On this final night of Hanukkah, we discuss whether the Jews are smart, are they a race, and are they ethnically nepotistic? Brett Stevens of the New York Times recently stirred up controversy by claiming that Jews as a race are highly intelligent and possess a bracing originality and high-minded purpose. Or did the ancients have it right in viewing the Jews as conformist, obstinate, and dogmatic? We ll find out on this week's episode of The McSpencer Group.
00:02:30.480Speaking of Christmas time, they are, I guess, the ultimate progenitors of the celebration of the birth of Christ.
00:02:40.520But, so, it was either yesterday or the day before that New York Times op-ed columnist, Brett Stevens, who is a former Wall Street Journal neocon op-ed columnist.
00:02:57.080And I believe he was at the Jerusalem Post before that, or a similar Jewish newspaper like that.
00:03:08.340And he waded into the troubled waters of HPD and IQ and race realism, you could say.
00:03:19.400Just as a little bit of background, I have definitely seen this before.
00:03:25.560So, there is a huge literature on human biodiversity writ large, we could say, literature that, Ed, you've contributed to, literature that you are a master of as well.
00:03:40.660But this literature, unlike, say, literature on climate science or other things, very rarely reaches the mainstream.
00:03:50.520Whereas, we're not allowed to question global warming, you know, and we're told, at least, that there is this massive scientific consensus on this subject.
00:04:00.900When it comes to race, we're in a bit of an opposite situation, a bizarro world, where there actually is a tremendous amount of reasons to believe in race realism or IQ realism, heritability writ large.
00:04:23.600But we're actually told by mainstream sources over and over again that no one actually believes this and it's all wrong.
00:04:32.900Or if they're a little bit smarter, they'll go in and deconstruct it and things like that.
00:04:39.740But every few years, some mainstream journalist wades into these troubled waters and usually gets smacked down on the blogs and on Twitter, etc., for doing so.
00:04:54.200And the ones who have done this, I've noticed a trend.
00:04:57.560Brett Stevens is the latest, but Andrew Sullivan has done this multiple times.
00:05:01.980While Andrew Sullivan was the editor of the Atlantic Monthly, I believe he published an issue dedicated to the bell curve in the 90s, he has often brought up these issues of IQ realism, not necessarily race realism.
00:05:17.500Probably eight or ten years ago, I can't remember, William Salatin at Slate or Solano, I always mix those two up, also did a kind of race realism-ish article and he was smacked down for it and actually apologized.
00:05:37.140So, I've noticed this trend where conservatives won't talk about this stuff, at least mainstream conservatives won't.
00:05:43.580But you'll occasionally get the brave liberal centrist who has bona fides on his side as cover.
00:05:53.400So, it's, I'm a Jewish neoconservative, I'm a gay conservative who voted for Obama in the case of Andrew Sullivan, or I'm a centrist liberal in the case of Salatin.
00:06:04.360And so, they kind of say, I'm the one who can talk about this, not those evil racists.
00:06:10.140And usually there is a big firestorm and then it kind of dies down.
00:06:15.200Maybe there's an apology, maybe a retraction.
00:06:18.180But each of those people have maintained their careers, it's worth pointing out.
00:06:23.280Whereas, and Charles Murray has maintained his career in neocon think tanks.
00:06:28.160But certainly others who pursue these ideas are cast to the margins or sometimes can have their careers ruined.
00:06:37.260Sam Francis is, who had a mainstream career and was pushed out to the margins, is an excellent example of that.
00:06:44.980Of course, he was a right-winger who was taking up many of these issues.
00:06:48.480But Brett Stevens has done it, and he's done it in a kind of slippery way in the New York Times.
00:06:54.560He's basically said that, yes, Ashkenazi Jews have higher IQs on average.
00:07:07.960So what I wanted to do here, I think we can go in and talk about the article itself a little bit.
00:07:15.760But to be honest, I don't think the article is terribly interesting.
00:07:19.100I do want to jump on some of Brett Stevens' assertions, which I find kind of revealing, maybe in an ironic way.
00:07:28.060But I thought it would be a better idea to talk about the whole issue of IQ heritability, you could say race realism, although it's a little bit different in this case, and also just Jewish genius and Jewish success, Jewish IQ, and all those issues.
00:07:46.880So kind of like a big backgrounder for this debate and reasons why we should take these ideas seriously.
00:07:56.220So, Ed, I think I'll just let you run with it from the start.
00:08:02.200Is it true that those Jews are just so smart?
00:08:10.880When we're talking about Ashkenazi Jews, this is the case.
00:08:15.760There are some people that I've read on the alt-right or whatever that have cast doubt on this.
00:08:21.120But even in the 1930s, there were IQ tests that were published in Germany, which showed that Jewish people had considerably higher, Ashkenazi Jewish people, considerably higher average IQ than Germans.
00:09:05.080But one of the things that has been found is that – I mean, Richard Lynn has done a good book on this called The Chosen People.
00:09:11.060And in every society where there have been – so in the three kinds of Jew, the Mishraim, the Sephardi, and the Ashkenazi, they all have higher IQs than their host societies.
00:09:22.880So the average IQ of Western societies is around about 100.
00:09:27.340The average IQ of the Ashkenazi is about 112.
00:09:30.160The average IQ of Spain and Portugal and Southeast Europe is maybe around about 90, 95.
00:09:36.360Average IQ of the Sephardi is about 105.
00:10:43.620I mean, it's – so it's about – it's Trump, Pence, maybe one or two other people that are not Jewish.
00:10:49.600So you can see – and that is consistent with very high linguistic IQ.
00:10:54.880And there's a number of studies that have shown that this relationship – people would say, oh, well, it's to do with cultural factors and Jewish people being wealthier or – and apparently that's taboo to even point that out – but Jewish people being wealthier or more educated or more urban or whatever.
00:11:12.340So when we look at intelligence, we divide between different kinds of intelligence, verbal, linguistic, mathematical, and these tend to intercorrelate in people.
00:11:19.660So people that are good at one kind of – people differ in these, but people that are good at one kind are good at the other kind and the other kind.
00:11:25.820And so there's an underlying factor which we call G.
00:11:28.580And this has been shown from twin studies and twin adoption studies and things like this to be highly heritable, highly genetic, in the region of 0.8 heritable.
00:11:37.400So it's a strongly genetic thing that you inherit, G, and the difference between Gentiles and Jews on IQ is on G.
00:11:49.980So it's not – you could get that there's an IQ difference, but it's driven by massive differences in things that relate just vaguely to G that are to do with, I don't know, being good at spotting patterns or something like that.
00:12:12.980Curtis Dunkel is at the University of Western Illinois.
00:12:16.680Apologetic scores mediate the Jewish phenotypic advantage in education, attainment, and cognizability compared to Catholics and Lutherans.
00:12:22.820And so what this shows is that it is definitely a genetic issue.
00:12:27.780So Jewish people, Ashkenazi Jewish people, are more intelligent than white people, much more intelligent than white people.
00:12:35.560And it is almost half a standard deviation, 12 points.
00:12:39.560That's the difference between the average office worker, whatever, and a schoolteacher, or the average schoolteacher and a university science professor.
00:12:47.200That's the kind of difference we're talking about.
00:12:49.900And so, yeah, so they are more intelligent.
00:12:53.920But they are genetically more intelligent.
00:12:55.840Before we ask – before we talk about why, I just want to reiterate this IQ profile.
00:13:03.600And I certainly agree that the difference is G, general intelligence, which is kind of like if you're good at one thing, you're good at a lot of things.
00:13:32.100He could probably learn to play a musical instrument in the sense that if you have general intelligence, it can be applied everywhere.
00:13:39.600But the Jewish intelligence profile is a bit lopsided, you could say, in the sense that Jews excel at verbal ability.
00:13:52.180You can think of this as the, you know, the words, words, words, the verbal aspect of the SAT or IQ or GRE.
00:14:00.760And they are not as good on the mathematics or spatial reasoning concept.
00:14:06.660And actually, Asians have kind of the reverse profile in which they excel at spatial reasoning and so on, but then don't excel as much on verbal.
00:14:20.380So, you know, your average East Asian has a higher IQ than your average white in the United States.
00:14:27.820However, he has a different intelligence profile.
00:15:01.640And it's the same, yeah, with the Jews and the East Asians.
00:15:05.040And interestingly, when you get to – the higher is the level of G, the higher you are on G, so the higher your IQ is, the narrower your intelligence becomes.
00:15:16.180Because the more it becomes related to G.
00:15:18.640And so you get these parts of the IQ test, the things that it tests, which are only weakly measuring G.
00:15:25.580And lots of – any cognitive tasks you can think of, even driving a car or doing your shoelaces up or catching a ball or something.
00:16:21.860So let's start to talk about why that is.
00:16:25.720First off, Jews are a race in a way, but that's a bit of a blurry issue, to be honest, because Jews will go – I mean, Jews' entrance into Europe was an entrance into intermarriage with Gentiles.
00:16:48.660The Mizorahim, the Oriental Jews, or whatever you want to call them, are similarly looking and have a similar intelligence profile as Arabs.
00:16:58.980So Jews survive as a people through religion and a shared story and culture, etc.
00:17:08.000But genetically speaking, they enter into larger host races and intermarry and interbreed and become – they're not quite a race in the sense that African Americans, even though there clearly has been intermarriage and interbreeding, you know, rape and so on in earlier times, they are a distinct race.
00:17:34.140You can define them, whereas Jews, it's a little bit trickier.
00:17:39.480But let's just think of them as that kind of amalgamized group.
00:17:45.320But what are some of the reasons why they have higher IQ?
00:17:50.700I mean, the first one is obvious, and I'll just put it out there.
00:17:54.620It's that they actually are breeding with Gentiles.
00:17:57.140So whatever the IQ was of, say, ancient Jews or these Middle Eastern Jews who originally entered Europe, entered Southern Europe at the beginning, I believe, they were marrying into Gentile host communities that were boosting their IQ.
00:18:18.820But what are some other reasons why they have this higher IQ than their host population?
00:18:24.920Kevin MacDonald pointed out that in ancient times, there was no particular comment on the high intelligence of the Jews.
00:18:31.560And the comment on the high intelligence of the Jews comes later.
00:18:34.240So this would be consistent with some sort of breeding pattern that was going on that had started off then or a bit before then and wasn't really noticed substantially till later.
00:18:44.600If you look at the Old Testament, in some ways, it's a kind of a manifesto for taking over the world, really, in terms of what we call group selection,
00:18:53.800which is ensuring that your group will beat the other group and outbreed the other group in the battle for survival.
00:19:00.280So, first of all, it very strongly promotes religiousness, obviously.
00:19:03.980But what that religiousness is promoting as the will of God is basically ethnocentric things, things that are for the good of the group,
00:19:10.000that make the group more self-sacrificial, that you're more internally cooperative, that cast out and kill those who are disobedient to the group,
00:19:18.920which is manifested in them worshipping other gods or all kinds of law breakings of all kinds of minor laws.
00:19:25.360They have to be cast out and removed, often in some depth.
00:19:28.260I mean, even the villages where people have blasphemed, the whole village has to be destroyed.
00:19:32.540You get these kinds of injunctions in various books in the Old Testament.
00:19:35.520So it's making them more ethnocentric.
00:19:37.580Another thing it seems to do is it seems to encourage people who are like the rabbis, for example,
00:19:41.860and those who are in positions of power under these conditions that they were under.
00:19:45.740We know that until the Industrial Revolution there was this survival of the richest, whereby the richer 50% of the population had about double the completed fertility as the poorer 50%.
00:19:57.040And this was selecting for intelligence every generation because of the correlation between intelligence and socioeconomic status.
00:20:03.560And what you see in the Old Testament as well are these injunctions where things are kind of relaxed when it comes to the rabbi.
00:20:11.880Things are done to make the priest even richer than he is already.
00:20:16.440And by making him even richer than he is, then, of course, you're making him a better – they're allowed to have children, which is the interesting thing, the priests.
00:20:24.240And so, therefore, you're elevating the likelihood that it is their genes that are going to survive.
00:20:30.120And they're going to be the most intelligent people in the society.
00:20:32.840And the religion is elevating the likelihood that those people, the rabbis, are going to be the ones that are going to pass on their genes.
00:20:40.020Real quick, do you think that the Catholic injunction against priest marrying was overall dysgenic, even if it did have some benefits, maybe some social benefits, maybe even some kind of intellectual benefits of these incels, you know, coming up with great ideas?
00:21:03.700But do you think it was an overall dysgenic effect?
00:21:06.940There is some – yeah, I would concur with the idea that in terms of group selection, there is some benefit to having a caste that is celibate.
00:21:23.880And then that caste pushes its energies into things which are for the good of the group.
00:21:29.020And therefore, the group becomes more group selected, and therefore, it's more likely to survive.
00:21:35.680Yeah, so the punishment for a daughter who's a bit of a slapper is worse if she's a priest's daughter.
00:21:42.960So it's as if they realize that it's going to be that person's children that are going to be the future because she's rich.
00:21:49.140So we've got to make sure if she's a slapper, she's killed.
00:21:51.400Whereas if she's working class, they might do what she likes.
00:21:56.260Slapper, this is English slang for –
00:22:15.960I mean, I also agree with group selection and that there should be some people who think for the group, and they might be incels or perhaps even better if they're not.
00:22:24.900But so I think there is some benefit on the whole of having a celibate caste if they're operating in the right direction.
00:22:34.800The other difference is that the rabbis who, of course, had children were highly educated by the standards of their society, were well-read, they were literate, all this kind of thing.
00:22:50.760If you look at research on what it was like in medieval Europe – I mean, I'm familiar with the research on medieval England.
00:22:56.240Being a priest went well down the social hierarchy.
00:23:02.440You had what was called poor priests who would combine being a priest, like being a kind of freelance priest, basically.
00:23:08.420The country, a Catholic country, they were all washed with priests because the belief is that you need these priests to say masses for your soul and for the souls of your relatives.
00:23:15.500So there's so many priests everywhere.
00:23:17.320And you get the priests that are at the top of society, that are the bishops and whatever, and that are the vicars and whatever.
00:23:21.840They tend to be upper class and have degrees.
00:23:23.700Then you have those that are the curates.
00:23:25.260They don't tend to have been to university.
00:23:28.160They're kind of on the same level as the yeoman and the husbandman, the middling sort, basically.
00:23:33.940And then you have those that are even further down, the so-called poor priests, which is most of them, that don't have a parish and just kind of save masses for people for money.
00:23:43.780So it goes right down the social hierarchy, and it goes right down the intelligence hierarchy.
00:23:48.440And a lot of these people were probably literate or semi-literate.
00:24:26.740And so Jews were kind of benignly forced into the occupations of moneylending.
00:24:33.480There were Gentile moneylenders like the Medici and so on who would often come up with elaborate bookkeeping tricks to prove that they weren't actually engaging in usury.
00:24:45.140I think that was done among Arabs or Muslims in the Middle East as well.
00:25:03.840But what are the kernels of truth to that?
00:25:06.080Yes, it does seem to be the case that when they were forced into these ghettos, there were only certain professions they could engage in.
00:25:13.980And so consequently, and these were professions that required high cognitive abilities.
00:25:20.300And so consequently, those that were not able to pursue those professions because they weren't clever enough, because you're going to get this effect whereby sometimes highly intelligent Jewish parents are going to have children that aren't particularly bright, and were not able to do that kind of thing, then those children are either going to die, because there's no other profession they can do, or they're going to fall down into the Gentile classes.
00:25:41.940In much the same way that if you look at the Irish gypsies, they're not just purebred Irish gypsies.
00:25:50.520And what happened was those that were right at the bottom of Irish society would basically fall into the gypsy class and then sort of become gypsy.
00:25:57.600So it's a similar kind of – there's Greg Clark has looked at this in one of his books.
00:26:05.000So yeah, I think that is probably true, that they were bottlenecked into these professions.
00:26:09.680These professions – and if you couldn't do those kinds of professions, then I'm afraid you weren't going to survive, so you wouldn't pass on your genes, so you would just die.
00:26:22.500First off, I guess I'm a financial realist to the extent that I think loans of some kind are going to need to take place in society.
00:26:34.960There is a time element to money and so on, and that loans can certainly, at the very least, be quite powerful in terms of projects and so on.
00:26:47.620I generally get the criticism of a parasitic elite just kind of sucking their 0.1% off the billions that are flowing through Wall Street or something.
00:26:59.840I think that's true to a large extent.
00:27:03.380However, I do think that loans – that no society can quite exist without some kind of time quality to money and that this is necessary.
00:27:12.900But I just want to point out how devastating it was for these injunctions against money lending.
00:27:19.920The fact that we went to the ghettos in order to get a loan, whether out of dire need or out of a future vision for a project, I think this was a pretty devastating effect for Europeans.
00:27:33.980I wish there were a stronger white financial class.
00:27:38.520But it allowed them to feel that they were morally pure, if you like, while still doing the thing that was basically forbidden, which was engaging in history.
00:27:50.640So it was – you can see why it was attractive in much the same way that they needed – they weren't supposed to go around killing people and whatever.
00:28:00.360So they got around that problem with things like confession, where they could kill people as they wished and then confess the sin, and then the slate was wiped clean.
00:28:08.680So you'll always get around these things theologically eventually.
00:28:11.780But anyway, I do think that one of the things was this focusing of them into these professions.
00:28:15.560It is a stereotype, but I do think there's some truth in it.
00:28:18.180And it built a racial profile, I mean, in the sense that the white racial profile, our bell curve, you could say, is quite wide in the sense that we have whites with IQs of 90, with IQs even lower than that.
00:29:58.100But I'm talking about the width of the bell curve.
00:30:00.240So what it means is it's going to be a more efficient society and fewer things are going to go wrong and fewer little mistakes are going to happen and all this and less crime.
00:30:08.540And equally with the Jews, if they were going to – if the Jews – if you've got a Jewish society with an average IQ of 112, all that means is that the average – the people that are the office workers and whatever in that society, the policemen and people like this will have an IQ of 112 and the teachers will have an IQ of 112 and so on.
00:30:26.620I obviously want the IQ of laborers to go up and et cetera.
00:30:30.860Even though there actually is a kind of breaking point, it seems like once you have an IQ of, I don't know, 115, you kind of start thinking so much about yourself and you're not willing to be a janitor perhaps.
00:30:43.940So there are maybe some problems to that.
00:30:46.580But generally, all things being equal, I do want to raise everyone's IQ in our race.
00:30:52.100What I'm saying is the – to visualize it, you can think of it as the width of the bell curve in the sense that where is the Jewish proletariat?
00:31:26.680In the same way that you're going to – the Asian-Americans, the Northeast Asian-Americans do better than the whites, so you don't get much of an American, Northeast Asian working class.
00:31:39.320You used to when they first came there to California in the 1850s or whatever, of course, because there was nothing else for them to do other than labor, and that's why they came.
00:31:46.700But they will quickly rise up the society.
00:31:50.000And if you create a purely Jewish society, then you will get a Jewish working class.
00:31:58.180And the only thing that's militated against that is the presence of the Ethiopian Jews, who, of course, are – from Ethiopia, the blacks, who, of course, have an average IQ of about 75, 80.
00:32:12.160And hasn't the Jewish – Jews have – Jews are not monolithic.
00:32:18.400And hasn't the impulse towards Jewish nationalism, the idea that we're going to all go and farm in a kibbutz and live in a kind of communal society, hasn't that failed at some level?
00:32:30.000And the other ideal of a global people that is embedded in other societies, hasn't that been clearly the most successful version of Jews?
00:32:42.160That Jews are – they have a different racial profile.
00:32:46.620They have a different racial ideal than Gentiles who are landed.
00:32:50.960We like to think of ourselves as having a nation.
00:33:33.820And so it follows if a race has – well, just – OK.
00:33:38.220Well, just if we're going to talk in stereotypes, then there's a degree to which that stereotype bears out.
00:33:42.440And so these nowheres, these Brexit voters, these anti-Brexit voters, sorry, these people like that.
00:33:49.520And so the Jews are simply a people who have an IQ that's almost a standard deviation higher than that of Europeans.
00:33:56.060So it follows that far more of them are going to have these kinds of values that are associated with high intelligence Europeans, i.e. to be rootless and open and, as you say.
00:34:07.340So I think that kind of fits to some extent.
00:34:12.480The thing that would militate against that, perhaps, would be things like very high levels of ethnocentrism or very high levels of conformism.
00:34:21.440So with the Northeast Asians, I don't know if they have values that are more cosmopolitan, but then you could argue they've been more selected for this highly ethnocentric society.
00:34:31.040And also their intelligence is more bunched.
00:34:33.980And there's other factors that are involved there.
00:34:37.100But, yeah, I mean, the Jews are adapted to a different ecology from us.
00:34:40.460So with reference to your comment about us being grounded in the soil and whatever, it would follow that they're adapted to a different ecology.
00:34:47.100And so they would see things differently, that the selection pressures have been different.
00:34:51.220And so, yeah, you would expect them perhaps to have a different modal nature.
00:35:03.100We have a little bit of disagreement there.
00:35:04.680I mean, one of the things that I took away from Richard Lenn's book that I believe he was taking from the work of Harpending and Cochran, the late, sadly late, Henry Harpending, man I knew quite well.
00:35:38.780Yes, so they talked about actually the pogroms in Russia and in Central Europe as being eugenic at some level in the sense that the smarter, more intelligent ones had a better means of escaping, of paying off someone, of maybe reading a newspaper report about this happening elsewhere and leaving and so on.
00:36:03.540And it was actually the lower class Jews who took the brunt of the pogroms and blood libel accusations and all that kind of stuff.
00:36:12.820And that this aspect of their recent history was actually highly eugenic.
00:36:19.520Yes, that would make a great deal of sense.
00:36:22.000And also, interestingly, the difference in IQ between the whites, the Eastern Europeans and whatever, and the Ashkenazi, that's the biggest difference.
00:36:32.640It's a difference of 12 points, whereas the difference between the Sephardi and the Spanish-Portuguese, whatever, is not as...
00:37:07.940The Holocaust would be, therefore, a very good example of a selection event.
00:37:12.000And this is something that Richard Lynn argues in his book, because who are the people that are going to be planning for the future and thinking to themselves in 1933, or even before that, even before the Nazis came to power, I've got to get out of here.
00:37:28.720And the less intelligent people are going to think to themselves, well, it might get bad, but it would be a lot of effort to put in to move the country or whatever.
00:37:35.380So let's move country, but let's not move very far.
00:37:37.780Let's move from Germany to the Netherlands or something like that, rather than move to England or to the United States.
00:37:45.940And so it seems obvious that it's going to...
00:37:47.920It would have had a very significant effect on the intelligence of the Ashkenazi, that would have been the more intelligent who would have been left behind.
00:37:56.780And so in that sense, again, it's consistent with what you were saying, the lack of a Jewish working class or whatever, that these kinds of people that had those kinds of IQs,
00:38:04.840although there would have been fewer of them in proportion to the Gentiles, the capita, would have been much more likely to have been wiped out in these selected events, particularly the Holocaust.
00:38:15.840Right. Let's talk a little bit about Jewish genius.
00:38:19.580And I want to push back a little bit on the quantitative view, which is expressed by Brett Stevens, which is, look at all of these Jews winning Nobel Prizes or getting big university gigs and so on.
00:38:35.500One of the quantitative conclusions reached by Richard Lynn was that, or empirical conclusions, you could say, reached by Richard Lynn, was that IQ actually didn't explain Jewish disproportionate success in things like Nobel Prizes or university positions, etc.
00:38:58.340That just looking at a straight IQ, we would imagine that if they're 3% of the population, they might be 15% or 20% of the university professors or so on.
00:39:11.580But it's actually higher, and it's higher in terms of the Nobel Prizes.
00:39:15.240So you could answer that in a couple of different ways.
00:39:18.460You could say that, well, there's this extreme Jewish genius, actually, that so they might be outnumbered in terms of people with IQs of 115, but they're really outnumbered in terms of people with IQs of 130 or something like that.
00:39:32.440But I would actually push back a little bit on that and say that there is Jewish ethnocentric networking going on, something where their religion is a tremendous benefit to their people's success.
00:39:48.840Quite unlike whites' religion, I would add, which is, at least ideologically, Christianity today is almost the opposite of ethnocentrism in its express views.
00:40:03.820But so there actually is a kind of ethnic nepotism taking place that promotes this.
00:40:10.760And even Ron Unz, who a few years ago did a very important article on the Ivy League and Jews, was actually proving that whites and Asians are being discriminated against.
00:40:23.460It's not just a matter of, oh, well, Jews are smart.
00:40:28.000Of course they're going to go to the Ivy League now that the Ivy League has been open to them since the 1960s or so, and that started to change.
00:40:36.060It actually is a case that there is a nepotistic ethnocentrism going on in which Jews are outnumbered in the Ivy League in comparison to their IQ.
00:40:56.200But in terms of just getting a leg up into highly influential or, at the very least, highly symbolic political positions, having an Ivy League degree is a huge benefit.
00:41:11.820And that there is a tremendous amount of networking going on behind the scenes that is silent to the outside world but is quite loud to the inner group.
00:41:24.860So, firstly, there was a paper, I don't know if it's been replicated or anything, that was by Cochrane, Hardy, and Harpending.
00:41:32.920And it argued that the Jews are prone to these certain congenital conditions, such as schizoglipid, DNA repair, Goucher's disease, these kinds of things.
00:41:49.440Yes, these conditions that are very prevalent among the Jews.
00:41:54.860And what he showed is that these conditions correlate with IQ.
00:41:58.240So, people that have relatives with those conditions tend to have high IQ.
00:42:02.360So, the argument is that what's going on is that you get conditions like this, where if you have one copy of the gene, you have something negative and awful that happens to you, let's say.
00:42:13.320But if you have two copies, then something positive happens to you, something adaptive.
00:42:16.940And the consequence of that is that the negative thing, the condition, stays in the population because the damage that's done by the condition is massively outweighed by the positive thing, i.e. high intelligence.
00:42:44.020And so, the consequence of this is that it stays in the population.
00:42:48.420So, that's one possibility in terms of Jewish intelligence.
00:42:51.560There are these peculiar genes for intelligence that have popped up because of the selection bottleneck that Jews were in and that they've stayed there.
00:42:59.760Another issue in terms of understanding their over-representation is their personality.
00:43:04.000So, there was a study that was led by, again, this Curtis Dunkel fellow who I mentioned earlier.
00:43:07.900And he showed that what's called the general factor of personality of Jews is higher than that of white Gentiles.
00:43:14.340The general factor of personality is basically the socially effective personality.
00:43:20.240The aspects of what we call in psychology the big five personality traits, agreeableness, which is altruism and empathy, conscientiousness, which is rule following and that kind of thing, and impulse control.
00:43:30.680Extroversion, which is feeling positive, feeling strongly.
00:43:34.740And openness, intellect, openness to new ideas, that kind of thing.
00:43:38.040And this is a G factor, like there's a G factor with intelligence.
00:43:41.840There's a G factor that underpins these.
00:43:44.340Which is, are you socially effective or not socially effective?
00:43:47.940And Jews are higher in that general factor of personality than Gentiles.
00:43:52.260And general factor of personality predicts educational success, socioeconomic success, how much you earn, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:43:58.300The essence of it is being socially effective.
00:44:01.680So, you have these big five personality traits.
00:44:03.860And there's a G factor, a general factor, which underpins those, where they intercorrelate.
00:44:07.860And that is on whether you are socially effective or not socially effective.
00:44:11.860And Jewish people score higher on the GFP than do white Gentiles.
00:44:18.440And this social effectiveness predicts doing well in education, doing well in work, socioeconomically predicts making money, basically predicts getting on in life.
00:44:28.200And that's what Jews are higher in than Gentiles.
00:44:32.220And you are probably, I think, another thing that myself and this Curtis Dunkel fellow did a paper on was on Jewish ethnocentrism.
00:44:39.620And what we proved using a sample of different white religious groups and Jews was that Jews, even controlling for things like intelligence, are the most ethnocentric.
00:44:49.660They are the most group-centric of the different religious groups.
00:44:53.400They are the most inclined to regard it as important that somebody who is their friend is a member of their group, i.e. Jewish, and so on.
00:45:02.940Now, to follow from that, if we look at the research by J. Philippe Rushton on genetic similarity theory, that people act in their genetic interests.
00:45:10.800And you can act in your genetic interests by looking after your children and whatever, investing energy in them, as we've been doing at Christmas, investing in your kin, investing even in friends who tend to be more genetically similar than two random members of the same ethnic group, but also in investing in your ethnic group.
00:45:28.280And so, if the group is more ethnocentric than the other group, than whites, then you would expect them to disproportionately do that.
00:45:35.180You would expect them to be highly ethnically nepotistic, more so than would be a less ethnic group.
00:45:42.980I mean, this has been shown, if you compare whites and Northeast Asians within the USA, Northeast Asian children are more ethnically nepotistic.
00:45:51.840They're more inclined to want friends that are of the same race as them.
00:45:55.460They're more inclined to bond with people more so than whites are.
00:45:59.220So, I would suspect that this would be also the case when you compare Jews and whites.
00:46:02.480And interestingly, in academia, there was a paper that was published about 20 or 25 years ago, or something was it now, at Schuwen-Greenwald.
00:46:11.600And they showed that people, they got Jewish academics and they got white academics, and then they got them to cite academic papers.
00:46:20.520They found that, so when you've got to cite something, all else being equal, Jewish academics will cite other Jewish academics.
00:46:26.320Let's say they need a random citation on whatever it is, you know, the politics of Spain.
00:46:32.780Jewish academics will cite Jewish academics, and non-Jewish academics will cite non-Jewish academics.
00:46:36.600So, this again shows you that there is very real possibility for ethnic nepotism in academia.
00:46:41.560And why wouldn't there be? Because you would expect ethnic nepotism in any area of life.
00:46:45.620And particularly if they were a minority, then you would expect them to act in their own interests, ethnocentrically, until they were.
00:46:52.760So, that would, again, that would make sense as well.
00:46:55.680And it's both probably a little bit conscious and a little bit unconscious as well.
00:47:00.000And you could add to that this trend of, say, Jewish atheism, that is, Jews losing touch with their religion, becoming your average individualist liberal,
00:47:12.800but then maintaining what are effectively Jewish societies, Jewish groups that do intellectual work, Jewish academic circles, et cetera.
00:47:26.120That a lot of these, you know, supposedly secular leftist organizations are, in fact, Jewish organizations, ethnically speaking,
00:47:34.720even if every single member of them is an agnostic atheist, et cetera.
00:48:04.980And you can see this in Brett Stevens' article.
00:48:10.240He begins the article with this amusing, but I find rather stupid anecdote about some Jews in Lithuania who don't understand why their rabbi doesn't like soccer games.
00:48:28.240And so they take him to a professional soccer match to see this.
00:48:32.340And his response to this is, I know how to solve this problem.
00:48:36.280Why don't we give each team their own ball so they stop fighting over the ball?
00:48:40.840And this is, according to Brett Stevens, their amazing ability to think outside the box and question premises and so on.
00:48:50.640I find this to be just utterly destructive and utterly childish moralism in the sense that there is a Aryan spirit, you know, writ large, but there's an Anglo-Saxon spirit of fair play and competition and sport.
00:49:09.700The idea that there are rules that you have to play by, and you play by these rules, you can excel.
00:49:16.820There's a game and a competition, there are winners and losers, but actually, at the end of the day, the losers aren't killed.
00:49:24.460They can fight another day, and the winner can actually go and shake hands with the loser and say,
00:49:29.740good sport, you might have lost today, but you could win tomorrow, and you are a decent person.
00:49:37.700The spirit of fair play, which is, I think, actually quite unique to us.
00:49:43.160And this is destroyed by the childish moralism of this stupid rabbi who wants to give each team their own ball.
00:49:50.540It's the kind of thing I would expect from a three-year-old.
00:49:52.760Jews don't so much think outside the box as much as they simply have a different box that they're thinking in,
00:50:02.140and that this comes into conflict with their host groups.
00:50:06.620And you could say it's, you know, you know, oh, real heady stuff, you're mind-blowing, you're questioning everything,
00:50:14.340but it's actually just their own form of dogmatism.
00:50:17.720Jews excel at moralism and at dogmatism and at in-group conformist thinking.
00:50:26.780And this notion that they're idiosyncratic is ridiculous.
00:50:30.320They're only idiosyncratic in the sense that they exist in a host society that thinks differently than they do.
00:50:37.000And Jews would not exist without moralization.
00:50:39.820The greatest trans—I mean, you know, to Nietzsche post here a little bit, since we've been science posting for a while,
00:50:48.660the greatest trans-evaluation of all values occurred at the very end of the ancient world
00:50:56.220with the creation of Judaism and then ultimately a Jewish faith, that is Christianity,
00:51:04.320that valued the weak, that made being strong and beautiful and heroic and dominant a bad thing
00:51:14.700and reversed the morality of the Romans, reversed the morality of the ancient world,
00:51:21.700and ultimately structured what we could call liberalism and leftism.
00:51:26.020So it is a conformist, dogmatic moralism that defines Jews.