3/But I argue: Not only do we not need Jews in order to prove that group disparities can arise from reasons other than structural racism -- Jews aren't even close to the best example!
4/The groups that do the best in America, economically, academically, and professionally speaking, are those that are subject to strong selective immigration pressures.
In fact, Indians do the best!
5/Now, is anyone out there arguing that Indians have mysterious cultural or genetic superpowers that make them rich and smart and blah blah blah?
No!
Everyone knows and agrees that it's a function of selective immigration.
6/In fact, selective immigration is very common throughout the entire U.S. immigration system. It's very predictable. It looks similar in Sweden and Canada too!
7/Selective immigration gives us a very clear, measurable, obvious reason to temper our use of structural racism as a one-size-fits-all explanation for all group disparities -- and to qualify our use of disparate impact as a legal doctrine.
8/Since Jews mostly arrived in American before we had good data, Jewish achievement is sort of "mystery meat" -- we can spend all day arguing back and forth about it.
Selective immigration is a much clearer, simpler, less mysterious case than Jewish achievement. Use it instead!
9/Strangely, in his post, Scott spends a lot of time arguing that Jewish achievement is NOT due to selective immigration.
Why?
If his purpose is really what he says, he should focus on selective immigration, not dismiss it!
10/Anyway, the second reason people care about Jewish achievement is that it gives some Jewish folks a reason to feel group pride.
Personally I think this is silly; YMMV. Either way, it's hardly something *society* should care about.
11/Reason #3: Maybe we can learn cultural lessons from Jewish culture!
I guess this might be slightly interesting, but I'm pretty pessimistic about our ability to extract usable, generalizable cultural insights like this.
12/And Reason #4: Some people are very invested in proving that achievement is driven by genetic factors.
But I don't see any reason for society to care about this. If you want to go looking for magic Jewish smart genes, be my guest! (You almost certainly won't find anything.)
13/Thus, I don't really see much of a reason for society to care about Jewish achievement.
For some people it's an intellectual curiosity or a source of personal pride, but it's just not important at a societal level.
2/Here's an article where Blow explains his basic idea: Black people should move to Southern states in order to amass political power (and to feel more at home):
3/In fact, that has already been happening to a large extent. Black Americans have been moving to the South in fairly substantial numbers over the past couple of decades.
2/This should be a time of techno-optimism, with solar, batteries, vaccines, and more exciting technologies promising to remake our world for the better.
I would like to note that whenever I brought up the lab leak idea, I got reamed for supporting "racism". So because I didn't think my opinion on lab leak was important, I just chose to shut up about it.
Note that I don't think that the "lab leak is racist" thing was an example of wokeness or other deep principle. I think it was a fear-based reaction in the middle of a pandemic -- a reflexive attempt to ward away something that felt scary.
Anyway, I'm STILL getting admonished by people along these lines.
If only the Allies hadn't insisted on escalating after Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, right? If only Neville Chamberlain hadn't been such a warmonger...
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You see, the Allies escalated at VERSAILLES, and Germany was just trying to restore balance...
I think this is correct. Conservative ideas actually have a strong future in America. But if the GOP falls to the temptation to do election-theft or coups, they will give up that advantage.
Coup attempts, especially, will result in utter domination of U.S. institutions by liberals and leftists. The Right will be utterly discredited; institutions like the military will have no choice but to completely embrace the things the Right fears most.
In fact you can already see this happening, with the "woke" military ads and the attempts to root out white supremacists following the 1/6 coup attempt -- which the military knows was a coup attempt no matter how many times rightists screech that it wasn't.
2/Most interviews I do are back-and-forth, but this one was just me sending him a list of 10 questions, so I didn't respond in the interview itself! So here are some responses.
3/I think his libertarian perspective on the pandemic is more right than we'd care to admit (and similar to a point I made here: noahpinion.substack.com/p/climate-chan…).
But it does ignore the incredibly successful Operation Warp Speed, and the extremely fast vaccine rollout under Biden.