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Entry: Neocons and the Left: Know Your Enemies Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/neocons_and_the_left_know_your_enemies#2557 Post contents: Some of you fellows who profess to know so much about genes, intelligence, intellectual achievement, race, ethnicity, and pub-lick skuuls need to try you hand at high-schoolmastering. Then you’d discover 1. Gender and race have nothing to do with intelligence and achievement. Girls do better in high school largely because they are less engrossed with sweaty sports, and partly because boys learn that smart isn’t cute in boys. West Indian Blacks do considerably better than pre-1808 Gringo Blacks (vide #2 infra). Class in itself is also nugatory. The issue of our upper middle class do poorly in pub-lick skuuls, and do rather well in private. In the former, the parent treats the teacher, usually of a lower class, as a servant to abuse when their brat isn’t waited on hand and foot, and thus regard the work done in school as only a credential to hinder supposedly downward mobility, a lesson not lost on the child; such parents only wish high grades for little work, and are the real cause of grade inflation. In private schools, the parent is on the kid’s case if the son or daughter doesn’t do his homework, loafs, or mouths-off to the teacher: “I’m paying all this money, and you’re doing this?” Gringos take seriously only what they pay for. And that leads to ... 2. Ethnicity (which is something in one’s thoughts, not in one’s genes) has much to do with intellectual achievement. Groups working out of the Jewish, Confucian, and Hindu wisdom traditions, and who thus think erudition and smarts are cool and sexy, and uneducated as contemptible, do well in schools, even in our pathetic pub-lick skwells. Groups that value more greatly basketball and football for their male offspring, and dance lessons for their teenaged girls, do not; and will demand their amusements at the taxpayer’s expense. 2. Teach school and you’ll also discover that the biggest fools and madmen have, more often than not, very, very high IQs. And in this judgement I am supported by St. Flannery O’Connor and her boyfriend Nathaniel Hawthorne. High IQs (and atheists) are also much more superstitious. Sent at: 2008 05 15