I would love to duplicate this school in all the cities you mentioned, but not right now. I know there are a lot of Black kids from the Caribbean Islands and they seem to do better. I have read Ian Rowe's book on Agency and the Board and Principal are now reading it. The reason I brought up Ian is because his family is from the Islands as well. I have also read that many Caribbean Islanders do very well in the U.S. I find that curious.
Quite the contrary. The IQ tests are valid indicators of differential performance between designated populations. What the tests don’t claim to show are the myriad reasons for different possible outcomes. Even Murray couches his inferences in uncertainty as to cause, unlike your cocksure self who is ready to close the not unimportant book on that critical chapter of humanity.
Back to an earlier discussion on black criminality, I have a sneaking suspicion that you might have, let’s say, a bias also fueled by a genetic underpinning as to cause, with only minor downstream consideration to environmental factors.
Yes, we can be certain about age, and the other immutable empirical characteristics you list. But, as I tried to explain in my last reply, there are certain features of the mind that are poorly understood as to their genesis and manifestation. I’m an assigned at birth male, if I say I feel as strongly as anyone can feel that I’m a female in the very essence of my subject feelings, you can rightly point out that I have the genotype , XY, and the typical male phenotype. And I would agree with you. But, that doesn’t negate my perception that my brain’s expressive manifestation is aligned with the belief and socially accepted behavioral repertoire of a female sense of being.
Why do you think people have a difficult time answering the question, what is a woman or a man? It’s a nebulous bio-socio construct that we take for granted but difficult to explain. Whether it’s just a form of mental pathology or a biological miswiring of the brain has yet to be determined. As how these individuals should be incorporated into society is another matter.
This is/was/will be a great conversation, end to end from Glenn’s trumpet. I worry about the same as I start my publishing endeavors. I am saddened by what I hear from the front lines but also heartened that it is still a open(-ish) conversation. I am not planning on being a “controversial” publisher, but that seems essentially irrelevant a fact as the unpublished criteria rules of all things top-down economically relevant.
I too am concerned about the immediate safety of the citizenry but, that doesn’t mean we should be short sighted about ending the self perpetuating syndrome.
If you do the crime you do the time, 100%.
But, we also must follow the developmental paradigm of Glenn to rectify the faults of the past by encouraging agency and responsibility via early developmental intervention in education, mentoring and adequate health and nutritional services.
Is it possible to feel being a male or female, in the wrong body? Are there genetic, physiological, and hormonal (intrauterine environmental) factors that can masculinize or feminize the developing brain of the embryo or fetus ? We don’t know but there is convincing statistical corollary evidence to suggest so. So, how does this effect one’s sense of self or even sexual attraction or how it specifically manifests itself in any singular person. Much of what you say is chillingly similar to the past reactions to homosexuality being a pathology.
I’m a cis male. If I woke up in a woman’s body I would not deal with it by taking hormones or surgical mutilation in order to conform to my prior body. I would adapt to the circumstance. But, I concede I’ve already had the benefit of a well balanced sexual/gender identity of myself. I did not have unresolved ambiguous angst from the get go.
No doubt there are mentally ill and psychosocially influenced individuals who have glommed on to the trans issue. How we separate them from true cases of those that have “honest” sexual dysphoria may be nigh impossible in many cases and perhaps moot in the case of adults. (I recognize the problem with children - another debate).
The political and social issues, I admit, are extremely problematic and will require good will and compromise on both sides of the issue concerning cis women’s rights and not allowing the radical trans rights extremists from wagging the dog.
Above link goes to an excellent March article posted on the City Journal site by Leor Sapir on transgender kids, their mental illnesses, and risk of suicide.
What makes this kind of censorship by YouTube of sincere, thoughtful, reasoned speech, even more galling is they make it very easy for people to post videos in which the poster or their associates literally torture terrified, defenseless animals to death for clicks, titillation, and monetization. And YouTube shares in the profits from those torture views and clicks. Often, not just psychos and sadists but actual criminal gangs, cartels, terrorists are involved in systemically staging, recording, and posting videos of said members committing actual torture of actual living beings, not only because they are among the vile people on the planet, but also because they know there are enough sick people out there that their actual commission and posting of violent crimes can make real money on a platform with such wide reach. In terms of “speech” this is in my view almost exactly like allowing equally violent psychos to actually torture children to death on video and post it for their own sick thrill and for the enjoyment of other sadists and sick people who find extreme infliction of terror and suffering to be titillating. In other words, these are among the most despicable violent crimes anyone can commit, they have zero meaningful speech content, and they deserve zero platforming let alone protection, let alone the enabling incentivization YouTube provides such people by creating such an easy means to post and share in the profits from committing extreme cruelty on the most innocent among us. But, try flagging such videos or looking for clear and relevant ways to describe and submit a complaint and you’re largely out of luck. YouTube makes it vastly easier to report and ban someone from their platform for simply departing in a reasonable and thoughtful way from the most recent trans or racialist orthodoxy than they do to flag and be able to clearly report why you’re complaining about the extremely graphic commission of actual torture of actual living beings and have it taken down, let alone get them to share any concern for how they’re supporting and monetizing such videos.
The central challenge as I see it is how those operating under a classic liberal mode in the public square are confronted by empowered illiberalism.
Those who cherish Enlightenment values are going to have empower themselves institutionally, and that will mean dropping out of venues where illiberalism prevails. They need to find or build new platforms that will, over time, outshine the domains of enforced thinking.
In short, Youtube doesn't deserve us. Substack and Patreon need to grow. Use Youtube to leave teasers to redirect traffic to where civil society actually thrives.
Well, Glenn, perhaps it's time to change the latter portion of "history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes" to "but it echoes."
As those of us, who remember the days when broadcast television censorship was federally controlled, now confront the reality of centrally managed electronic media, we can hear echoes of earlier days.
Remember when we were young and learned how the US Postal Service had been ordered to refuse delivery of newspapers critical of government policy?
USPS obeyed, because how could they not?
How many newspapers and newsletters ceased publishing?
What, do you think, were the commonalities with today?
Personally, "I'll take what is income distribution flux for one hundred dollars, Alex," but your mileage may vary.
Well, there you’ve said it; blacks are intellectually inferior and more prone to violence and criminality - on average - of course.
I wish I had a dollar for every minority thus labeled.
Richard,
I would love to duplicate this school in all the cities you mentioned, but not right now. I know there are a lot of Black kids from the Caribbean Islands and they seem to do better. I have read Ian Rowe's book on Agency and the Board and Principal are now reading it. The reason I brought up Ian is because his family is from the Islands as well. I have also read that many Caribbean Islanders do very well in the U.S. I find that curious.
Quite the contrary. The IQ tests are valid indicators of differential performance between designated populations. What the tests don’t claim to show are the myriad reasons for different possible outcomes. Even Murray couches his inferences in uncertainty as to cause, unlike your cocksure self who is ready to close the not unimportant book on that critical chapter of humanity.
Back to an earlier discussion on black criminality, I have a sneaking suspicion that you might have, let’s say, a bias also fueled by a genetic underpinning as to cause, with only minor downstream consideration to environmental factors.
Yes, we can be certain about age, and the other immutable empirical characteristics you list. But, as I tried to explain in my last reply, there are certain features of the mind that are poorly understood as to their genesis and manifestation. I’m an assigned at birth male, if I say I feel as strongly as anyone can feel that I’m a female in the very essence of my subject feelings, you can rightly point out that I have the genotype , XY, and the typical male phenotype. And I would agree with you. But, that doesn’t negate my perception that my brain’s expressive manifestation is aligned with the belief and socially accepted behavioral repertoire of a female sense of being.
Why do you think people have a difficult time answering the question, what is a woman or a man? It’s a nebulous bio-socio construct that we take for granted but difficult to explain. Whether it’s just a form of mental pathology or a biological miswiring of the brain has yet to be determined. As how these individuals should be incorporated into society is another matter.
Glenn and John must be touching some nerves. In the words of Colonel Nathan Jessop, “TRUTH? YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH!”
This is/was/will be a great conversation, end to end from Glenn’s trumpet. I worry about the same as I start my publishing endeavors. I am saddened by what I hear from the front lines but also heartened that it is still a open(-ish) conversation. I am not planning on being a “controversial” publisher, but that seems essentially irrelevant a fact as the unpublished criteria rules of all things top-down economically relevant.
How about a lash with a cane pole for every mile over the speed limit?
I too am concerned about the immediate safety of the citizenry but, that doesn’t mean we should be short sighted about ending the self perpetuating syndrome.
If you do the crime you do the time, 100%.
But, we also must follow the developmental paradigm of Glenn to rectify the faults of the past by encouraging agency and responsibility via early developmental intervention in education, mentoring and adequate health and nutritional services.
Is it possible to feel being a male or female, in the wrong body? Are there genetic, physiological, and hormonal (intrauterine environmental) factors that can masculinize or feminize the developing brain of the embryo or fetus ? We don’t know but there is convincing statistical corollary evidence to suggest so. So, how does this effect one’s sense of self or even sexual attraction or how it specifically manifests itself in any singular person. Much of what you say is chillingly similar to the past reactions to homosexuality being a pathology.
I’m a cis male. If I woke up in a woman’s body I would not deal with it by taking hormones or surgical mutilation in order to conform to my prior body. I would adapt to the circumstance. But, I concede I’ve already had the benefit of a well balanced sexual/gender identity of myself. I did not have unresolved ambiguous angst from the get go.
No doubt there are mentally ill and psychosocially influenced individuals who have glommed on to the trans issue. How we separate them from true cases of those that have “honest” sexual dysphoria may be nigh impossible in many cases and perhaps moot in the case of adults. (I recognize the problem with children - another debate).
The political and social issues, I admit, are extremely problematic and will require good will and compromise on both sides of the issue concerning cis women’s rights and not allowing the radical trans rights extremists from wagging the dog.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/reckless-and-irresponsible
Above link goes to an excellent March article posted on the City Journal site by Leor Sapir on transgender kids, their mental illnesses, and risk of suicide.
What makes this kind of censorship by YouTube of sincere, thoughtful, reasoned speech, even more galling is they make it very easy for people to post videos in which the poster or their associates literally torture terrified, defenseless animals to death for clicks, titillation, and monetization. And YouTube shares in the profits from those torture views and clicks. Often, not just psychos and sadists but actual criminal gangs, cartels, terrorists are involved in systemically staging, recording, and posting videos of said members committing actual torture of actual living beings, not only because they are among the vile people on the planet, but also because they know there are enough sick people out there that their actual commission and posting of violent crimes can make real money on a platform with such wide reach. In terms of “speech” this is in my view almost exactly like allowing equally violent psychos to actually torture children to death on video and post it for their own sick thrill and for the enjoyment of other sadists and sick people who find extreme infliction of terror and suffering to be titillating. In other words, these are among the most despicable violent crimes anyone can commit, they have zero meaningful speech content, and they deserve zero platforming let alone protection, let alone the enabling incentivization YouTube provides such people by creating such an easy means to post and share in the profits from committing extreme cruelty on the most innocent among us. But, try flagging such videos or looking for clear and relevant ways to describe and submit a complaint and you’re largely out of luck. YouTube makes it vastly easier to report and ban someone from their platform for simply departing in a reasonable and thoughtful way from the most recent trans or racialist orthodoxy than they do to flag and be able to clearly report why you’re complaining about the extremely graphic commission of actual torture of actual living beings and have it taken down, let alone get them to share any concern for how they’re supporting and monetizing such videos.
The central challenge as I see it is how those operating under a classic liberal mode in the public square are confronted by empowered illiberalism.
Those who cherish Enlightenment values are going to have empower themselves institutionally, and that will mean dropping out of venues where illiberalism prevails. They need to find or build new platforms that will, over time, outshine the domains of enforced thinking.
In short, Youtube doesn't deserve us. Substack and Patreon need to grow. Use Youtube to leave teasers to redirect traffic to where civil society actually thrives.
Rumble was created because YouTube is Orwellian.
What goes around eventually comes around.
It's not nice to fool Mother Nature.
Well, Glenn, perhaps it's time to change the latter portion of "history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes" to "but it echoes."
As those of us, who remember the days when broadcast television censorship was federally controlled, now confront the reality of centrally managed electronic media, we can hear echoes of earlier days.
Remember when we were young and learned how the US Postal Service had been ordered to refuse delivery of newspapers critical of government policy?
USPS obeyed, because how could they not?
How many newspapers and newsletters ceased publishing?
What, do you think, were the commonalities with today?
Personally, "I'll take what is income distribution flux for one hundred dollars, Alex," but your mileage may vary.
This attempt to compel orthodoxy with regard to believing that trans =/= mental illness will be the thing that brings about Trump 2.0