RadixJournal - The Poverty of Race-Realism

00:00:00.000 Well, against my better judgment, I think I'm going to wade into the current HBD controversy

00:00:09.880 that is swirling around Bronze Age Pervert. 0.75

00:00:15.940 He goes by Bronze Age Mantis on Twitter.

00:00:19.960 He's the author of Bronze Age Mindset and many other writings.

00:00:26.060 I'll say from the outset, I'm not a fan of Bronze Age Pervert. 1.00

00:00:35.060 I couldn't get through his book because I found it so annoying and shallow.

00:00:43.340 That is the Bronze Age Mindset book.

00:00:46.480 It's very depressing that he is associated with Nietzscheanism.

00:00:55.840 He presents Nietzsche in a way that could only be described as teenage or juvenile.

00:01:06.160 But the rest of his output seems to be filled with various bold assertions, bravery signaling his announcement that he is the biggest badass ever

00:01:23.460 while he's actually kind of hiding away in Romania.

00:01:28.840 And he kind of looks like a weirdo, to be honest.

00:01:33.080 But I actually will wade into this because I find myself agreeing with him, at least on a superficial level, about the limitations of HBD.

00:01:47.880 And here I'm speaking personally, not necessarily what his perspective is, but also some annoyance I have with some of these late coming adopters of HBD.

00:02:02.500 I'm thinking here specifically of Aporia Magazine and Bo Weingart, but there are probably other examples.

00:02:09.340 Anyway, let me read this one tweet because it will give me enough fodder to dilate on this matter.

00:02:17.380 So this is Bronze Age Pervert, January 2nd, 2024.

00:02:23.360 While for the sake of truth, I think facts about racial disparities should be discussed, it's not good at all politically.

00:02:33.360 Well, fair enough.

00:02:36.660 I basically agree.

00:02:39.120 In 2024, going into any sort of political debate with a bunch of IQ charts or califers or anything resembling that would just be a total non-starter.

00:02:56.640 You'll get lambasted in the press.

00:03:00.680 You'll be canceled, et cetera, et cetera.

00:03:03.100 But we already knew that.

00:03:05.500 I would ask whether posting homoerotic photos on Instagram, declaring yourself a barbarian Nietzschean, while ultimately being curiously Jewish, is a good path forward politically. 0.89

00:03:25.240 I'm not sure race realism is worse than that one, but I guess we should just take him at his word that he knows better. 0.99

00:03:36.520 But anyway, I'll read on.

00:03:37.660 In fact, it's impossible in the present circumstances.

00:03:41.320 Only a myth of race blindness is workable.

00:03:44.520 Well, again, I do tend to agree on a superficial level.

00:03:50.440 I also agree on a deeper level of a myth of race blindness. 0.67

00:03:55.300 I think it is a myth, and that is the best way to think about it.

00:04:01.360 He drops that later on in this, but I would applaud him for understanding that it is ultimately about feelings and not facts.

00:04:11.860 Feelings don't care about your facts.

00:04:13.440 You could have all the facts in the world enough to fill up many volumes by Richard Lynn, and that myth of race blindness, this idea that we can overcome the past, evolution, tribe, et cetera, is extremely powerful.

00:04:30.480 The notion that every human person has the ability, whether it derives from his immortal soul or his mind in a kind of Hegelian way, that he can overcome all of this.

00:04:45.260 He can overcome his upbringing.

00:04:46.720 He can overcome his tendency to side with his tribe.

00:04:51.840 He can overcome his evolutionary past.

00:04:54.400 He can overcome the history of colonialism or the oppression, the Holocaust, Jim Crow, et cetera, et cetera.

00:05:02.860 There is a kind of mythical, idealistic impulse that derives the tenets of liberalism, and I totally agree with that.

00:05:14.240 And I think in the face of something that powerful, race realism will ultimately fall flat.

00:05:20.400 And I do think that that's its fatal flaw.

00:05:23.880 I also agree that the truth is the truth.

00:05:28.000 You should read the truth, you should read the data, use your logic and sometimes intuitive leaps, but you should just pursue the truth wherever it takes you.

00:05:41.300 And even if it is politically unpalatable for most, that's okay.

00:05:48.620 That's not your job.

00:05:49.560 So I more or less agree with him here, even if he is acting in bad faith as usual.

00:05:56.000 You won't convince some populations that they are inferior by birth and deserve their station in life.

00:06:01.540 You won't even convince, quote, decent people, end quote, from high achieving populations of this.

00:06:07.880 I don't know why he used a scare quote there, but I'll move on.

00:06:10.740 On the other hand, discrimination to offset perceived past discrimination or natural inequalities is also felt to be wrong, although I think it would be relatively easy to convince modern populations to accept affirmative action to offset natural inequalities, which is another reason pushing this with a political intention is a big mistake.

00:06:31.260 Okay, this isn't exactly clear, but I know what he's talking about.

00:06:37.420 And he actually does clarify this in some other tweets.

00:06:41.960 And I think this gets to an important aspect of why I also think race realism is rather unworkable and not really worth pursuing, certainly politically, but also intellectually.

00:06:58.380 It's a dead end, as it were.

00:07:01.260 So there's a fact and value problem here.

00:07:06.460 So there's the fact that Johnny can't read good, that Johnny has a low IQ, that Johnny got hit in the head by a mule when he was five, that Johnny's father was in and out of prison for his entire life, et cetera, et cetera.

00:07:27.260 There's also a value that we want Johnny's father, et cetera.

00:07:29.260 There's also a value that we want Johnny to be good.

00:07:31.540 We want Johnny to overcome those things.

00:07:34.940 We want Johnny to transcend his past.

00:07:37.800 Those are just two very different things.

00:07:41.160 Race realism is or has been very often associated with white nationalism.

00:07:50.640 Much in the way, and pardon the controversial analogy I'm going to draw, much in the way that, say, Holocaust denial has been hand in glove with neo-Nazism or some sort of right-wing ideology.

00:08:09.680 So I'll take the latter salacious example to prove the point, which is that theoretically you could, of course, find someone who examines the history books,

00:08:30.460 examines the archives, delves into the Auschwitz camp, et cetera, and they are a liberal, they're a leftist, they're a communist, let's say, and they just determine that the Holocaust didn't happen. 0.70

00:08:44.800 That is theoretically possible, of course, but it never really happens that way, does it?

00:08:51.380 Most all Holocaust revisionists are right-wingers.

00:08:56.360 It just is what it is.

00:08:57.760 They are self-serving in their history writing.

00:09:01.500 Now, everyone's self-serving, of course, but they are particularly self-serving.

00:09:06.000 And they want it to be true.

00:09:09.000 They want to rescue the reputation of Hitler, et cetera.

00:09:13.680 Now, that's a very strong example to prove a point, but you see where I'm going with race realism.

00:09:21.160 Now, theoretically, you can go in with an open mind, just look at the facts, use evolutionary theory to reach race realism, and that doesn't have anything to do with what you feel or what your values might be.

00:09:38.320 You could be a Catholic.

00:09:39.500 You could be a communist.

00:09:40.720 You could be an atheist, libertarian, et cetera.

00:09:43.460 But let's just be real here.

00:09:47.840 It might not be as strong as the Holocaust revision example that I mentioned, but most all race realists are, in effect, white nationalists.

00:09:58.280 Now, you know, what is white nationalism?

00:10:02.620 I think it probably could be defined as the idea that the American white population needs to be segregated from other races and needs a state of its own. 0.65

00:10:12.980 Now, it can take a lot of other forms.

00:10:14.420 It's a good definition.

00:10:15.180 And those people are very much into the psychometric discussion, that is, the IQ discussion, evolutionary theory about races, et cetera.

00:10:27.960 Now, that's not always the case.

00:10:29.720 Many people who were clearly white nationalists were Christians who rejected Darwin, et cetera.

00:10:38.160 But that's the case now.

00:10:39.620 So I'm thinking here something like American Renaissance, V-Dare, et cetera.

00:10:45.180 They are, in effect, Republicans, but they're Republicans with a little bit extra.

00:10:53.020 They are Republicans who bring their data tables to the party and don't just engage in dog whistling, let's say.

00:11:05.320 So those people are naturally inclined to like HBD, and HBD reinforces many of their pre-existing presuppositions. 0.98

00:11:16.140 So it says that white people are smarter than blacks, not quite as smart as Asians, at least on math, and not nearly as smart as Ashkenazi Jews. 1.00

00:11:26.420 So it reinforces presuppositions. 0.99

00:11:30.940 It makes them feel good, to be frank.

00:11:35.160 Now, this can take a number of different forms.

00:11:39.900 I have definitely known some libertarians, some even anarchist types, who think that race realism is necessary precisely because there are going to be group inequalities in any free society.

00:11:55.580 And if you find that a, say, law school class is predominantly white, Asian, and Ashkenazi Jewish, and blacks are well underrepresented, and Hispanics are fairly underrepresented.

00:12:18.040 Then you could say, well, the admissions officers, they must be racist.

00:12:23.740 There must be some systematic racism that's infected our entire society.

00:12:28.800 We have to look into this.

00:12:30.000 We need to counteract it with public measures.

00:12:32.240 And then one public measure follows another, becoming more and more intense.

00:12:37.800 It leads to more socialism, et cetera, et cetera.

00:12:39.940 There's this big problem that you think is a problem because you aren't ultimately colorblind.

00:12:49.800 No one is colorblind.

00:12:51.800 Everyone can read a stoplight.

00:12:54.100 So if your presupposition is that this should be a random distribution in this hypothetical law school class, then you're going to want to solve that problem.

00:13:02.860 Well, another solution is that it's just about race realism.

00:13:09.860 You know, Asians, high spatial mathematical IQ, lower on the verbal. 1.00

00:13:17.580 They can do the law school stuff.

00:13:20.460 Ashkenazi, super good at verbal.

00:13:25.020 No doubt that they're vastly overrepresented.

00:13:29.160 Whites, well-rounded population.

00:13:33.860 And it's, there's no question of why they're overrepresented or just simply represented.

00:13:44.080 Hispanics, that's a very diverse population.

00:13:46.000 But certainly with African Americans, they're just not up to the task. 1.00

00:13:49.500 Some individuals will be.

00:13:51.060 But as when we're looking at this thing on a demographic level, they're just going to be seriously underrepresented.

00:13:59.360 And that just is what it is.

00:14:00.840 And we need not judge anyone.

00:14:04.600 That African American who gets into law school is just as talented as the Asian candidate.

00:14:12.200 And we can speak, break bread, exchange ideas as individuals in that type of realm if it is truly free.

00:14:23.200 And in this scenario, race realism bolsters that type of free society.

00:14:29.640 The world works in a way that is driven by, on the one hand, a sort of racial nationalism, which is actually a very natural thing. 0.93

00:14:50.640 And on the other hand, a sort of, let's say, Christian idealism.

00:14:57.200 There's no Greek. 1.00

00:14:59.380 There's no white. 0.93

00:15:00.600 There's no Jew. 1.00

00:15:01.420 There's only one in Christ or one in America or one under the law, etc.

00:15:06.240 It's a kind of post-Christian conception.

00:15:10.980 And both of those things are going to counteract any sort of free society.

00:15:18.360 So the post-Christian one is pretty obvious. 0.98

00:15:24.020 You see a law school class, or let's say you see the current class of the University of California, Los Angeles, and it's all Asian. 0.93

00:15:33.700 And it just feels a little gross.

00:15:36.900 It feels unfair.

00:15:38.620 It's bad.

00:15:39.540 Something must be done, etc.

00:15:42.360 Now, I don't think we should underestimate the power of white nationalism, even in the United States.

00:15:51.200 So if you look at expressed preferences of the U.S. population, it is basically a kind of socially conservative, fiscally liberal grouping.

00:16:07.980 I can remember growing up in the 90s and hearing a lot about this new type of person who was fiscally conservative and socially liberal.

00:16:19.460 So what that means is he accepted gays, women in the workplace, just fine.

00:16:25.280 But, you know, we can't tax too hard, and we've got to balance those budgets, etc.

00:16:30.900 That person barely exists.

00:16:34.660 There are actually very few people who hold that perspective.

00:16:40.020 Whereas there is a huge swath of the population that want their health care, they want their social security,

00:16:48.480 they want their guaranteed union labor job, etc. 0.98

00:16:53.400 But what they don't want is transsexuals, women being too nasty, I guess is the word from the Trump era. 1.00

00:17:03.700 They want their patriotism. 0.99

00:17:05.860 They want their flag waving.

00:17:07.440 They want their NFL football and their apple pie.

00:17:11.280 It goes on and on.

00:17:12.140 You know what I'm talking about.

00:17:13.080 That is the median voter.

00:17:18.020 And so white nationalism plays a role in politics right now. 0.99

00:17:24.060 It's wrong to say that it is, you know, it's irrelevant or it's unpolitical or it's just downright stupid not to play to that. 0.98

00:17:36.460 That's actually a very powerful motive, this social conservatism. 0.96

00:17:42.020 And in a way, it often just resembles white nationalism.

00:17:45.680 It is pro-patriotism, pro-Christianity to a large degree, maybe a little bit less so now, but I'm not even sure about that.

00:17:55.400 And it's pro-us.

00:17:57.240 We don't like the immigrants. 1.00

00:17:59.600 They're going to take our jobs, etc.

00:18:02.680 In addition to that, white nationalism has played a very important role in Republican politicking after realignment, which occurred, I guess, in the late 60s, was cemented by 1994 with the Republican Revolution, etc.

00:18:24.360 And it's also known as the Southern strategy.

00:18:28.380 We see this with Nixon.

00:18:30.280 We certainly saw it earlier with Goldwater, going hunting where the ducks are.

00:18:36.640 That is, if you're a libertarian, pro-war candidate like Goldwater was, why try to convince people who don't want to hear that?

00:18:46.620 Why not go to the South and win the Deep South on that message?

00:18:50.560 I'm against the Civil Rights Act, period. 0.99

00:18:53.620 And I'm also pro-flag, you know, yes ma'am, get some more apple pie up in this bitch. 1.00

00:19:01.160 That is going to play really well in the South. 0.99

00:19:03.680 That is the Southern strategy, effectively.

00:19:06.520 All of these white Southern Democrats, across generations, moved off that party.

00:19:13.620 And beginning with Goldwater, definitely with Nixon, there's some murkiness in there.

00:19:21.120 You know, Jimmy Carter was the first evangelical Christian president, etc.

00:19:24.860 But by the Reagan era and into the 90s, these white Southern conservatives moved off the Democratic Party and they became firm Republicans.

00:19:36.820 And what's interesting is that from what I can tell, kind of looking back at my own career and looking at history, I think that race realism, that is, you know, people like Jared Taylor or Charles Murray.

00:19:58.060 Although, you know, those are different types of people, but, you know, a lot of tons of similarities, that these types of people and the whole HBD motive was a kind of rationalization or explication of the Southern strategy, which probably was the most successful political strategy of my lifetime, maybe of the last 75 years.

00:20:26.860 So what I mean by that is that, I mean, there's a famous line from Atwater where he said, you know, at one point you could go yell the N-word.

00:20:38.720 He actually used the N-word when he said this.

00:20:40.940 He's like, you could just yell N-word, N-word, N-word.

00:20:43.740 Then you had to be a little more subtle about it.

00:20:45.760 You had to say, well, we're against forced busing or too much integration, etc.

00:20:51.960 And then you can't even talk about that.

00:20:53.940 You've got to talk about, well, we're for Reaganomics and tax cuts and stuff like that.

00:20:58.700 But the underlying message remained.

00:21:03.400 That is winning over whites to the Republican Party effectively on the basis of racism.

00:21:10.880 And as I look back, you know, on my life, I see a lot of this white nationalism as being, in effect, a kind of like idea factory or intensification or, again, explication of what is a implicit political strategy.

00:21:33.720 The Southern strategy, the most successful political strategy of the last 75 years, also the most subtle and the most implicit, tacit.

00:21:42.940 It's what you don't say that gives it its pop.

00:21:46.460 You don't just go out there and yell the N-word.

00:21:49.640 You imply that the Republican Party is the home to whites.

00:21:54.100 And you also imply that a certain kind of race blindness is, in effect, good for whites. 0.83

00:22:03.100 And I think that might very well be true in many cases.

00:22:07.200 You see this even today in a lot of the Ron DeSantis stuff or the critical race theory outrage. 0.96

00:22:14.180 That was all very, very silly.

00:22:17.220 Critical race theory is not being taught in lower school. 0.85

00:22:21.280 It's barely being taught in graduate school, to be honest.

00:22:25.000 Anyway, but we know what they're talking about.

00:22:30.020 They're talking about the whole left in general.

00:22:32.240 They're talking about a kind of anti-white animus that is motivating these institutions, animating these institutions.

00:22:39.320 And if we could just get away from race, everything would be fine. 0.99

00:22:44.780 And it's almost as if they think reverse racism is almost kind of worse than the good old-fashioned white racism.

00:22:54.760 I don't know.

00:22:55.980 So these things have been very powerful.

00:22:58.600 And HBD is not a fringe thing.

00:23:02.820 I mean, it is in a way, but it's actually highly integrated with Republican electioneering.

00:23:11.000 And it still is.

00:23:13.080 And it probably will be for another decade or two.

00:23:18.500 But these people like to say that they hate the Republican Party and they are post-political.

00:23:27.180 They just care about the white race or whatever.

00:23:30.000 I am skeptical of that.

00:23:32.420 And I find that they are all, at the end of the day, fans of the Republican Party.

00:23:40.000 They just say the quiet part out loud.

00:23:42.260 And they probably say it too loudly, maybe for comfort.

00:23:46.400 But that is what they are doing.

00:23:49.020 They aren't actually finding a third way or a new path.

00:23:53.840 It isn't ultimately about, you know, Western civilization or the white race. 0.56

00:24:00.120 It's kind of, at the end of the day, an intellectual hotbox for justifying the Republican Party.

00:24:08.460 Let me read on here, and I'll probably, you know, go on some more digressions.

00:24:17.480 But I hope this is interesting.

00:24:19.820 The only short...

00:24:21.180 This is Bronze Age pervert again. 1.00

00:24:23.360 The only solution in the short run is race blindness, stopping reversing all racialization of politics and society.

00:24:32.360 This isn't my preference, you know, because he's such a badass, by the way.

00:24:37.100 But a statement of fact.

00:24:39.240 The HBD position is an impossibility politically and culturally today.

00:24:44.040 Again, I've already said I basically agree with that.

00:24:47.400 Public hypocrisy is the only way out that will be accepted unless you are ready to go the Nietzsche and Gobernau route.

00:24:54.840 All right, so this is some of his bravery signaling.

00:25:01.700 My only question to BAP would be, are you ready to go the Nietzsche and Gobernau route?

00:25:08.220 Because I don't really see that reading this.

00:25:12.640 It kind of seems like you're cautiously advising conservatives not to talk about human biodiversity too much.

00:25:21.780 So, what is the point?

00:25:27.760 Like, why would you be giving this advice if you are already a, you know, ubermensch of some kind?

00:25:36.760 It's rather odd.

00:25:40.600 But anyway, there's another aspect of this that I think is worth talking about.

00:25:45.920 And that is the Aporia magazine, which is on Substack.

00:25:53.520 And it's, I've read some things from them.

00:25:57.020 Seems good.

00:25:58.620 I haven't interacted with him in a while, but I used to interact with Bo Weingart quite a bit on Twitter.

00:26:05.100 And it's, you know, he seems like a good guy.

00:26:09.620 Okay, I have very little interest in this subject at this point in time because I feel like everything that could conceivably be said has been said.

00:26:27.140 I mean, there's a famous story of someone who worked at the patent office in Washington, D.C.

00:26:34.840 And he said, well, we might need to close this down because everything that could be invented already has been.

00:26:41.360 And that, you know, that was in 1905 or something.

00:26:44.340 I mean, it's probably apocryphal, but you kind of know the type of person who would say that.

00:26:51.120 Or you see the fallacy right there.

00:26:55.540 He said that just before the revolution and the computer and automotives and robotics and et cetera, et cetera.

00:27:04.740 He just couldn't see it because he was thinking in the past.

00:27:08.960 And all the past inventions, yes, have already been invented, but that just shows that he has a lack of imagination.

00:27:16.000 But I do think that this is, in fact, true when it comes to HPD.

00:27:21.760 I don't think that there's much more that really needs to be done on this subject.

00:27:30.940 And it seems like people pursuing it are circling the drain around things that have already been established.

00:27:39.840 But they're presenting themselves as having these bold new ideas.

00:27:45.820 I'm just looking at an article here written by Bo Weingart, The Case for Race Realism, Race is Real and Consequential.

00:27:55.920 That actually seems to be a kind of synopsis of an article that I wrote about 10 years ago now with basically the same subtitle.

00:28:11.720 I remember saying, you know, race is real, race matters, and race is the foundation of identity.

00:28:17.180 Race is real and consequential.

00:28:18.660 Yeah, I mean, all of this stuff has been done.

00:28:22.400 And even when I did it, it was old.

00:28:24.580 I'm not claiming that I'm some pioneer in the subject.

00:28:27.600 I'm definitely not.

00:28:30.160 But it's presented as if, you know, I'm here telling you people what you finally need to recognize.

00:28:40.380 And it's just this rehash of things that are rather tired at this point.

00:28:48.660 I don't know what to say, but they're just reinventing all of these things that have been done before while conspicuously not giving people credit.

00:29:04.100 I actually published a book, and I worked quite diligently on it.

00:29:09.420 It's written by Ed Dutton.

00:29:11.260 I added a lot to it.

00:29:13.720 I'm, you know, not to take anything away from Ed.

00:29:16.080 It's definitely his book, but as editor, I really added a lot to it in structuring it and so on.

00:29:24.360 I commissioned it.

00:29:25.820 It's called Making Sense of Race.

00:29:27.720 It's worth reading.

00:29:29.940 But even while doing it, I was kind of over it.

00:29:34.960 I knew all of this stuff, and it was, you know, presented extremely well by Ed.

00:29:43.880 It's refined.

00:29:46.160 It's updated.

00:29:47.760 But it's really the same fundamental principles.

00:29:52.320 And I don't know, maybe I'm just missing something, but I don't know where this goes from here.

00:30:02.400 And I think it is rather odd, although maybe it's not really that odd, of conservatives now adopting it now that it's in itself fairly inconsequential.

00:30:13.060 In the sense that conservatives are, you know, by their very nature, this backward-looking group of people.

00:30:21.280 And I remember thinking this with the rise of Ann Coulter in the Trump movement.

00:30:30.740 Now, she had had a career for 20 years, but she really became something with Trump.

00:30:36.100 She was the ultimate Trump fan.

00:30:37.380 And she just sounded exactly like stuff that I'd read in V-Dare in circa 2003.

00:30:43.460 You know, if we don't elect Trump, we don't stop immigration now, nothing matters, we won't have a country, or at least we won't recognize it, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:30:54.420 All of that stuff had been said.

00:30:57.100 All of that was just talking points from yesteryear.

00:30:59.460 And as I pointed out in a speech I gave at American Renaissance in 2011, I think, well, it might have been late.

00:31:11.040 It was 2013, but I was referring to data from 2011.

00:31:14.940 The majority of births in the United States are to non-white mothers.

00:31:23.100 Thus, the demographic transition is baked into the cake.

00:31:29.940 There's not much you can really do outside of, I guess, going the full Gobineau or, you know, I don't know.

00:31:39.200 It's weird to associate Nietzsche with this stuff.

00:31:41.260 But anyway, it's baked in the cake.

00:31:44.580 You just have to deal with it.

00:31:45.980 And I actually tried to deal with it in the speech I gave.

00:31:49.740 But it's very odd that people like Ann Coulter adopt all of these things kind of like 20 years after they're no longer relevant.

00:32:02.040 And maybe I keep saying it's odd.

00:32:03.920 It's not odd. 0.68

00:32:04.760 It's what conservatives always do.

00:32:06.380 They quest after a lost cause.

00:32:08.560 The moment something is irrelevant or backwards is the moment they start loving it because, due to their personalities, they're not on the vanguard of anything.

00:32:23.620 That's antithetical to who they are.

00:32:25.620 So they adopt the vanguard 30 years too late.

00:32:29.560 Conservatives oppose MLK and race blindness and the civil rights stuff.

00:32:35.160 And then 20 years on, they, oh, we love it.

00:32:38.220 We invented it, in fact.

00:32:40.500 This is what we're all about.

00:32:43.520 They're just an unbearable group of people, in my opinion.

00:32:49.640 Conservative intellectuals.

00:32:52.240 And, you know, again, I like Bo Weingart.

00:32:56.280 I've never met him personally.

00:32:58.100 Just interacted with him a bit, you know, and I've read him here intellectually.

00:33:03.600 I mean, I like him.

00:33:04.680 He seems like a great guy.

00:33:06.420 And I'm sure all of his stuff is well-written and well-done.

00:33:10.660 But it's just rehashing things that people did previously and, to be honest, not giving them credit for cutting the path.

00:33:25.120 And that is rather intellectually dishonest.

00:33:29.520 Why does this thing exist?

00:33:34.840 You know, you've just invented race realism?

00:33:37.680 This has been going on for decades.

00:33:40.180 Anyway, I won't dwell more on that.

00:33:45.580 Let me try to wrap this up, because I've spoken for over 30 minutes, in a rather rambling, but hopefully enlightening way.

00:33:59.240 So, let's go back to facts and values.

00:34:02.520 Race realism is purely about facts, at its best. 0.98

00:34:07.560 Maybe it's self-serving, but it's ultimately about getting at the hard truth, no matter what it is, whereas values define society.

00:34:20.740 So, thus, you could be a race realist.

00:34:26.980 You could think that race differences are evolutionarily developed.

00:34:33.020 They're pretty hard.

00:34:35.320 You can't change them too much with education or society, etc.

00:34:41.660 And come to conclusions that would infuriate every single race realist. 0.72

00:34:48.520 For example, you could say that, yes, Hispanics have a lower IQ than whites on average. 0.94

00:34:55.680 And thus, we need much more immigration, because we're moving to a service or retail-based society or economy, and we need those 90 IQ people to sell us the products or park our cars, etc.

00:35:14.220 You could easily make that argument.

00:35:16.040 You could also say that, yes, it's true.

00:35:18.160 It's not just the history of slavery.

00:35:20.280 It's actually evolution and their ancestral environment that makes African Americans less intelligent on average. 1.00

00:35:30.500 And thus, we need to dedicate more resources to raising blacks up. 1.00

00:35:39.260 We need to dedicate more resources towards affirmative action. 0.96

00:35:43.740 Because, yeah, they're not quite as good at tests and other things.

00:35:48.140 And maybe they're not as smart to the degree to which that can be measured.

00:35:53.580 But we want a society that reflects our dreams.

00:35:59.320 And thus, we will force it to be if we have to.

00:36:04.240 So, yes, race realism is a kind of double-edged sword.

00:36:09.680 It could easily support libertarianism.

00:36:13.040 It could easily support white nationalism. 0.78

00:36:14.740 It could support conservatism.

00:36:17.840 But it also could be used in a left-wing fashion.

00:36:23.400 Now, it might very well be unlikely.

00:36:27.680 Might not.

00:36:29.120 I mean, it is what it is.

00:36:31.060 My general point is that values drive society and not facts.

00:36:37.500 Feelings don't care about your facts.

00:36:39.760 And thus, the most important thing for anyone who wants to change society, who wants a new world that does adhere to his dreams,

00:36:52.760 is to engage with culture and ideology and, dare I say it, feelings.

00:37:01.980 But no sense.

00:37:02.980 But as you can see those at any court, you can access the cards for us.

00:37:04.580 So here we're going to change the cards now that you can do.

00:37:05.360 Let's try not to hoo or mound the cards.

00:37:07.420 In other words, don't debate for us.

00:37:09.580 Orillas attempts to change the cards.

00:37:11.080 You want a separate card, which is actually a ten-jours.

00:37:13.300 And after book after they even stayed, it makes us Refuge.

00:37:14.760 A husbands in the cards be compact and a charge.

00:37:16.900 So here we'll be able to turn on.

00:37:18.360 And where most уз moments are created by эйas is not a ten- Canvas judge.

00:37:21.140 Now, I start to remember the children of the cards here,

00:37:23.900 whisper FIrl Fore, and I'm a thanks to columns and lá.

00:37:25.780 All the kids have been coping since.

00:37:27.460 達 is not a huge difference.

RadixJournal - January 03, 2024

The Poverty of Race-Realism

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