"The systemic racism position leaves no room for solutions that will make black lives better" - Sure it does! I bet some black people feel great thinking of themselves as the noble and innocent oppressed victims of history. I bet it feels great to not be subjected to law enforcement or prosecution for flash-mobbing and looting stores. I bet it feels good to receive places at good colleges or in large corporations or in public employment without doing the work necessary to actually measure up to the normal standards. I bet it feels good to have your grievances heard and solicitously kow-towed to.
I know that Prof. Loury and Prof. McWhorter say that they feel condescended to by all of the above. But frankly, they're weird by anyone's standard. I'd bet that none of us in the comment section are within a standard deviation of either of their IQs, and Prof. McWhorter by his own repeated admission on the podcast is rather more arrogant than the norm. It's not reasonable to expect their reactions to generalize across *any* population.
Whatever the feelings that believing in systemic racism solicits, the results of attempts to address systemic racism do nothing to solve the problems that poor black people face. As for your comments about Glenn and John and IQ, you are speaking only for yourself.
I mean, I personally am much stupider than Prof. Loury based on his ability to do mind-boggling math and my dull C+ in high school algebra 2 as my terminal math accomplishment.
As for Prof. McWhorter, his writing ability far exceeds mine, and I would regard anyone who could keep all those languages he knows straight in their head as significantly smarter than me.
Kudos to you if you think you're in their league, though. I hope you are doing great things for your family, neighborhood, and community.
I am a big fan of Glenn and John. I admire what they are doing. What matters is knowledge and understanding, which is facilitated by a certain level of IQ but depends in so much more. Too few people understand this.
As for “great things”, my Ph.D. is in chemistry and I was VP of R&D for a global company. I can hold my own with almost anyone. I do not listen to Glenn and John because I worship them, I listen because I can learn from them. I believe I could reciprocate on a number of subjects, but I learn from them in their areas of expertise. It’s how we expand our understanding of the world and universe we occupy.
"The systemic racism position leaves no room for solutions that will make black lives better" - Sure it does! I bet some black people feel great thinking of themselves as the noble and innocent oppressed victims of history. I bet it feels great to not be subjected to law enforcement or prosecution for flash-mobbing and looting stores. I bet it feels good to receive places at good colleges or in large corporations or in public employment without doing the work necessary to actually measure up to the normal standards. I bet it feels good to have your grievances heard and solicitously kow-towed to.
I know that Prof. Loury and Prof. McWhorter say that they feel condescended to by all of the above. But frankly, they're weird by anyone's standard. I'd bet that none of us in the comment section are within a standard deviation of either of their IQs, and Prof. McWhorter by his own repeated admission on the podcast is rather more arrogant than the norm. It's not reasonable to expect their reactions to generalize across *any* population.
Whatever the feelings that believing in systemic racism solicits, the results of attempts to address systemic racism do nothing to solve the problems that poor black people face. As for your comments about Glenn and John and IQ, you are speaking only for yourself.
I mean, I personally am much stupider than Prof. Loury based on his ability to do mind-boggling math and my dull C+ in high school algebra 2 as my terminal math accomplishment.
As for Prof. McWhorter, his writing ability far exceeds mine, and I would regard anyone who could keep all those languages he knows straight in their head as significantly smarter than me.
Kudos to you if you think you're in their league, though. I hope you are doing great things for your family, neighborhood, and community.
I am a big fan of Glenn and John. I admire what they are doing. What matters is knowledge and understanding, which is facilitated by a certain level of IQ but depends in so much more. Too few people understand this.
As for “great things”, my Ph.D. is in chemistry and I was VP of R&D for a global company. I can hold my own with almost anyone. I do not listen to Glenn and John because I worship them, I listen because I can learn from them. I believe I could reciprocate on a number of subjects, but I learn from them in their areas of expertise. It’s how we expand our understanding of the world and universe we occupy.