I don't know about Murray's new book itself, but the article is a mixed bag. The discussion of IQ is fine, but then there is stuff like this.
abandonment of the American principle of a meritocracy and treatment of citizens as individuals, not members of a race, ethnic group, or tribe.
That's only been an "American principle" since the 1960s, if ever. See the Naturalization Act of 1790. It's revisionist history to say that America was a "color blind" meritocracy at its founding. This is a faction of liberals trying to appeal to American traditions that never existed.
Their vision for America will result in a multiracial society with an East-Asian upper class, white middle class, and black and mestizo lower classes. How do you get blacks and mestizos to accept "their place" in the resultant hierarchy? I've yet to see anyone who advocates for "IQ nationalism" offer any worthwhile insight as to how to get there. Also, how do you stop the elites from mobilizing the lower class against the middle class? This is already happening with BLM and has a long history with other race riots.
I also question what all this "meritocracy" is supposed to accomplish. What's the point of such a diverse nation? If I wanted to be ruled by Asians, I'd move to China or Japan.
It's revisionist history to say that America was a "color blind" meritocracy at its founding.
You can pretend Pennsylvania colony didn't exist all you like, but it did. It's not our fault all the rest of the colonies were founded by sects that thought it was righteous to be a prig.
There is a forgotten history to this country, that a large number of people came here GENUINELY believing that all people were equals, and had been believing that since the English civil war.
At the time of founding a large minority of the population of America were Quakers. By the Civil War, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Iowa were Quaker majority states.
The only reason we're forgotten is because the Civil War wiped us out. Huge numbers of Quaker men (paradoxically) enlisted in the early "Union Generals are shit" phase of the war, and continued enlisting in the "Grant gets people killed" phase of the war.
The survivors mostly converted to Lutheranism or Methodism because they were sending all the Union Army chaplains.
I don't know about Murray's new book itself, but the article is a mixed bag. The discussion of IQ is fine, but then there is stuff like this.
That's only been an "American principle" since the 1960s, if ever. See the Naturalization Act of 1790. It's revisionist history to say that America was a "color blind" meritocracy at its founding. This is a faction of liberals trying to appeal to American traditions that never existed.
Their vision for America will result in a multiracial society with an East-Asian upper class, white middle class, and black and mestizo lower classes. How do you get blacks and mestizos to accept "their place" in the resultant hierarchy? I've yet to see anyone who advocates for "IQ nationalism" offer any worthwhile insight as to how to get there. Also, how do you stop the elites from mobilizing the lower class against the middle class? This is already happening with BLM and has a long history with other race riots.
I also question what all this "meritocracy" is supposed to accomplish. What's the point of such a diverse nation? If I wanted to be ruled by Asians, I'd move to China or Japan.
You can pretend Pennsylvania colony didn't exist all you like, but it did. It's not our fault all the rest of the colonies were founded by sects that thought it was righteous to be a prig.
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Quakers.
There is a forgotten history to this country, that a large number of people came here GENUINELY believing that all people were equals, and had been believing that since the English civil war.
At the time of founding a large minority of the population of America were Quakers. By the Civil War, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Iowa were Quaker majority states.
The only reason we're forgotten is because the Civil War wiped us out. Huge numbers of Quaker men (paradoxically) enlisted in the early "Union Generals are shit" phase of the war, and continued enlisting in the "Grant gets people killed" phase of the war.
The survivors mostly converted to Lutheranism or Methodism because they were sending all the Union Army chaplains.
I know about Quakers, but Pennsylvania still had slavery and didn't have racial equality.