, have any hope to live our last years in dignity, we would to well to ensure our seniors do as well. It is a tradition of respect that will save us and nothing else.
Paying too much isn't paying too much. When "stupid government spending" is highlighted, the people are entertained by this as if it were some kind of joke. It's not. This is highlighting and obvious channel by which money is being moved. You're supposed to find out who the government is buying paperclips from, who made the decision and all that. You will find that giving the people's money out to these other people is the return on investment. So what's the investment? That's what we're supposed to be looking at.
I love this! For once an argument for not patenting software tech. The claims of something stolen without evidence? That's probably actionable somehow.
I was thinking the very same thing. It would be nice if there was some sort of tech (which didn't invade privacy) could inhibit phone use in a moving vehicle. Problem is "what about passengers?" Too many others would be caught in such a net. I don't know what the answer should be. But I have been seeing it more and more often these days. I'm a "good driver." I don't actually use my phone while driving. Do I wish I could? YES! I just don't have the talent others seem to have. (My sons can text on an iPhone in their frikken pockets!) I know my limits and I observe them. I wish I could say the same for others. And that woman I saw yesterday putting on makeup on her way to work (or wherever)...? GEEZ!!!!
Tyranny of statistics. Indeed. When looking at the rate of criminal, especially violent crimal activity, especially violent criminal activity resulting in death and dismemberment, the statistics point unfavorably in a particular group's favor.
I'm guessing everyone missed it when the Obama administration took over the census statistics -- the ones used by everyone for a variety of purposes including detecting voter fraud and all of that.
IQ might appear to be meaningless until you see the continuous results of all of this. When you search the term "model minority" you will find all sorts of hateful things. Largely among these are indication that while one ethnic group might seems to struggle due to environmental conditions, others seem to come through it all rather successfully by properly taking advantage of government programs intended to alleviate the problems of adverse environmental conditions.
And let's never talk about Liberia and the failure of every African nation not under western influence. First Zimbabwe and then S. Africa? The word hostile comes to mind and they certainly had their way to their own peril and suffering.
How much of a much bigger picture does anyone need to know before they come to realize what had been consitently stated for literally hundreds if not thousands of years?
And back to tyranny of statistics -- really. Is it tyrannical? Attempting to capture objective reality to better understand what is wrong is tyranny? Let's not forget the purpose of statistics. The opposite of stats is anecdotes and it thrills me to no end that the response to statistics here is anecdotes. (And it should trouble everyone who cites black successes to note that hearly none are 100% black. Tyson is part puerto-rican which is a mix of all sorts. So if anyone wants to pick anecdotal evidence, at least make it valid.)
I used to be on a completely different page than I am on today. I wasn't born or raised this way. I was well into my 20s and 30s before I began to see what's what in life. This, of course, also goes back to statitical tyranny -- trying to deny reality by denial of knowledge is and has always been the classic play by tyrants.
Disparate impact... it's going to be with us for a while. Might as well get used to it. Black people are generally less intelligent than others and it's our fault.
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I actually think fathers are more important than mothers after about 5-6 years old. What makes a person good and functional in society is based in no small part to life lessons and examples of respect and self-discipline. People who go through life doing what feels good never seem to make it very far in life. This isn't something commonly taught or exemplified by women. But if you want to see what's wrong with society, try looking at it through the lens of needing more respect and self-discipline.
Love and respect are two very different things. Love is how one person feels about another. Respect is how one person treats others and the world and is a reflection of that person's character and who and what they are as people.
Your children are a reflection of yourself. If they are difficult, it's because you are difficult. It absolutely amazes me that people never quite get this. If you want to have good children, be a better person. Seriously.
I know it sounds all "conspiracy theory-ish" but some time ago the US government sent out bids for guillotine devices. As gorey as that sounds, it doesn't have to be. Consider that only a select few connections need to be severed between the head and the rest of the body and the head never has to look like it was removed even if it has been in effect. Combine that with common anesthesia and you have a humane way to put people down that will not [likely] fail.
Seriously. If you want to know what's wrong and what you can do about it, start asking the people who don't want to use your stuff why!! It's ask if Microsoft listens only to its remaining fans and only wants to recycle what it has built over the last 20 years. My middle son who is among the least technical people I know wouldn't want a Windows phone because he thinks it will get trashed like his PC running Windows. I don't try to dissuade him from that view but I didn't exactly encourage it either.
Microsoft would to well to listen to the people who don't like them. I see no indication they ever do that.
And as far a rich and powerful companies go? Microsoft is among the few who could afford to spend a lot of money remaking itself.
Good, now I don't have to say it. I'll just be among those who agree with it.
This is no different, in my opinion, than having a "smart TV" (or an xbox360/one) in your livingroom and having advertisers gaining access to your entertainment device. For many people, there is literally no distinction. We are not required to hand over our privacy and security to support someone else's business model. Some would say "if you consume, you are morally obligated" but I disagree.
Someone needs to stand in front of congress and say "hey, this isn't a problem for Firefox users because they have a convenient and largely effective means by which they can protect themselves. MSIE and Chrome, not so much, and this is by design. Talk to the companies who support these malicious advertisers about why they choose not to protect their customers."
Said it before, I'll say it again. The worst thing the cable company ever did was refuse to give me free TV with my internet. Been well over five years now and I am more productive and lively. Sure, there are some shows I like. I can watch them online when I want to see them. I don't need TV for anything. Let them raise rates until they fail. We don't need them.
Success depends on the ability to ignore quality issues and the costs that come with them. And it's RACIST to say that people of other nations can't do it as well as we can in the US.
When electricity was new, a LOT of people were bitten by the bug. Electrical tinkering was everywhere. You don't see that so much now. Occasionally you will see something interesting, but those individuals who still have an interest in it are rare. For most people, electrical devices and electricity are just a part of life.
Cars and roads and all the things that make civilization are all the same in this respect. And computers and all that? Moore's law is dead. The excitement is dead with it. More and more it is just business and daily communications and the like. It's not rare, novel or unusual and therefore not interesting to the masses.
We're witnessing the maturing of an industry. It will remain important, but the players will be fewer. And seriously, when was the last time you saw people lined up outside of CompUSA to buy the next version of Windows? That's literally decades ago and things have seriously gone downhill since that time. It's all normal and common infrastructure now.
It kind of makes me wonder what the next great technological wonder will be and how everyone will jump on it the way we all did with computers over the last what? 30+ years? We're kind of due for it.
... I just can't imagine how anyone would be offended or in the least bit concerned over this.
Looking back... looking back... nope. I never asserted languages affect the direction of society and the building of civilization. What I said was a bit different in that the language framework of people's minds have everything to do with their success in a larger world. As cultures grow and develop, the outlook on the world has everything to with with the language they think in. "Why are Germans smarter"? It's a simple question given similar educational materials and plans.
Language does, however, have a whole lot to do with success of a society. "Magical key to success?" I wouldn't profess to know such a thing. But whether looking to a group of people speaking a common language or a group speaking many languages, those that have a language which can describe a working model of reality are best suited to success. Amazing behavioral differences are observed depending on whether or not a language supports 'future tense' for example where people who live in a linguistic structure with future tense have a more difficult time identifying with their future selves and therefore are less likely to save or to do anything which will benefit themselves in the future. Given that you know the word "Whorfian" I would expect you already know this.
I am not professing to know why because we simply don't know enough about the brain and mind especially as we consistently insist the mind (brain) is not a part of the body. But refusal to acknowledge the larger trends and studies on the subject? Regardless of whether a complete explanation can be offered or accepted is no reason to reject observational data.
And then there's the simple reality: An organized mind works better. An organized mind with the ability to grow is better still. An organized mind which can grow and imagine the world completely is what most would hold to be ideal... unless you're looking for factory workers.
Be specific. What is actually wrong. I could claim you're a moron for disagreeing with me too, but how is that discussion? You are clearly trite and thoughtless.
Let's keep the topic of languages to LIVING languages? Your haughty and detailed discussion of Chinese language origins is hardly relevant to present language facts and features. Let's talk about "original English" which bears almost no resemblance to currently spoken standard English as long as we're talking about useless tangents of discussion. Dead languages simply don't count where the affect language has on the structure of the mind and the intelligence which results from it.
Have you ever been charged with training your replacement? Knowing you're getting the sack? That's exactly how this feels to me. This is more than "they took our jobs." We see the washing away of western heritage and culture all over and people are only now waking up to it. Read some news from around the world and look into the struggles in European nations with their immigrant problems as well as here in the US. And if it were an honest competition, that would be fine. But this is something being shoved down the throats of the public.
It has been said long ago by people wiser than me that you cannot maintain a first world nation by importing the third world. And ideally, it would be better to encourage the third world to rise up. However, attempts to doing that invariably seem to fail as long as leadership remains native.
The people of the US and Brazil both love sports. But the similarities end when you note that Brazilians take their fandom a bit too far. The deadly violence should need no linking. Liberia has been built and rebuilt by western people multiple times and each time it collapses into what the people make of it. Zimbabwe? Know about its history? South Africa? Recently one of the white anti-Apartheid leaders was murdered because he was white. There's just no getting around certain realities -- realities such as the notion of "a bad neighborhood."
By saying "bad neighborhood" or "bad area" people are placing the blame for things "on the environment" as if the solution is to move people out of the environment to make their lives better somehow. Really? What makes a neighborhood bad? Trees? The ground? Buildings? Streets? None of those things are responsible for people's behavior. It is the people themselves. That is what makes bad situations bad and relocating them will not improve things. And neither will helping them learn a second language as long as their culture and thinking are not a part of the program.
But we are training our replacements. The 0.1% has decided they need more and everyone else needs less. Look where things are going. Everything we do in the US is destroying family and the family unit. There are people out there saying our children are not our children, that they belong to the state and are allowed to remain with us at their pleasure. This is no exaggeration. That we, as a nation, have disposed of our seniors into rotten, stinky 'retirement homes' speaks volumes of what has gone wrong. And now someone has decided to profit from it further? It is more than merely appalling. It's disgusting. And it's not how things are supposed to be. How are they supposed to be?
We have families. We have children and we love and teach them and they, in turn, love us. We get older and if we loved and taught them right, they will take care of us in our old age and so the cycle continues. But that's not what has been happening has it? The notion of the family has been all but destroyed. Birth rates in the first world all over are unsustainably low due to new societal norms which require everyone be career-minded caring nothing about family. Lately in the news there are even stories of women who are literally buying positive pregnancy tests in order to try to trap men. That's how far we've gone and that's just a mild example.
There is just so much wrong with the program I have gotten very worked up about it. It would be ideal if we could share language and culture to the betterment of all the world. But that's not what's driving all of that. They are training call center workers and other cheap labor. Quite literally, it's a program of training our replacements using our society's discarded seniors, taking advantage of their empty, lonely lives.
This is no troll. This is outrage over how bad things have gotten. I was born in the 60s. I know a better time. I grew up with a grandmother who taught my mother and me about values of the family and of good living. My post-depression-era grandmother had much to teach u
People succeeding and failing regardless of the language they speak? Are you seriously making that statement?
The most successful people are those that speak the lingua franca. (Yes, I know exactly what that means and where the term came from.) The Chinese are not a counter-example. When the Chinese became more unified, they did so through language unification and even simplification. The language has become very efficient. And English? Well, it's the lingua franca for now despite how bad it's getting.
I seriously don't know why I have been modded as flamebait. What have I said that's not true? It's far from pseudoscience when there have been many studies on the connection between language and intelligence which lead to this general understanding. It may be simplistic to say, but highly illustrative to the point, but languages that do not include a zero in their counting systems understandably have weaker math skills. That should come as no surprise to anyone. But as language and standards and styles of usage go, it's not hard to see where things break down and fail.
People are amazingly quick to bash, but amazingly reluctant to to offer up anything substantive to counter. (And once again, in case I wasn't clear, there is no 3000 year old Chinese language. Mandarin, in its current form doesn't go back that far. The oldest standard goes back what? Just over 600 years or so? So if you think you are right, please try again.
Cite them. The FBI would indicate otherwise.
Get used to it. The word which means "oriental" (east asian?) has become "asian" to the exclusion of all others who live and die in "asia." To say "United States of America" is simply inconvenient. Most of the world has accepted that to refer to America is to refer to the nation known as the United States of America. Any other means of expression which may be more accurate is simply too inconvenient. It does appear to strip all other American nations of their "Americanity" but that doesn't seem to harm Canada or Mexico's identity and Brazil certainly seems to stand on its own as well. (In fact, better in some ways... turns out Brazil didn't fall for many the banking scams which resulted in a suffering global economy... not very "American" of them was it?)
So yes. Be pedantic. You have identified a problem. Do you have a solution to offer?
Language is the encoding and structure of the mind. It is no mystery why certain groups consistently yield the best civilization while others yield human robots and others a great deal less.
Language is culture and it is thinking and it is belief. Some languages simply need to die for the betterment of humanity. I can't speak to these languages you have been learning, but I can speak to the advancement of some languages which better humanity. The Chinese have known this for a very long time. It is still yet to be heard as 'news' by most of the world.
Nothing can limit people more than the limits of their minds. Nothing. And not all languages are equal.
I have seen far too much senior exploitation. Any profits made by this enterprise should be surrendered to benefit the seniors being used. Not only are they being used. They are being used to further facilitate the downfall of the USA and its cultures and history.
I challenge anyone to find senior participants in this program who doesn't reek of piss and vomit and worse. That's not the "new deal" these seniors signed up for. And if we, as we grow older, have any hope to live our last years in dignity, we would to well to ensure our seniors do as well. It is a tradition of respect that will save us and nothing else.
Paying too much isn't paying too much. When "stupid government spending" is highlighted, the people are entertained by this as if it were some kind of joke. It's not. This is highlighting and obvious channel by which money is being moved. You're supposed to find out who the government is buying paperclips from, who made the decision and all that. You will find that giving the people's money out to these other people is the return on investment. So what's the investment? That's what we're supposed to be looking at.
That doesn't explain who or why the Obamacare site people were selected. We already know why, but it just highlights the corrupt process.
I love this! For once an argument for not patenting software tech. The claims of something stolen without evidence? That's probably actionable somehow.
I was thinking the very same thing. It would be nice if there was some sort of tech (which didn't invade privacy) could inhibit phone use in a moving vehicle. Problem is "what about passengers?" Too many others would be caught in such a net. I don't know what the answer should be. But I have been seeing it more and more often these days. I'm a "good driver." I don't actually use my phone while driving. Do I wish I could? YES! I just don't have the talent others seem to have. (My sons can text on an iPhone in their frikken pockets!) I know my limits and I observe them. I wish I could say the same for others. And that woman I saw yesterday putting on makeup on her way to work (or wherever)...? GEEZ!!!!
No?
Tyranny of statistics. Indeed. When looking at the rate of criminal, especially violent crimal activity, especially violent criminal activity resulting in death and dismemberment, the statistics point unfavorably in a particular group's favor.
I'm guessing everyone missed it when the Obama administration took over the census statistics -- the ones used by everyone for a variety of purposes including detecting voter fraud and all of that.
IQ might appear to be meaningless until you see the continuous results of all of this. When you search the term "model minority" you will find all sorts of hateful things. Largely among these are indication that while one ethnic group might seems to struggle due to environmental conditions, others seem to come through it all rather successfully by properly taking advantage of government programs intended to alleviate the problems of adverse environmental conditions.
And let's never talk about Liberia and the failure of every African nation not under western influence. First Zimbabwe and then S. Africa? The word hostile comes to mind and they certainly had their way to their own peril and suffering.
How much of a much bigger picture does anyone need to know before they come to realize what had been consitently stated for literally hundreds if not thousands of years?
And back to tyranny of statistics -- really. Is it tyrannical? Attempting to capture objective reality to better understand what is wrong is tyranny? Let's not forget the purpose of statistics. The opposite of stats is anecdotes and it thrills me to no end that the response to statistics here is anecdotes. (And it should trouble everyone who cites black successes to note that hearly none are 100% black. Tyson is part puerto-rican which is a mix of all sorts. So if anyone wants to pick anecdotal evidence, at least make it valid.)
I used to be on a completely different page than I am on today. I wasn't born or raised this way. I was well into my 20s and 30s before I began to see what's what in life. This, of course, also goes back to statitical tyranny -- trying to deny reality by denial of knowledge is and has always been the classic play by tyrants.
Disparate impact... it's going to be with us for a while. Might as well get used to it. Black people are generally less intelligent than others and it's our fault.