At some point in the future there will be more DNA polygenic IQ scores to show some 30-80% genetic influence on IQ, AND on impulse control, and likelihood of addiction (drugs or sex or gambling or ??), and other behavior & personality traits. Life ain't fair - "social justice" doesn't create a fair world, and can't. Whether it's 40, 50, or 60% is hardly worth arguing about - we can't change the genes.
We CAN change behavior. Most Blacks aren't usually criminals; nor are most Whites.
Look at the bottom 30% of white people - why are THEY poor? Ain't racism, it's bad behavior: not finishing high school, having a baby (or two?) before and outside of marriage, not holding a job for a year (not even McDonald's ???), getting arrested for crime, being an addict. Same behavior reasons most black folk who are poor are reasons for poor white folk.
But a "good guy" like the fictional Forrest Gump can be low IQ but still get a job (they don't show that much in film), and live a decent, no crime life. Marxist Freddie deBoer wrote "The Cult of Smart" - against the idea that IQ superiority makes one a better person. Most college grads, even me, sort of think intellectual superiority is equal to moral superiority. But it's not.
I suggest and support City, State, and National "service corps" jobs, so that everybody is offered a low paying job that they can do. Our gov't should be finding ways to give people work, work they consent to do, agree to do - and then they get paid. Maybe even more than the market value of the work.
Doing work, and accomplishing something, is the way to get self-respect. No gov't welfare can "give" self-respect, one must earn it by one's own standards. This applies to Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, Asians, and Jews - tho the lower IQ folk are more likely to take advantage of it than the college grads. We need laws, policies, and customs that make it normal and OK to be low IQ - but NOT commit crimes.
At some point in the future there will be more DNA polygenic IQ scores to show some 30-80% genetic influence on IQ, AND on impulse control, and likelihood of addiction (drugs or sex or gambling or ??), and other behavior & personality traits. Life ain't fair - "social justice" doesn't create a fair world, and can't. Whether it's 40, 50, or 60% is hardly worth arguing about - we can't change the genes.
We CAN change behavior. Most Blacks aren't usually criminals; nor are most Whites.
Look at the bottom 30% of white people - why are THEY poor? Ain't racism, it's bad behavior: not finishing high school, having a baby (or two?) before and outside of marriage, not holding a job for a year (not even McDonald's ???), getting arrested for crime, being an addict. Same behavior reasons most black folk who are poor are reasons for poor white folk.
But a "good guy" like the fictional Forrest Gump can be low IQ but still get a job (they don't show that much in film), and live a decent, no crime life. Marxist Freddie deBoer wrote "The Cult of Smart" - against the idea that IQ superiority makes one a better person. Most college grads, even me, sort of think intellectual superiority is equal to moral superiority. But it's not.
I suggest and support City, State, and National "service corps" jobs, so that everybody is offered a low paying job that they can do. Our gov't should be finding ways to give people work, work they consent to do, agree to do - and then they get paid. Maybe even more than the market value of the work.
Doing work, and accomplishing something, is the way to get self-respect. No gov't welfare can "give" self-respect, one must earn it by one's own standards. This applies to Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, Asians, and Jews - tho the lower IQ folk are more likely to take advantage of it than the college grads. We need laws, policies, and customs that make it normal and OK to be low IQ - but NOT commit crimes.