being white is objectively superior
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>***The Jews***
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> *What explains the extraordinary level of accomplishment among the Ashkenazi Jews who came out of Central and Eastern Europe? Explanations of the causal dynamics vary, but they all start from one indisputable, consistent fact about traditional Jewish life: the extraordinarily high value attached to learning. Here traditional Jewish life: the extraordinarily high value attached to learning. Here is a senior official of Russian-controlled Poland writing of Polish Jews in 1818:*
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>> *Almost every one of their families hires a tutor to teach its children…. We [Gentiles] do not have more than 868 schools in towns and villages and 27,985 pupils in all. They probably have the same number of pupils because their entire population studies. Girls too can read, even the girls of the poorest families. Every family, be it in the most modest circumstances, buys books, because there will be at least ten books in every household. Most of those inhabiting the huts in [Gentile] villages have only recently heard of an alphabet book…*
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> *Devotion to learning has been a constant in Jewish life from time out of mind, and it is not surprising to see it associated with a high degree of realized intellectual ability. In the modern era, this intellectual ability has been measured with mental tests of various sorts, including IQ tests. Reports of the mean IQ of Ashkenazi Jews vary, but it is likely to be at least 107 on tests that are normed to have a mean of 100. Note the specification of Ashkenazi Jews, the group that dominates Northern European and American Jewish populations, though I drop the specification in the rest of the discussion. The data for Oriental Jews do not show consistently elevated IQ means.*
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> *Jews also have much larger proportions of people with extremely high IQs. The famous Terman study of high-IQ children in the early 1920s found that 10.5 percent of California children with IQs of 135 or higher were Jewish. This percentage was found even with a definition that did not define any child as Jewish if he had even one non-Jewish grandparent, in an era when many Jewish families hid their ethnic identity, and in an era when many of those who did identify themselves as Jewish used Yiddish as the primary spoken language at home (the children were tested in English). Terman himself believed that the 10.5 percent estimate was a substantial underestimate of Jewish representation. In 1954, a psychologist took advantage of New York City’s universal IQ-testing to identify all 28 children with measured IQs of 170 or higher. Twenty-four of them were Jews.*
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> *These findings about IQ leave us with the chicken and egg problem still unresolved. Do Jews have high IQs because their culture encourages it, or does their culture value learning so highly because Jews are unusually good at learning? With admonishments to remember that we still do not know the answer, it is at least plausible that selection pressures have led to a higher Jewish IQ with some genetic basis. One cause of genetic difference could be the Diaspora and subsequent centuries of anti-Semitism, requiring the Jews to survive in alien and often hostile cultures.*
Muh, Auntie Semitism! Maybe the evil bastards horded wealth over centuries and their elite used it as a means to subjugate the host nations while simultaneously educating their own children with private tutors and sending them to the most prestigious education centers and universities?
> *Those who survived and left behind offspring were statistically likely to be more resourceful than those who did not. Another line of argument for a genetic basis is that status within traditional Jewish communities was closely linked with learning. The young rabbi was one of the most desirable marriage partners for young women, and also, given the intellectual demands of Talmudic study, probably had a high IQ. Others who were not rabbis but known to be learned were also desirable marriage partners. A culture in which the males with the highest IQs have the pick of the women is, over centuries, likely to become a population with a high mean IQ.*
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> *Any effects of cultural traits tending to select for high IQ would have been intensified in the case of the Ashkenazim by a genetic bottleneck that occurred about 500 years ago. As many as 1,500 Ashkenazi families may have lived in Europe as of 14C, but geneticists at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University examining the DNA from large samples of Ashkenazi Jews conclude that many of these family lines subsequently died out and that far fewer, probably about 500, account for all of today’s Ashkenazi Jews. They further believe that this subset was selected for better nutrition and lower infant mortality rates—which in turn suggests both greater wealth and greater ability than among the families who disappeared.*
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> *IQ is by no means the only advantage that might explain the exceptional record of Jewish accomplishment. Jewish family units were strong through 1950, with few children growing up in broken homes and with close networks of grandparents, aunts, and uncles to step in when a parent died. The high expectations placed on Jewish children are the stuff of cultural cliché, as are the sacrifices that American immigrant Jewish parents made to ensure that their children received advanced educations. Once again, however, the chicken and egg problem remains to be resolved. Cultural values can certainly be fostered or undermined by environmental conditions. They also can be fostered or undermined by genetically grounded personality traits. The nature of the mix in the case of Ashkenazi Jews is still as unknown as it is in the case of sex differences, and as likely to become better understood within a few decades.*
He also wrote [Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010](https://www.pdfdrive.com/coming-apart-the-state-of-white-america-1960-2010-d157022685.html)
> *But how much ruin does the American project have left? The historical precedent is Rome. In terms of wealth, military might, and territorial reach, Rome was at its peak under the emperors. But Rome’s initial downward step, five centuries before the eventual fall of the Western Roman Empire, was its loss of the republic when Caesar became the first emperor. Was that loss important? Not in material terms. But for Romans who treasured their republic, it was a tragedy that no amount of imperial splendor could redeem.*
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> *The United States faces a similar prospect: remaining as wealthy and powerful as ever, but leaving its heritage behind. The successor state need not be one ruled by emperors. We may continue to have a President and a Congress and a Supreme Court. But the United States will be just one more in history’s procession of dominant nations. Everything that makes America exceptional will have disappeared.*