"blacks weren't allowed to create generational wealth; therefore we must give them special treatment"
This is their favorite argument nowadays. You'll hear it repeated often at every historical black college.
Generational wealth is almost always squandered within 3 generations.
Most whites aren't even born into generational wealth.
Blacks have had the opportunity to build generational wealth for at least 75 years, but really going back further even with segregation.
Blacks have enjoyed favoritism for about 50 years now, and what have they done with it? A small minority have taken advantage of it and have built huge fortunes. Many others have built a comfortable life. But the majority have totally squandered it.
They've done nothing to improve themselves and increase their earning potential. They do the bare minimum to keep a low paying job at best buy or wherever. They never tried hard in school. They never looked for a trade to learn.
Then they blame whitey for their lack of success. It's absurd.
Does it matter how many opportunities you give someone when his or her IQ is under 90?
Both leftists and conservatives once believed that equality under the law would normalize outcomes across racial demographics. When this didn’t happen, leftists created a new excuse for black dysfunction: systemic oppression. Discrimination had to be at the heart of it all because the only other explanation - inherent racial differences - was verboten.
On some level, leftists know that affirmative action (aka positive discrimination) is required to normalize outcomes for non-whites. Leftists just refuse to admit the why.
Meanwhile, classical liberals and conservatives are genuinely confused because meritocracy is so self-evidently the correct way.
Then you have the race realists who also recognize that certain racial demos need favoritism to succeed, and that such favoritism is one way ticket to eventual societal collapse. We can’t have unqualified surgeons and pilots and engineers guiding our civilization.
In the end, identity politics and communism are natural bedfellows. If every meritocracy sees non-whites on the bottom of the totem pole, then it only makes sense that non-whites would embrace alternative standards for success.
When Black Lives Matter tells you that black liberation is inseparable from Marxism, they are telling you the truth. If you want to defeat communism, you are necessarily going to have to take various “unpopular” identity politics positions. There’s no escaping it.
But I would imagine there are certain jobs that can be done by someone with a lower IQ? Also not putting them in a position they can’t handle would be a good policy. That does zero favors
Anybody below 80, we're basically putting on a society-wide puppet show to pretend their contributions matter, because to do otherwise would potentially foster violent resentment.
We have a difficult path ahead. How do we show due reverence to the value of all human life, when there is no dignity to be found in work? How do we make people whose jobs can be replaced by a server with a few graphics cards in it feel like their contributions are valuable?
If we don't find a way to do this, we're going to be failing our fellow man in a catastrophic way.
There used to be value in less skilled work. This societap unbalance has been deliberately destroyed by the government and corps working together to destroy our industrial base to turn us into a "service economy". When they brag about that term, what they're actually doing is laughing about making a perpetual underclass of corporate slaves by filling the economy with shit jobs.
There's always going to be a need for physically demanding jobs require some level of skill, and it doesn't take a very high IQ to do those jobs. Where lower IQ people tend to have problems is abstract thinking. Such a person might be perfectly capable of doing math required for their work because they do it over and over without having to apply the concepts to new things, even if they would never understand it in a more theoretical context. The problem is those jobs will always have shitty pay as long as we have hordes pouring across the Rio Grande looking for a handout.
"blacks weren't allowed to create generational wealth; therefore we must give them special treatment"
This is their favorite argument nowadays. You'll hear it repeated often at every historical black college.
Generational wealth is almost always squandered within 3 generations.
Most whites aren't even born into generational wealth.
Blacks have had the opportunity to build generational wealth for at least 75 years, but really going back further even with segregation.
Blacks have enjoyed favoritism for about 50 years now, and what have they done with it? A small minority have taken advantage of it and have built huge fortunes. Many others have built a comfortable life. But the majority have totally squandered it.
They've done nothing to improve themselves and increase their earning potential. They do the bare minimum to keep a low paying job at best buy or wherever. They never tried hard in school. They never looked for a trade to learn.
Then they blame whitey for their lack of success. It's absurd.
Does it matter how many opportunities you give someone when his or her IQ is under 90?
Both leftists and conservatives once believed that equality under the law would normalize outcomes across racial demographics. When this didn’t happen, leftists created a new excuse for black dysfunction: systemic oppression. Discrimination had to be at the heart of it all because the only other explanation - inherent racial differences - was verboten.
On some level, leftists know that affirmative action (aka positive discrimination) is required to normalize outcomes for non-whites. Leftists just refuse to admit the why.
Meanwhile, classical liberals and conservatives are genuinely confused because meritocracy is so self-evidently the correct way.
Then you have the race realists who also recognize that certain racial demos need favoritism to succeed, and that such favoritism is one way ticket to eventual societal collapse. We can’t have unqualified surgeons and pilots and engineers guiding our civilization.
In the end, identity politics and communism are natural bedfellows. If every meritocracy sees non-whites on the bottom of the totem pole, then it only makes sense that non-whites would embrace alternative standards for success.
When Black Lives Matter tells you that black liberation is inseparable from Marxism, they are telling you the truth. If you want to defeat communism, you are necessarily going to have to take various “unpopular” identity politics positions. There’s no escaping it.
But I would imagine there are certain jobs that can be done by someone with a lower IQ? Also not putting them in a position they can’t handle would be a good policy. That does zero favors
Anybody below 80, we're basically putting on a society-wide puppet show to pretend their contributions matter, because to do otherwise would potentially foster violent resentment.
We have a difficult path ahead. How do we show due reverence to the value of all human life, when there is no dignity to be found in work? How do we make people whose jobs can be replaced by a server with a few graphics cards in it feel like their contributions are valuable?
If we don't find a way to do this, we're going to be failing our fellow man in a catastrophic way.
There used to be value in less skilled work. This societap unbalance has been deliberately destroyed by the government and corps working together to destroy our industrial base to turn us into a "service economy". When they brag about that term, what they're actually doing is laughing about making a perpetual underclass of corporate slaves by filling the economy with shit jobs.
There's always going to be a need for physically demanding jobs require some level of skill, and it doesn't take a very high IQ to do those jobs. Where lower IQ people tend to have problems is abstract thinking. Such a person might be perfectly capable of doing math required for their work because they do it over and over without having to apply the concepts to new things, even if they would never understand it in a more theoretical context. The problem is those jobs will always have shitty pay as long as we have hordes pouring across the Rio Grande looking for a handout.