IQ Wars: For Whom the Bell Curves. By Fred Reed.
The hostility to Jews is grinding, bitter, and implacable … Why the rancor and, in particular, why the belief in the unlimited power of Jews? …
The bitterness, I noted, resemble the hostility of many blacks toward whites. Blacks, at the bottom of society, apparently need someone to blame. Similarly the commenters appeared to resent the Jews for being much more successful that house-and-garden-variety whites (Hagvacas). Might the causes be the same? …
I offer three helpful rules of racial resentment in gratitude for which an astounded world will doubtless send me their children’s college funds:
- First, prosperity tends to be proportional to intelligence over statistically meaningful populations.
- Second, resentment is proportional to IQ difference.
- Third, equal differences of IQ produce equal differences of outcome.
These rules do not apply exclusively to Jews. South African whites, and in Malaysia and Indonesia, the Chinese (who have a large IQ advantage over the natives) are detested for owning things and having money. In Indonesia they have been attacked by mobs and killed. In general, a rich, powerful, and distinguishable group will draw hostility.
Psychometrists, who study intelligence, almost universally rank the races in order of intelligence as Ashkenazi Jews, East Asians, Whites, Latinos, and blacks. (Note that income, educational level, and academic performance closely track this ordering.) The psychometrists are mostly white men so are unlikely to be cooking the numbers against themselves.
Among IQists, it is doctrine that blacks have a mean IQ of 85, fifteen points below the Hagvaca average of 100, and this is held to account for the lack of success of blacks. Searching the literature reveals authorities asserting that Ashkenazi Jews have a mean IQ of 115, as far above ordinary or Hagvaca whites as whites are above blacks. Eureka, and all. Equal differences of input produce equal differences of outcome. N’est-ce pas?
Hagvacas don’t want, and Jews know better than, to emphasize this. Yet there it is. …
The disproportion in achievement is there. Neither Jews (wisely) nor Hagvacas want to recognize the fairly obvious reason. …
For centuries Jews have been charged with greed, deviousness, arrogance, clannishness, selfishness, generic horribleness, and sacrificing Christian children. In my experience Jews have been no more devious and horrible than everyone else …
Are Jews obsessed by money? Or just better at making it? Dentists, cardiac surgeons, IT managers, semiconductor designers and hedge-fund maestros make more than taxi drivers, midlevel bureaucrats, and people who sell fan belts at the NAPA outlet. …
The disproportion in achievement is stark. Of the four founding titans of the internet, Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, and Bill Gates of Microsoft, two are Jews. For that matter, of the three most influential thinkers of the nineteenth century, Freud, Marx, and Darwin, two were Jews. Check the personnel list for the Manhattan Project (for readers born after the end of education, this was the project that made the atomic bomb.) It reads like a Yeshiva yearbook. The fathers of modern physics were heavily Jewish — Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, Max Born, Wolfgang Pauli, Hans Bethe, Robert Oppenheimer, Albert Michelson, on and on. More recently, figures like John von Neuman and Feynman. Similar lists could be made in publishing, journalism, finance, and film. …
Why the prominence? Does conspiracy account for this, or sheer brains? Fred’s Third Principle says never blame sneakiness when intelligence is both a sufficient and necessary explanation. Were the Jews who started the big internet outfits scheming and evil, or were they, like Gates, smart kids with good ideas and the push and moxie to make them work?
The Jewish influence on history borders on the eerie. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Jesus, Joseph, Mary were Jews. What explains this? Christians say that the Jews were chosen by God. I suspect they chose themselves and wrote a best-selling book about it, but that is a very Jewish approach. …
Of course members of a small, superior, self-aware group disliked by the surrounding population are going to help each other, this being regarded as group sneakiness. But how do you sneakily come up with General Relativity? Or sneakily win a world chess championship? …
A Jewish friend, a former Harvard prof, assures me that young Jewish women carry a marry-a-doctor gene, which doubtless contributes to evolutionary proliferation of intelligence. (See? I can do silly pop-evo with the best of them).
How’s that for politically incorrect but true?
The woke hate merit. The woke revolution is a revolution of the mediocre. No wonder they hate the very mention of IQ.
Systemic racism? Bah.
