hnpc123

Sad that you're being downvoted (and probably flagged) for expressing a reasonable opinion.

Hacker News has been a left-wing echo chamber ever since the crazies started flowing in during that period when every story on the front page was NSA related.

Now it's nearly impossible to have a reasoned discussion on any non-technical issue without SJWs using the voting system here to silence dissent.

Absolutely nowhere have I advocated for white supremacy. Any sort of racial supremacy is sick and irrational.

It is. That doesn't make it incorrect. Additionally I'm not arguing from a position of advocacy for white supremacy in the slightest.

This would be another explanation for why African Americans (and Africans) are doing so poorly.

It's a good argument and so it weakens the likelihood of my argument but it doesn't actually refute or argue directly against my points.

I think it's perfectly reasonable to place a large emphasis on the IQ distribution when trying to explain population trends. It's not laziness or cowardice in the slightest in the same way placing a large emphasis on BMI distribution is legitimate when trying to explain the prevalence of heart disease and other lifestyle diseases among populations.

I don't have a plan of action. If my argument is sound and we accept it then the implications for what that would mean for public policy and society are not exactly nice or easy to think about.

I do know that we predicate school funding and a lot of other education/social policies on "bridging the achievement gap" and maybe this should be re-examined.

You are right that my argument is as strong as the legitimacy of modern IQ tests.

For exactly the reason you stated the rate of black-on-white murder is much higher than the reverse.

If blacks are more likely to come into contact with whites than the reverse then it would follow that blacks are more likely to be killed by whites than whites are by blacks.

I looked through the transcript of that talk and could not find a reference to that statistic.

I was prompted to actually look into this claim because the incidence of white-on-black murder is extremely low and I imagine the incidence of white-on-black murder where the victim is a woman is even lower. I would be surprised if there were even 5 such cases in the past 50 years in Alabama.

Do you have any sources? Or can you post the relevant snippet from that talk?

My only real life experience with a "drug bust" was at a music festival where a cop came up to my friend and I, asked for our bag of weed, dumped it out, and then asked where we got it. We didn't tell him where we got it and I then thanked him for not issuing us a citation.

I'm white and my friend is Mexican.

The title was changed and is now more opaque and less descriptive.

You know, at least Europeans are consistent in their moral grandstanding.

For sure mass immigration from illiberal non-Western societies will cause damage to the cultural fabric of Europe and cause strain on the welfare systems, but at least you consistently apply your moral standards to yourself and not just America and Israel when it's convenient. That is admirable.

So what you're saying is that Arabs are too simple and stupid to make their own decisions about what they want and what actions to take.

Must be white people driving the events in Syria.

I'm surprised there are any homeless people in the Netherlands.

By what process are you going to determine what constitutes "destroying the lives of others"?

It would be interesting to hear what other types of property are ok to destroy in the name of social justice.