And with that, ive been up for >18 hours, the internet is workibg thanks to yours truly, i do appreciate that theres room in this world for people of your beliefs to exist, even if i detest them, good night.
Your only friend was making a point that the BLM riots were a product of genetics, and my response that it is a product of culture. Hence why i literally wrote
>genetics
Culture
Directly referencing the exact word i took issue with. Did i write
>race
Culture
In reference to whether race exists? No, no i did not, because race exists, obviously. At no other point have i made a collectivist arguement, yet ive had to write this 3 times now because you thought you could win some cheap points and keep doubling down.
Read my words, i never said race isnt real, i never said its a construct. I do not have any clue where you are getting this from. You are talking about someone else. You might be referring to the original post, not me, post an id otherwise.
Your point being? Does it take a genius to contribute to society in an industrial capacity? No, in fact the industrial revolution was led by blue collar workers, not academics with fancy degrees.
Great, but i personally dont know the first thing about carribean culture outside of some catchy calypso tunes. I can tell you about american culture, having spent a lot of time talking to a lot of black people, north, south, west coast, rich, poor. I can tell you a lot about white people too, having lived in the four corners of the US, i can tell you about muslim culture in the US, i can tell you about asian culture in the US. Ive been to south korea, singapore, the Philippines, thailand, dubai, bahrain, france, a few others, but i cant tell you anything about them because i havent truly taken the time to learn those cultures, france had nice landmarks and good food, skip bahrain, dubai was very clean.
Tbf, seems like he let rogan walk over him saying that bailing out the monopolies was good and that the federal government needs to be big to manage the country. Dont know where it went after that, I immediately turned my computer off to try to bleach my brain with TV.
Hey, i have a house, its a nice house, the walls arent straight, and the floor isnt flat, and the carpet has nails sticking up, and, well, ive compared it to a cardboard box myself 😤
I never said race is a social construct, read it back. I said "culture", in reference to the BLM riots were a product of "culture", not genetics.
What is your point? I cant self select into a job as an athlete for reasons along the same axis. Everyone has different predispositions based on nature and nurture, I go into the job where I create the highest value, in economics all actors are assumed to be rational and doing the same, man must act. Just because john doesnt get a job as a chemical engineer doesnt mean he cant be a productive member of society.
I have no idea where you got the carribean from, you said that, this is the very first time I am typing that word in this app. Having a homogenous culture is irrelevant, the spartans had a homogeneous culture and they ruined themselves, the nordic people had a homogenous culture and they destroyed themselves. Cultures that have survived have all had similar teachings, such as christianity, buddhism, islam; peace, service to a higher power, sacrificing for your children.
No, I reject collectivist arguements. To summarize my point from the beginning was that culture determines outcome, not genetics. You havent given a shred of evidence to the contrary, though you have led me down a rabbit hole of bullshit about race and IQ. People will self select into the jobs they are fit for, based on whatever predisposition they have, there are genetic and environmental components, to deny so would forsake the teachings of histories greatest economists and the most fundamental concepts of psychology. The fact that the vast majority of black people do not commit acts of violence proves this is a problem not with genetics (edge cases of severe sociopathy etc. need not apply) but of environment, otherwise this behavior would be expressed across the entire population.
If my typing has been erratic or ill-considered its been distraction, I keep the internet on and tonight was busier than most.
All of this and it still means nothing because people self select into the roles they are fit for regardless of race or sex. It also sounds rediculous to say a tall person needs a bigger brain to be as smart as a short person with a smaller brain, but if you say so. On the axis of peaceful/violent, I retract my agreement that there is any causation between IQ and violent behavior, just because you can see a correlation means little to me, IQ and behavior both take a hit from bad culture.
I am skeptical there could ever be a study for 2 or 3 that could account for every reasonable factor. Your only stated point in 4 is that there is a genetic component to IQ, of course, I never said there wasnt, I said culture defines people not race; culture influences IQ, if a kid doesn't study their IQs trend downwards, then back up when they do study; I said IQ leads to lower violence, not that it was the only factor, my dogs are pretty low IQ and wouldn't bite someone breaking into my house to kill me. 1 falls flat on the limitations of 4, the lack of point outside of brain size=IQ, and the limited view of intelligence it provides; women score higher in many cognitive tests despite having smaller brains on average.
There are genetic predispositions that can be roughly identified, but how those are expressed is up to the individual, under a culture of victimhood the same testosterone can lead to aggression as it leads to leadership or drive in a culture of responsibility. Regardless of how anyone wants to narrowly define intelligence or IQ or any of this, I stand by my original point that outcomes are cultural, I've never seen someone IRL coming from a good home become a menace. Will they self select into different fields or act different, on average? Sure, but that doesn't matter in the context that I care for, where people need to be different to perform different roles in society most efficiently, if everyone were like meeee then we'd all probably starve, we need people to have different dispositions, so long as they are expressed in a value add manner, influenced by culture.
Turning the lights off before you open the door helps, distracting them with an outdoor light too. The lights on the house are all warm yellow led to not attract flies, we have blue lights elsewhere to keep their attention, and the lights/TV are always off before I open the door.
Generally I think that term applies to many people that never held an office so several. For those that have held office, Ron Paul maybe, the way tribal politics would roll right off him was something to aspire to.
We are in agreement that higher IQ leads to lower crime. The question is why you think race or genetics has something to do with that, as opposed to culture.
I'll try it later when I find the time
I downgraded because the latest version broke my global feed, I may need to downgrade again I guess.
It may seem unlikely, and maybe it is a weird bubble being northern Virginia, but I assure you it is true. It does not influence my opinion on genetic heritage whatsoever, the results are driven by the pure ambition to take leadership roles, investing personal time in the subject matter, and having businesses on the side. I know several high achieving white people too, personally, but none of them are interested in going the lengths to find the same types of success, they just want a job with a nice paycheck.
I am still not understanding how you take the logical leap from "every county" to "its genetic" when our entire american culture has focused so heavily on propagandizing blacks into believing they should have a chip on their shoulder. Again, personal experience, those who ignore that programming seem to do just fine.
Why would stats ever matter, do you interact with people through the lense of statistics? I'm not sure how you look at statistical outcomes and come to conclusions about the cause, in my case I am basing what I say in regards to outcomes on what I'm able to observe. What is your basis for saying its genetic?
Jack has a lot of money and didn't give $5 million to the devs. Maybe that domain name will be worth more in the future, but I'd venture a guess that this platform hasn't been involved in $1 million in any way shape or form. If a rich person blew their stack on a domain name I'd be very disappointed, when the devs need it far more.