Whiny Minorities Offer Stupid Theories About Smart Kids
Dec 14th, 2012 by Unamused
Race and education are in the news again. No, not the nationwide racial violence and general mayhem caused by non-Asian minority (NAM) students. Just another made-up conspiracy theory blaming mythical white “racists” for everyone else’s failure.
From the Washington Post:
The disproportionately low number of black and Latino students admitted to Fairfax County’s prestigious Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology — long a subject of debate — has triggered a federal civil rights complaint.
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The complaint alleges that black and Latino students, as well as students with disabilities, are being shut out of Thomas Jefferson long before they apply in eighth grade because of Fairfax County Public Schools’ systematic failure to identify them for gifted education programs that begin in elementary school.
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Together, black and Latino students account for about 4 percent of the 480 students admitted to next year’s freshman class at Thomas Jefferson, or TJ. The two groups make up 32 percent of the county’s student population.
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The complaint also faults the TJ admissions process itself for putting some students at a disadvantage.
One example, the complaint says, is the “student information sheet” used to assess a teen’s motivation and commitment to math and science education. A question asks students to “Describe in detail your most important out-of-school or after-school activity or interest.”
“For many black and Latino students, especially those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds,” the complaint says, “their most significant after school activity may well be babysitting their younger siblings while their parents work.”
Sure, they could be “babysitting their younger siblings while their parents work.” Or selling drugs while their parents collect welfare checks. Or vice versa. Or whatever.
Interestingly, the complaint chose not to emphasize (and the Post chose not to even mention) that Asians make up 20 percent of the county’s student population, but 64.2 percent of next year’s freshman class at TJ.
Indeed, Jared Taylor has calculated (from the figures cited in the complaint) that “whites are 4.8 times more likely than Hispanics to be admitted to TJ, and are 4.2 times more likely than blacks. Asians, however, are 5.4 times more likely than whites to be admitted” — bringing the standard “white privilege” narrative to a screeching halt. Those pesky Asians!
Of course, the complaint — filed with the Department of Education by the Fairfax chapter of the NAACP (National Association of We’re Black So Give Us Free Goodies or We’ll Burn Your Cities Down) and the “Coalition of The Silence,” a bizarrely named “advocacy group led by former county school board member Tina Hone” — is nothing more than the usual NAM griping based on what I call the fundamental fallacy of race relations (which happens to also be a typically insane Supreme Court ruling): that “disparate impact” (i.e., that NAMs fail, always and everywhere) somehow implies “disparate treatment” (i.e., white people are evil, die white man die, quick steal his shoes).
The reasoning is invalid because, of course, contrary to Marxist theory, the races of man were not created equal. Of course, if white people were allowed to notice that, white guilt would fade away and the handouts would dry up. It is therefore essential to our radical, anti-white elites that reality be ruled inadmissible and facts reclassified as “hate speech” on the compelling grounds of das racis’, you racis’, e’rybody racis’ all up in he’e:
“Look at any study of giftedness. It is equally distributed across humanity. God did not change that rule when he got to Fairfax County,” says former school board member Tina Hone.
To which one can only reply: Just how f*&%$#@ stupid are you, Miss Hone? One really would like to know.
Because if one actually took this fruitcake’s advice and looked at any study of giftedness, any study at all (e.g., Chuck’s illuminating graph from Gifted Child Quarterly), one would discover that high intelligence is about as far from being “equally distributed across humanity” as a crackhead is from winning a Fields Medal — though of course one cannot discount the possibility of a Nobel Peace Prize.
As the reader is no doubt well aware (zzz), race differences in intelligence guarantee that in any large population (e.g., the school-age children of Fairfax County), above any given threshold of intelligence (e.g., giftedness, often defined as an IQ of 130), there will be proportionally more Asians than whites, and more whites than either Hispanics or blacks. This hate-fact — the existence of so-called IQ gaps — is not in dispute (indeed, it is perfectly obvious from the state of our planet, now and at any other point in recorded history), and neither is our ability to reliably measure intelligence with IQ tests.
But as I say, in the interests of maintaining the “diversity racket” (i.e., free goodies for whiny minorities set to an endless chorus of kill whitey and take his stuff yo), such hateful hatred must be ushered into the gas chambers of political correctness.
I’m sorry, that was offensive. I meant to say the alleged gas chambers.
Since the perpetrators of that never-ending scam (“reparations,” “affirmative action,” “Civil Rights,” “End Apartheid,” etc., etc.), namely the cultural Marxists (or Progressives as they’ve styled themselves of late), are in charge of the government, the media, and the education system (three sides to the same polygon), egalitarian nonsense of the Tina Hone “Look at Any Study!!!” school is ubiquitous in all three.
Choosing an example at random, iGifted School, the well staffed “Online Debate & Math Club For Gifted Students,” declares:
Modern research indicates that the gifted are equally distributed among all races, sexes and economic segments of society.
At once, without so much as a glance at the “modern research,” we know this is wrong. “All economic segments of society”? If intelligence is heritable at all (it’s quite heritable, as every parent ought to know) and correlates at all with income (it correlates quite well with both income and educational attainment, as every college graduate ought to know), then giftedness will not be equally distributed “among all economic segments of society,” which indeed it isn’t. It is also, of course, not “equally distributed among all races.”
The National Opportunity to Learn Campaign proclaims:
Identification of gifted and talented students is comparative within similar age groups, experience and environments, that is, every group of students — rich, poor, Black, White, those with highly educated parents, those whose parents are not highly educated — should have approximately equal proportions of gifted and talented students.
“Identification… is comparative”? I’m fairly certain that doesn’t actually mean anything. I have already noted that “those with highly educated parents” will have a higher proportion of gifted students than “those whose parents are not highly educated” — whether they “should” or not — because intelligence is heritable and correlates with educational attainment.
TeachingExpertise.com insists:
Ability is evenly distributed within the population; achievement is not.
“Progressives” don’t just believe demonstrably false claims — like giftedness is equally distributed across humanity, let alone any study will show you that giftedness is equally distributed across humanity — that can be debunked in under a minute by anyone with a working Internet connection. They have actually built their entire belief system/political ideology/mass psychosis upon that stinking heap of garbage. The Left has made axioms of fairy tales.
Dick Kantenberger (“Education, Giftedness, Gifted and Talented Education, Senior Issues”) hallucinates (together with EducationNews.org):
it has been known for over 200 years that potential giftedness is equally distributed among all races and cultures.
I must admit I was unable to imagine how even a Marxist education theorist (redundant, I know) could convince himself that this particular falsehood “has been known for over 200 years,” until I read this by the same author:
If we do not want to believe what Thomas Jefferson wrote about this (see part 2) in 1772, the modern research indicates that the gifted are equally distributed among all races, sexes and economic segments of society.
Oh, I see. It is because “we do not want to believe what Thomas Jefferson” — a WHITE MAN who had SLAVES and HATED WOMEN and is from THE SAME RACE AS HITLER — wrote about giftedness (?) in 1772, which was indeed over 200 years ago.
I leave it to the reader to wade through “Race, Class, and Whiteness in Gifted and Talented Identification: A Case Study” (Berkeley Review of Education), by far the most sophisticated and therefore infuriating and depressing example I have found of a stupid theory about smart kids. It so takes for granted its impossible assumptions about race and intelligence, it doesn’t bother even to state them.
No, on second thought, I take that back: a brief excerpt should suffice for even the most masochistic of readers.
Our critique of these practices is based on Cheryl Harris’ (1993) argument that in the American legal system, and broadly in the culture, “whiteness” is a form of property that perpetuates inequality [...] dating back to the ownership of persons as slaves and the usurpation of Native American land rights. [...]
Harris (1993) argues that because of their “racial and cultural otherness,” Native Americans and blacks were unable to assert rights in land and their very selves (p. 1721). [...]
Returning to the origin of white property rights, Harris (1993) points out that whites profited from the labor of slaves and the use of land that was not theirs. Similarly, a disproportionate number of white students identified as “gifted” claim educational opportunities mandated by law and paid for by state funds.
Translation: “Die, white man. Just f*&%$#@ die” (Harris, 1993).
Appendix
It is worth pointing out that nine years ago, on the basis of racist white supremacist Nazi trickery, also known as statistics, a law professor, Lloyd Cohen, “filed a federal civil rights complaint alleging racial discrimination in admissions”:
Cohen contended that it was white students who were losing out, the deck stacked against them as the school system sought to boost black enrollment at the high-flying school.
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Cohen’s complaint was distilled from a long article he wrote in 2003 for the Albany Law Review, in which he used statistical tools and other information to analyze TJ admissions decisions made in 2002.
That year, 11 black students made it into a pool of about 800 semifinalists based on the strength of their grades and scores on a math admissions test. Ten of them — including some who scored lower than white students who were rejected — were admitted after teacher recommendations and essays were considered.
According to Cohen’s analysis, black students were substantially more likely to be admitted than white students with similar credentials. Hispanic and Asian students also had an advantage over their white counterparts, he wrote, although a smaller one.
“The true purpose of the current admissions regime is to engage in invidious racial discrimination,” Cohen wrote.
Well, never mind that. Don’t you know there are white students profiting from the labors of gifted black slaves and stealing all the land from genius Indians?
… Or something.
A brave, well-written article. Thanx for the truth.
No set of footnotes for an article like this would be complete without references to La Griffe du Lion’s essay on the color of meritocracy and the interpretation of racial and ethnic gaps in standardized testing. If I can embed two graphs from the latter, they’ll appear below:
u can not has graf
u can has fuzzy
It’s been a while since you posted, I was worried the hate submarine had sprung a leak. Good to have you back.
Ferrets suck, what happened to the kittens?
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But… but… I get a warm, fuzzy feeling from graphs that are all racist and shit.
Egalitarianism is like DARE–you lie to people for their own good, and then act surprised when they do what you feared they would when they find out the truth.
The sad thing is I think many people actually believe this stuff. They are laboring under a mass hallucination, even as they act as if these hatefacts are true in day-to-day life.
I was just asking, ‘Who do I have to fuck to see a new post around here?”
Welcome back, you slacker.
We do not know what goes on behind closed doors when an admissions committee gets down to work. At Harvard, the admissions process is further complicated by large numbers of “legacy students” among the applicants. These are children of alumni who through preference are admitted at 3 to 4 times the rate of other applicants. Without more information, we forgo more detailed analysis.
In other words, Sasha and Malia could be retards, but they are getting accepted regardless.
You’ve been slacking UP. We may have to withhold your ferrets and kittens until you post more like this article! :)
It has been known for over 200 years that potential giftedness is equally distributed among all races and cultures.
And this has been demonstrated for these past two centuries by all the inventions and scientific advances which have come out of sub-Saharan Africa…exactly how? Or 200 years of giftedness in Haiti has produced…precisely what? And half a century of black studies in Detroit’s schools have created…which industries and cultural landmarks?
If we do not want to believe what Thomas Jefferson wrote about this (see part 2) in 1772, the modern research indicates that the gifted are equally distributed among all races, sexes and economic segments of society.
You mean modern researchers like Phil Rushton and William Shockley? The evidence, of course, is that IQ is a product to a large extent of genetic factors. And these group via race. But since this reality is not in line with prevailing educational ideology, it must be suppressed. And if this is the case throughout the educational bureaucracy, then the system is in a world of hurt. And so is the country.
Cultural Marxists perceive the brain as a metaphysical entity that is not controlled by genetics and not composed of cell bodies, neurons, axons, neurotransmitters, etc.
If the brain were a physical entity, Egalitarians might also have to prove that ability to run fast is evenly distributed among the sexes, races, ages and social classes. They could prove this if they wanted, and with sufficient rigor that graphs would be unnecessary.
Your posts are too infrequent, Unamused, and that is probably because the Muse is not with you often enough, which is to say that you are Unamused. Anyway, welcome back. I’d heard that Heidi Beirich has new depth charges and better patterns, and I had feared the worst.
Great post. Witty and biting.
http://www.ssristories.com/index.php
Very long list of killers and the prescription drugs they were taking. Wait for it to load.
Choosing the chosen people:
Whining about under-representation? Pfffffft. The quintessential “whiny minority” whines about not being over-represented enough.
thanks Tanstaafl
“If intelligence is heritable at all (it’s quite heritable, as every parent ought to know)”
I’m unsure about this part. Wouldn’t parents be noticing the inheritance of intelligence rather than the heritability? I thought heritability has nothing to do with individuals or families but entire populations.
A brilliant, irrefutable article, Mr. Unamused, for all the good that will do you. The one questionable part: “contrary to Marxist theory, the races of man were not created equal.” Whatever “cultural Marxists” may claim today, equality of the races was by no means the position of their master. Karl Marx certainly believed that Negroes were inferior to whites. He even freely used the term “nigger,” for instance in so characterizing his (Jewish) political enemy, Ferdinand Lassalle.
‘Wouldn’t parents be noticing the inheritance of intelligence rather than the heritability?’
Yes. You should write these articles instead of me. I’m too old for this shit.
‘Whatever “cultural Marxists” may claim today, equality of the races was by no means the position of their master.’
Yes. You too should write instead of me.
otoh, unamused should write instead of about 8 gazillion of us, especially instead of i. i mean me. whatever. instead of us:)
Off topic – a happy and peaceful Christmas to you, Unamused, and to all the regular readers. Thanks for your efforts.
Merry Christmas!!!
My T-shirt says:
“I keep going to Unamusement Park Blog and all I got was this Stupid Ferret”.
venite adoremus…and a white christmas to you and yours
I’d like to wish all the White (and Jewish) people a White Christmas.
…That is, unless you feel like including the Dutch Sinterklaas’s traditional companion, Zwarte Piete, (preferably in the Dutch tradition of a white person dressing up in blackface to play him) to spread shock and horror amongst your politically correct neighbors. You can see politically incorrect versions of him everywhere in the Netherlands in the lead-up to Christmas with his unique brand of “gibs-you-dat”:
https://www.google.com/search?q=zwarte+piet&safe=off&tbm=isch
BTW, here’s the link for the racist Karl Marx letter:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1862/letters/62_07_30a.htm
“Wouldn’t parents be noticing the inheritance of intelligence rather than the heritability? I thought heritability has nothing to do with individuals or families but entire populations.”
Populations are made out of individuals (and families). And heritability is all about inheritance. I think parents can observe heritability, even if they can’t put an exact figure on it.
Supposing the schools did consider babysitting a qualification for advanced education programs (and why not? Much of modern liberal education is little more than babysitting!). Anyway, since those students would lack the study disciplines of their classmates who were busy cracking the books, they’d fall behind. At which point “educators” would start throwing tantrums about “institutional racism” or whatever holding them back. And then we would see another good school reduced to the lowest common denominator.
It really comes down to the ideological brainlock under which too many people labor in this country. Until enough people take the Red Pill, things will continue to spiral downwards.
And then they ask why preppers are stockpiling ammo and tinned corn.
“white students profiting from the labors of gifted black slaves and stealing all the land from genius Indians”
Thanks for this turn of phrase, “genius Indians”. I have been using this in conversation, it works great for deprogramming.
On a more serious note, I have been considering that we need to begin a “NIGGERS RAUS!” campaign. Negroes may stay, but NIGGERS RAUS! American cities are plagued by niggers, we need to admit this fact.
Now, the Negroes can stay. There must be a compromise, to kick all of the Africans out WILL fail, and WILL NOT be accepted. See here the logic:
In these past three decades, we gave the “African-Americans” a chance to escape their plight, a chance to show themselves for who they would really be as freedmen. Many “African-Americans” misunderstood this offer, and took it as license to revert to savagery. Those who were moderately prosperous, ran small-businesses, went to church, kept to their own business- in other words the Negroes – they can stay. By Negroes, I mean the 1960′s kind of of Negroes, before there were “Blacks”. We gave those Blacks who wanted the chance to join civilization a chance to do so, the rest need to go!
This means: Bring back banishment and exile, establish penal colonies in Africa.
African-Americans who run afoul of our law WILL be returned to the first part of their hyphenated identity.
Most of the South Side of Chicago will need to be BANISHED from the city. All African-Americans with a criminal record OUT!! Any Negroes that resist the forcible removal of their niggers brethren will be shipped out along with the niggers.
If the negroes REFUSE to be separated from their niggers “brothers”, they will have to leave with them.
The time has come, for us to behave as any normal civilization, and BANISH and exile career criminals out of our cities.
NIGGERS RAUS!
This is what is best for the Negro, to split himself from the niggers who hold him and US back.
“above any given threshold of intelligence (e.g., giftedness, often defined as an IQ of 130), there will be proportionally more Asians than whites, and more whites than either Hispanics or blacks.”
Not in Minnesota. As Steve Sailer likes to point out, we have the highest (white) average I.Q. in the nation. Thus, in this state, the white children always outperform the asians–and everyone else. Which has the do-gooders wringing their hands as the gap just keeps widening year after year. It’s that wondrous Nordic gene pool.
plus MN has the dumbest of the asians: the dreaded hmongs! btw, it’s about time for unamused’s monthly posting.
Nude negro law. It’s the only way now. They leave us no other option.
Lack of honesty is one of the core features of the psychopathic personality, and one measure of this characteristic is the default rates on student loans. About half of American college students take out loans but not all graduates repay them. The 1987 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study consisting of 6,338 cases reports default rates as follows: whites—5 percent, Hispanics—20 percent, American Indians—45 percent, blacks—55 percent.
In short, any tuition-based school that accepts black students will have 55% of them NEVER paying back their loans. It is, a very bad financial investment to even accept a black student’s application unless you demand 100% of the tuition money up front. As for Tribal Americans, with a 45% failure to repay loans, the same 100% demand of tuition money up front is also a given.
For Hispanics/Latinos your rate of return is 80% loan payback with 20% NEVER paying back their tuition loans. A smart tuition-based school would demand 50% of the tuition fees from their Latino students.
The other factors not mentioned are destruction to the campus property by Black & Hispanic students. The biggest factor is the rape issue. Black & Hispanic students rape the female students at rates higher than the general population because the campus is a “captive victim arena” and with the percentage of Liberal Women on campus it is a “delusionally moronic self-destructive captive victim arena”.
Hello? Anybody home? The country is going to shit. Could use another dose of your wit.
unamused, are you writing a big post for MLK/Mike King day? or are you saving it up for bLACK history month?
It all makes sense whites are better than blacks and Asian’s are better than white people, ITS A CYCLE
has anybody here
seen my old friend trayvon
can you tell me where he’s gone
i thought i saw him walking
up over the hill
i just looked around
& he’s gone
(to the tune of “abraham, martin & john”)
“It all makes sense whites are better than blacks and Asian’s are better than white people”. No they’re not. History is, creativity puts us way a head of any other race. Are we flocking to Asian countries ? No. For thousands of years we’ve been ahead of any other culture you care to mention. South east Asians are smart sure, but better? How? 90% of everything, from Philosophy, to Technics is a White, Aryan invention or innovation. We are the best. We have just allowed our culture and therefore society to be distorted by the you know who’s and their traitorous lackeys among our race.
What you see around you isn’t Western Civilisation but post-Modern Marxist “civilisation”. The West as it was is dead. We have to rebuild a new shining citadel with the 14 words caved deep into its foundation and inscribed over every gate… anyway the West is dead but we’re not. The damage that has been done to us, as AH proved in the 1930′s, can be repaired in no time.
Gridlock – “The biggest factor is the rape issue. Black & Hispanic students rape the female students at rates higher than the general population because the campus is a “captive victim arena””
At present, the U.S. is a captive victim arena. And once our African king has taken your arms, quite more so.