RIGHT-REALISM ROCKS ON
After weeks of uncertainty for fans, ex-Torygraph Daft-Dave-doubting columnist Simon Heffer re-surfaced in the Daily Mail (17 viii) – properly appreciating that the lunatic multiculti overspending of Clinton, Bush, Blair and Brown – with Europe’s PIGS in close tow -- was only likely to be solved by Germany re-assuming its historic responsibility for the Continent, i.e. creating what SH called a little tactlessly, but plainly truthfully, a Fourth Reich.
PAEDOHYSTERIA FUELLED RIOTS
Hats off to the Sunday Times’ Jenni Russell (21 viii) (2011 winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Journalism; insider with both Daft Dave and Red Ed)! Jenni had the most plausible story of how schools had become so soulless that low-grade (Bleck) youth, already deprived of a father and not uncommonly of a (pill-swallowing) mother, could find no consolation with their peecee-socialist-bureaucrat teachers; so youf joined gangs for the only experience of bonding, belonging, approval and identity that they were likely to get.
“The hysteria over paedophilia has made adults wary of interacting with the next generation. ....Many schools have policies that forbid staff to have personal conversation with a child or to be alone with them. ....On buses and trains, grown-ups avoid eye contact with smiling or talkative toddlers. ....We leave children cold and isolated, in poor schools and neighbourhoods {the products of egalitarianism and welfare dependency}, without skills, bridges out or hope. Then we are shocked and dismayed when they huddle together in the gangs that offer them identity, pride, camaraderie, purpose and at least the possibility of getting hold of some of the stuff that we all want.”
{Anything Jenni left out? Yes (as said previously), the awesome power given to children to break instantaneously the career of any teacher or other unguardedly kindly adult by an un-evidenced accusation of ‘abuse.’}
AMERICA’S MATH PROBLEM
America’s ‘child poverty problem’ did not explain its children’s relatively low math scores, said a report from Harvard’s Program on Education Policy and Governance (Yahoo! News, 22 viii). In 2009, about 32% of American schoolkids scored what researchers termed “proficient” on the PISA, which placed the USA a lamentable 32nd out of 65 countries. By contrast, 50% or more of pupils in Korea, Finland, Switzerland, Japan, Canada and the Netherlands scored as proficient.
The Harvard researchers found that poverty did not seem a big factor in how Americans scored in math. When the researchers just looked at students with at least one college-educated parent, a good indicator that a child was above the ‘poverty line’ (and thereby excluding many Black children), 44% were proficient in math, still trailing significantly behind students in 13 countries.
Race was the explanation: 41% of White students overall scored as proficient in math (about 10 percent of White children living in poverty); by contrast, merely 11% percent of Black students and 15% of Hispanic students scored as proficient.
ACADEMIC COWARDICE re PEECEE ADMITTED
In an astonishing display of state-funded academic uselessness, the de facto inheritor of the London School (of differential psychology), Steven Pinker (who, as a Jew, had been occasionally happy enough to explain to other Jews (at meetings in Zoo Yawk) that Jews were genetically brighter than Gentiles), confessed to the BBC (World Service, 23 viii, 11:25am) that evolution of human brain size and intelligence in the past 15,000 years could not be discussed, let alone examined by scholars, since to do so would raise questions of racial differences and eugenics and quickly get discussants booted out of their sinecures.
{That brain size had been found correlated at around .35 with IQ over the previous forty years – and even higher in work by my own Ph.D. student, Vincent Egan – was not thought worth mentioning by the great philosophe.)
*Harvard; soon to join London’s ‘New College of the Humanities’, headed by modewate Grauniadista lefty ‘uman-wights-luvin’ Antonyblair Graybeard.
LONDON SCHOOL COMES OUT AGAINST GRADE SLUMPING
Emeritus Professor Richard Lynn scored in the Times (22 viii) as follows.
Sir: A-level grades announced this week have improved for the twenty-ninth consecutive year.
Yet there have been three studies in which the same IQ test has been administered to representative samples of children at two points in time over this period, and all three have found that the intelligence of school children has declined.
Intelligence is a major determinant of performance in examinations. It is therefore impossible that when the IQ of the nation’s children has been declining, performance in examinations can have increased. The conclusion to be drawn is that the annual increases in A-level grades do not reflect genuine improvement in performance, but are attributable to grade inflation, as many have suspected.
Grade inflation is inevitable because of the existence of several A-level boards that are in competition with one another for students. Each A-level board has to retain or preferably increase the numbers of candidates taking its examinations, so to do this it relaxes its standards and makes good grades easier to obtain. If it did not do so, it would go out of business.
There are two possible solutions to this problem. The first is to have only one A level board, which would not be exposed to this pressure. The second is to impose on the examination boards fixed proportions of each grade, e.g. 5 per cent A*, 10 percent A, and so forth.
Richard Lynn
I replied:
Thanks, Richard! A succinct and surely correct analysis, as readers expect from you (though it’s the first I heard of IQ going down and some poor devils will doubtless persist in thinking that ‘good teaching’* is meant to circumvent natural handicaps).
*This dubious feat was of course achieved by teachers’ use of rote learning and the pretty direct supply of exam answers to ‘pupils’, not requiring IQ – as was pointed out by Times correspondent Dr S.J.Dobson, 23 viii, the good doctor noting that the main point of thus boosting university entrance was to keep 250K p.a.English ‘students’ off the dole numbers.
SOCIALIST VOTE-SUCKERS
Labour spent £2.3M per day during its time in office ‘processing’ asylum-seeking applications, 75% of which were accepted (Sun, 24 viii) – a fine vote-getting scheme for illiterates from all over the world as well as for baseball-cap-wearing Labour-appointed ‘civil servants’! {Not that Britain’s ‘compassionate Conservatives’ managed a squeak!}
WILLIAM MCDOUGALL SUPPORTED
The idea that Germany (together with other Nordic/Alpinic) countries should solve the eurozone’s problems by pulling out and leaving the non-Protestant PIGS to France (see previous – yes, you read it here first) achieved more significant support from Times economic guru Anatole Kalensky who wrote (24 viii): “The liberation of Libya succeeded after Germany opted out of joining the Nato-led intervention. Why shouldn’t the same be true of the single currency?”
QUEEN’S TO SOLVE HOUSE OF LORDS PROB?
As debate of Queensman Vernon Bogdanor’s conservative proposals to keep the current Westminster Upper House persisted (Times, 24 viii, p. 27), my own longstanding preference for letting the Lords represent the powers in the land, i.e. big organizations (including firms, Trade Unions, even football clubs), preferably in accordance with their taxpaying, achieved a modicum of support (correspondent David Mason).
RICHARD LYNN vs LEPRECHAUNS
Following up their inconclusive criticisms of Emeritus Professor Lynn’s racial hereditarianism (see previous, xi 2009), Jelte Wicherts fired another volley (this time apparently during an ISSID conference, viii) to the effect that even Lynn’s basic estimates of national IQ were flawed.
Unfortunately, nitpicking criticisms that Lynn’s great sweep of studies (from around 1980) involved many departures from ideal representative sampling, required selection so as to ensure methodological comparability and might have underestimated IQs in African countries after nutritional improvements by 2000 were well known – not least to Lynn himself – and did nothing to dent the London School thesis that racial IQ differences were ordered E. Asian > White >>> Black.
ROMA RISING
Not content to leave all the fun of flash mobs to the Black denizens of Tottenham (q.v.) or Philthadelphia, or to indulge the multiculti-loving bureaucrats of the EU, Roma gypsies near Dresden laid on two unprovoked late-night street attacks on outnumbered groups of Czech males, beating their victims with telescope-style sticks (handy for carrying) while screaming “White bastards!” in the towns of Rumburk and Novy Bor (Deutsche Welle, 24 viii).
KARACHI CLASHES ESCALATE
Murderous Mueslis nudged up the rate of killing in Karachi (q.v.) to 100 per week as ethnic Urdu-speakers (the majority in Pakiland’s gross southern megacity, the product of two generations of dysgenics) battled with ethnic Pashto-speakers – the chaos allowing criminal gangs, Islamofascists and Taleban fighters to thrive (Times, 25 viii).
SEVEN KIDS DIED IN HOUSE FIRE
In what was perhaps Australia’s worst-ever urban fire disaster, seven children and a woman from two families perished, though three men made a lucky escape (Times, 25 viii). In case you asked, the families were from Tonga and Samoa.
RACE REALISM ON WIKIPEDIA
It transpired that ‘race realism’ (the congenial term for ‘scientific racism’, invented in Edinburgh) had its own entry in the internet encyclopedia {though modifying the entry required more obsessionality than I could be bothered with}:
Individuals today (2011)
· Chris Brand - Psychological and psychometric researcher, author of 'The g Factor: General Intelligence and its Implications' (Wiley DePublisher, 1996/2000)[1]
· David Duke - White nationalist,author of 'My Awakening' (1998, Free Speech Press), politician[2]
· Nick Griffin - leader, British National Party
· Arthur Jensen -- author of 'Bias in Mental Testing' (1980, Free Press), 'Straight Talk about Mental Tests (1981, Free Press) and 'The g Factor: the Science of Mental Ability' (Praeger, 1998)
· Lee Kuan Yew - First Prime Minister of Singapore, current Minister Mentor of Singapore[3]
· Michael Levin - Philosophy professor at City University of New York[4]
· Richard Lynn - psychometrician-psychologist, co-author of 'IQ and the Wealth of Nations' (Praeger, 2002)
· Charles Murray - Columnist of the American Enterprise Institute, co-author of 'The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life' (1994, Free Press) [5]
· J. Philippe Rushton - author of 'Race, Evolution & Behavior' (1995, Transaction), psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario[6]
· Steve Sailer - American writer for VDARE[7]
· Benjamin Netanyahu - Prime Minister of Israel
· Jared Taylor - editor, American Renaissance[8]
‘RACIST’ HISTORIAN BLASTS PEECEE ‘WITCH-FINDERS’
Top British historian Dr David Starkey found himself castigated for racism by 102 academics (in Times Higher, 25 viii) (and by hundreds of callers to the BBC) after he wrote (of the Tottenham-led riots) that ‘chavs [low-life youf] had become Black’ (q.v.). It was not entirely clear what Starkey meant. Were White chavs adopting Black culture? Or were Black youf adopting White chav culture?
No matter! The 102 (unheard-of) academics (including some from the LSE, where Starkey had lectured for fifteen years) were sure that Starkey was disgraceful and out of his depth and should never again be invited on to the Beeb (where he regularly starred in the weekly discussion programme ‘The Moral Maze’) except to talk about his own ‘area of expertise’ (the inner household of Henry VIII).
And Starkey replied with equal decisiveness (Daily Telegraph, 26 viii, p.15): “The subject of race has become unmentionable, by whites at any rate. And any breach has been punished by ostracism and worse. As the hysterical reaction to my remarks shows, the witch-finders already have their sights on me.”
In response to Starkey’s expressed agreement with some of the views of Enoch Powell, a fine defence of Powell’s scholarship and libertarianism was provided by the Director of the Libertarian Alliance, Dr Sean Gabb, who wrote (26 viii): “A hundred years from now, no one will remember the corrupt nonentities who are now using Enoch Powell as a stick for beating David Starkey. Equally, a hundred years from now, men will still be reading Enoch Powell for pleasure and instruction.”
And the [quarter-] Black Ben Douglas sided with Starkey’s view that Blacks should learn to speak recognizable English (Daily Mail, 21 viii). Another defence of Powell and his political incorrectness had been provided by me in Occidental Quarterly, 2001. My own ‘ostracism and worse’ (by Edinburgh University, for racism, sexism, eugenicism and insufficient paedohysteria) had been summarized in Academic Freedom and the Law (Eric Barendt, 2010).
REVOLUTION?
Though the ‘Arab Spring’ had plunged the Muddle East into mega-thousand deaths and mad-Muesli hands, the West’s political and journalistic idealists, lacking both Christianity and the slightest knowledge of history or philosophy, declined to recognize how the great revolutions of England (1640), France (1789), Russia (1917) and Prussia oops Germany (1920) had ended. Instead, Western MSM preferred to put its weight behind young Libyan machine-gun-waving looters in pick-up trucks, just as if they were from unjustly done-down Tottenham....
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Comments? Email Chris Brand. -- CV for Chris Brand. -- Some history.
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