tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post984068625797690075..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: "Cucks"Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-2971567793200243442015-09-22T07:57:12.672-04:002015-09-22T07:57:12.672-04:00"It's not a 'race' that makes gre..."It's not a 'race' that makes great contributions to math, science, art, architecture, music, drama, philosophy, and literature, but gifted individuals who comprise an infinitesimal faction of the 'race' to which they belong. "<br /><br />Yes, but why do some races/population groups or whatever you want to call them produce geniuses at such higher rates? One-third of Nobel Prizes in the hard sciences go to Jews. This seems hard to explain without invoking heredity<br /><br />And groups seem to do equally well (or bad) regardless of the environment. Chinese do well wherever they are (US, UK, Latin America) and people of Sub-Saharan African descent poorly (Africa, US, Canada, Haiti).<br /><br />Also, groups that are intermediate (such as African-Americans, Hispanics and Cape Coloreds) have IQs in between the parent groups.<br /><br />A few years ago Charles Murray of The Bell Curve fame suggested that a study be done where genetic testing was used to find the percentage of white/African genes in black Americans and then see if it correlated to IQ. To make things fair, he asked people from all sides of the debate to participate. No one from the culture only side would join.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224280484542390176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-49305409308799585182015-09-20T17:12:24.416-04:002015-09-20T17:12:24.416-04:00On the diversity and shallowness of Trump's su...On the diversity and shallowness of Trump's support, see <a href="http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2015/09/trumps-shallow-anti-conservative-support.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br />I suspect that a lot of racists, people who rarely or never vote, people who aren't registered Republicans, etc. are active in online forums in support of Trump. It's not that they agree much with Trump. He just provides them with another platform. It's somewhat reminiscent of what happened with Ron Paul. Like Paul supporters, Trump supporters have an online presence disproportionate to polling and voting results. When writers for National Review put up posts critical of Trump, a highly disproportionate percentage of the response comes from Trump supporters, who are deeply irrational. Somebody will make an irrational comment in support of Trump, and it will get something like 15 or 30 up votes. Somebody else will make far more reasonable comments critical of Trump, and there will be maybe 2 or 5 up votes, if even that.<br /><br />I think part of what's going on is that any candidate perceived as being significantly successful in undermining mainstream party leadership will attract a lot of people who despise that leadership. They despise the leadership for a large variety of reasons, often inconsistent ones, and they may not intend to vote, may have never been a member of that party, etc. But they're united in their opposition to the party as it's traditionally existed.<br /><br />It also helps when somebody like Trump is such a blank slate. He's been so inconsistent over the years, both in his positions on the issues and in his party affiliation. He's also vague to an unusual degree about his latest stances on some of the issues. That makes him unusually appealing for people who want a malleable candidate or one they can support as a vehicle for registering a protest.<br /><br />People have a wide variety of reasons for supporting Trump. Qualities like name recognition and giving people an opportunity to register a protest vote can attract a wide range of people. Trump's more traditionally conservative supporters often act as if they somehow know that most or every Trump supporter has the same motivations they have for supporting Trump, but that's dubious. The Trump movement is highly diverse, inconsistent, and irrational. The sooner it goes away, the better.Jason Engwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17031011335190895123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-16067649275059646772015-09-20T14:58:54.039-04:002015-09-20T14:58:54.039-04:00There's certainly a valid sense in which the c...There's certainly a valid sense in which the cultural elites are just wrong in their characterization of "the noble primitives", as if aboriginal cultures, such as they were, innately possessed some sort of inherent goodness in quality. An unperturbed sanctity.<br /><br />But this is foolish, as can be easily demonstrated by the facts of history. The real issue, I think, is the contribution Judeo-Christianity made to the West in general, and to the United States in particular.<br /><br />This was a nation founded and peopled primarily by individuals and families who were fleeing religious persecution. That flavored the early part of our history.<br /><br />Those days are long gone, and we're apparently spiraling downward in a vortex of secular humanism run amok, but there's still a lot to appreciate about the USA, even as she continues to take on freezing, brackish seawater, and lists harder to the port side.<br /><br />Can she be righted? Time will tell.CRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03231394164372721485noreply@blogger.com