A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Ok, that makes a lot of things clear.
A United Front for a Sane Foreign Policy? Can Left and Right co operate?
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Ok, that makes a lot of things clear.
RD2003
Got a really fucking shitty attitude
I wouldn't exactly call this a general audience.So questioning its use doesn’t make them precious then?
If someone's writing for a more general audience (assuming that was VirulentNeoCon's intention), it's important they keep that in mind and use appropriate language/terminology, no?
And it sounds like even Marxists have moved on with their language anyway.
But surely whether anybody calls an 'underdeveloped' country backward or uses another, more sanitised term should be the least of anybody's worries at this moment in time?
I would. Certainly one where I'm not the only one unfamiliar with terms previously used in Marxist circles.
Well it's one of the (admittedly many) things that makes me not want to go anywhere near the OP or his ideas with a bargepole.
Idris2002
cavalcade of hubris
In the late 1970s, Richard Lynn of the University of Ulster went south of the border to old Dublin town, where he had invited himself to advise the minister of education on the implications of low Irish IQ measurements.
Essentially, Lynn said, by trying to educate Irish people the Irish government was throwing good money after bad, because they were trying to educate the ineducable. Therefore, he said, things like free second level education in Ireland would have to cease.
It is instructive to consider what would have happened had the Leinster House regime heeded this unsolicited advice.
Essentially, Lynn said, by trying to educate Irish people the Irish government was throwing good money after bad, because they were trying to educate the ineducable. Therefore, he said, things like free second level education in Ireland would have to cease.
It is instructive to consider what would have happened had the Leinster House regime heeded this unsolicited advice.
Carl Steele
Well-Known Member
And Charles Murray's The Bell Curve was really about a policy agenda:
"The actual conclusion of The Bell Curve is that America should stop trying to improve poor kids’ material living standards because doing so encourages poor, low-IQ women to have more children — you read that correctly. It also concludes that the United States should substantially curtail immigration from Latin America and Africa. These are controversial policy recommendations, not banal observations about psychometrics."
The Bell Curve is about policy
Carl Steele
Well-Known Member
I've started listening and it seems really good, a lot of work went into this. Who is Shaun?
hitmouse
Did do all Google car mistakes
He just goes by Shaun: Shaun (YouTuber) - Wikipedia
eta: last time he crossed my radar, it was cos Jimmy Dore and Max Blumenthal were claiming he was funded by the CIA:
Carl Steele
Well-Known Member
I don't know much about Blumenthal (have heard the name) but Dore is a real creep.
hitmouse
Did do all Google car mistakes
Carl Steele
Well-Known Member
Didn't this feature on The Majority Report? Or am I thinking of something else.
And these Grayzone people, Blumenthal and Maté, there are lots of accusations in the air about their relationship to Assad, cover ups for genocide and taking money. Is there any truth to this?
hitmouse
Did do all Google car mistakes
May have done, I don't watch it so can't say either way. And yeah, Grayzone is dodgy as fuck, I can't say whether or not they've taken anyone's money or if they just deny genocide for the fun of it, but a pretty repugnant bunch either way. They get a few mentions over on the Vanessa Beeley thread, mostly from dedicated chronicler rekil.
And on the topic of projection, Blumenthal is possibly my favourite ever example, since he loves to accuse everyone else of being pro-war stooges of the US establishment, as with the Shaun thing above, and then when Hillary Clinton's emails got leaked it turned out she'd regularly been emailing his dad to say what a good boy he is. (Link provided for information purposes only, I don't endorse that site/writer's Zionist slant.)
rekil
to menny cranks
This Charles Davis piece covers the wretched wastrel Blumenthal's knobbery pretty well.
newpol.org
An Inside Look at How Pro-Russia Trolls Got the SPLC to Censor a Commie - New Politics
Fox News and Russian state media are facilitating a popular, “anti-establishment” front against the foreign and domestic enemies of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad, platforming right-wing nationalists alongside those who self-identify as left-wing anti-imperialists.Read more ›
newpol.org
hitmouse
Did do all Google car mistakes
God, I'd briefly forgotten how he keeps going on Tucker Carlson's show every five minutes, which I suppose the OP of this thread must regard as a very good and important political development that must be encouraged at all costs.This Charles Davis piece covers the wretched wastrel Blumenthal's knobbery pretty well.
An Inside Look at How Pro-Russia Trolls Got the SPLC to Censor a Commie - New Politics
Fox News and Russian state media are facilitating a popular, “anti-establishment” front against the foreign and domestic enemies of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad, platforming right-wing nationalists alongside those who self-identify as left-wing anti-imperialists.Read more ›
deeyo
hurled unheard to this world.
intelligence, like 'talent" or 'luck' is hard to define & therefore hard to measure & study.
there was a study published in december, trying to 'help settle an age-old argument' - rocket science or brain surgery...
www.bmj.com
there is some interesting stuff in that:
'School aged children perceive STEM (science technology engineering math) to be “masculine” and “clever.” This perception is heavily influenced by gender, class, and race, and deters females, people from lower socioeconomic groups, and people of non-white ethnicity from pursuing STEM careers'
'In the original GBIT, 90% of Britons scored above average on at least one aspect of intelligence, illustrating the importance of studying multiple domains that make up a concept of intelligence rather than a single measure.'
'Gender socialisation extends to school subjects, with mathematics and physics seen as traditionally more “masculine” disciplines and the concept that men are better equipped to pursue STEM careers with an intrinsically more “systemised” brain.We see this reflected in the predominance of males in our cohorts. Despite these stereotypes, and the higher proportion of males, aerospace engineers and neurosurgeons vary in their cognitive aptitudes as does the general population. '
there was a study published in december, trying to 'help settle an age-old argument' - rocket science or brain surgery...
“It’s not rocket science” and “It’s not brain surgery”—“It’s a walk in the park”: prospective comparative study
Objective To compare cognitive testing scores in neurosurgeons and aerospace engineers to help settle the age old argument of which phrase—“It’s not brain surgery” or “It’s not rocket science”—is most deserved. Design International prospective comparative study. Setting United Kingdom, Europe...
there is some interesting stuff in that:
'School aged children perceive STEM (science technology engineering math) to be “masculine” and “clever.” This perception is heavily influenced by gender, class, and race, and deters females, people from lower socioeconomic groups, and people of non-white ethnicity from pursuing STEM careers'
'In the original GBIT, 90% of Britons scored above average on at least one aspect of intelligence, illustrating the importance of studying multiple domains that make up a concept of intelligence rather than a single measure.'
'Gender socialisation extends to school subjects, with mathematics and physics seen as traditionally more “masculine” disciplines and the concept that men are better equipped to pursue STEM careers with an intrinsically more “systemised” brain.We see this reflected in the predominance of males in our cohorts. Despite these stereotypes, and the higher proportion of males, aerospace engineers and neurosurgeons vary in their cognitive aptitudes as does the general population. '
