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William Meijer
@williameijer
unexamined premises are the truth’s nemesis
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Oct 21 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The First Law of Immigration is that immigrants tend to recreate the conditions they fled, because in some fundamental sense, culture is that which feels good to a group of people and feelings are inherently biological Image ↘️
Oct 20 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Have we found the cause of Suicidal Empathy?

Research shows free, affluent societies maximize guilt, shame, trust, and altruism in women. Across the West, evermore power is given to an increasingly self-loathing, selfless demographic 🧵 Image My insight is based on a 2024 systematic review of the Gender-Equality Paradox. It summarizes 27 meta-analyses and large-scale studies, as well as 54 other studies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…
Sep 21 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Wokism arises from a population unusually selfless, increasingly led by low-testosterone people, made to believe all groups are psychologically identical, and whose women feel evermore guilt, shame, trust, and unmet nurturing needs 🧵 Image “Wokism arises from a population unusually selfless”
Sep 8 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Suicidal Empathy isn’t merely ideological, it’s more fundamentally biopsychosocial.

Research shows free, affluent societies maximize guilt, shame, trust, and altruism in women🧵 Image My insight is based on a recent systematic review of the Gender-Equality Paradox. It summarizes 27 meta-analyses and large-scale studies as well as 54 other studies
Jul 21 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Zero-sum thinking is the belief that gains for one individual or group tend to come at the cost of others. According to the National Bureau of Economic Research (2025), U.S. Black and Hispanic people are more likely to hold that belief. Race durably influences political beliefs Image Full figure with x-axis Image
Jul 4 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Mamdani comes from a culture where lying is normal.

26,000 people from 60 countries were asked how much they believed they had to be selfish [disregard others, cheat, lie, etc.] to get ahead. Indians scored highest Image “The rich are richer than the
poor because they have been more selfish in life than the poor.”

5-point scale from “strongly disagree” (1) to “strongly agree” (5)

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Jun 28 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
“I am begging you to stop debunking the foundation of my leftist beliefs.”

Some countries are rich, others are poor — and average IQ explains most of it Image And the Y-axis is a log scale, the real relationship is exponential! It looks more like this one
Jun 16 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Harvard economist Raj Chetty’s study of 20 million Americans shows that Black men are incarcerated at 3 to 10 times the rate of White men raised in households of similar income. What’s your environmental explanation?🧵 Image Source, original graph and data.

U.S. Census—National Statistics by Parent Income Percentile, Gender, and Race: opportunityinsights.org/data/?geograph…Image
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Jun 15 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Wokeness largely arises from unmarried, childless young women creating and self-selecting into psychosocial environments that validate their heightened tendencies toward guilt, shame, and altruism, while offering a channel to fulfill their otherwise unmet nurturing needs Image The Wokeness frequency distributions come from these items, in this study (n = 5,878): Image
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Jun 9 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
The People Make The Country: How Low-Trust Immigration Turns Cooperation Into Conflict🧵 Image Social trust is the expectation that people will act in ways that are predictable, fair, and aligned with mutual benefit, even in the absence of formal contracts or enforcement mechanisms. It allows large-scale cooperation and leads to more stable, pleasant, and rich societies Image
May 28 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Given the irreversible nature of hybridization, Europe should be designated as an ecological reserve, and East Asia should remain one. The preservation of phenotypic diversity is the default position in ecology🧵 Image 250 years after the start of the Industrial Revolution, the 40 countries with the highest quality of life are still European (38) and East Asian (2). Why is that?

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May 27 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Overheard at a top university

Neuroscience professor to grad student: “We can’t put this in the paper because it suggests there is a biological basis to race.” Professor: “You’re drawing this equivalence between sex differences and race differences… I don’t want this in the paper because it’s problematic.”

Grad student: “But race is also genetic.”

Professor: “East Africans are more genetically distinct from West Africans than from Whites, so race is a flawed concept.”
May 21 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Leftism is a survival strategy for the underclass and the elites who benefit from their dependency. Elite Leftists are thus incentivized to increase the share of underclass, third-world voters to gain power, and they do [1/4] Image
Image For Affluent Wimpy Whites, Leftism serves not a survival but a spiritual purpose—sacrificing the future of civilization for the benefit of others gives meaning to their atheistic, hedonic life. A paradoxically very Christian gesture, without the personal cost [2/4] Image
Apr 15 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Immigration is now associated with lower per capita economic growth (r = -.41), presumably because immigrants now mostly come from low-IQ, low-trust populations.

What you’ve been told is a lie Image Them: “Just be kind!”

Me: “A CEO can be infinitely kind to his employees, but if he keeps hiring the wrong ones, his company will fail—the same is true for countries.”
Apr 9 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Are racial differences in serious crimes solely due to socioeconomics? No.

Black men are incarcerated at 3 to 10 times the rate of White men from equally wealthy households🧵 Image Data is from Harvard economist Raj Chetty's study of 20 million Americans from adolescence to adulthood.

Table 1: National Statistics by Parent Income Percentile, Gender, and Race
opportunityinsights.org/data/?geograph…
Mar 11 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Have we found the cause of Suicidal Empathy?

Research shows free, affluent societies maximize guilt, shame, and altruism in women. In the West, evermore power is given to an increasingly self-loathing, selfless demographic. 🧵Image This insight comes from a recent systematic review on the Gender Equality Paradox. It summarizes 27 meta-analyses and large-scale studies as well as 54 other studies.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…
Jan 29 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
New data 🚨

In Austria 🇦🇹, Belgium 🇧🇪, Finland 🇫🇮, France 🇫🇷, Greece 🇬🇷, Ireland 🇮🇪, Italy 🇮🇹, and Sweden 🇸🇪, non-EU immigrants are a net fiscal drain. 🧵 Image
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Jan 28 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Why are leftists more depressed?
Negative thoughts about the self, the world, and the future are the cognitive causes of depression. Leftism promotes all three. 🧵 Image Examples:
The self: "I'm ashamed of being white."
The world: "We live in an oppressive patriarchy."
The future: "Climate change will kill us and our planet."