Let me warn all of you. Unless you have worked with them, lived with with them, and spent years listening to them, you can’t understand how ignorant they are — they are not equipped to manage life in an information economy.
It isn’t because they are evil (although certainly some are) it is because they are shockingly, unbelievably, stupid. Unless you’ve been a public school teacher or someone else with direct experience (employer, manager, etc) there is no way to explain it. It’s breathtaking.
You can’t have a modern, high trust society with them. Not possible.
These are facts. It is not racism. It is realism.
And we need a solution that treats them fairly and with human dignity… and allows the rest of us to get on with our lives.
This starts with rigorous law enforcement. 20%+ simply must be incarcerated because they can’t follow rules or even understand why they matter.
For the rest, we need private market (not government) segregation. Let them have their spaces and let the rest of us have ours.
The current mix isn’t sustainable. We can’t live like this.
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A lot of left coded debate culture treats disagreement as ignorance because the framework itself requires it. If you disagree, you must have the wrong consciousness, internalized oppression, or you have been captured by propaganda. That is the whole move. It turns argument into pedagogy and pedagogy into coercion. It does not have to meet your reasons. It can explain your reasons away. So the pattern becomes automatic. Theory dump, moral diagnosis, and the quiet assumption that resistance proves the need for more education.
The people they talk down to are often not stupid at all. They are running compressed models that have survived contact with real life. Incentives. Tradeoffs. Reciprocity. Limits. Family. Work. Safety. Second order effects. They may not speak in grad seminar prose, but they know what breaks, what backfires, what corrupts, and what humiliates ordinary people. Their simplicity is not emptiness. It is distillation. It is what remains when jargon collapses under consequences.
There is also a group the framework cannot acknowledge without threatening itself. High IQ people who see the rhetorical tricks instantly, and plain speech people who do not care about the tricks because they measure by outcomes. Both the Grug and the genius converge on the same blunt conclusions. This does not work. This is a power grab. This creates perverse incentives. This punishes competence. This breaks trust. High IQ spots the sleight of hand. The Grug tests by consequences. The mid zone is where verbal sophistication gets mistaken for truth and complexity becomes a virtue in itself.
At bottom, leftist theory is a moral metaphysic dressed up as social science. Rupture, elect led repair, return to wholeness. Oppressor and oppressed as the master key. The good are the ones who can name the hidden structure. Repair becomes negation, deconstruction, exposure, reordering. Once you are inside that story, disagreement is not an alternate reading. It is blindness and it needs to be stamped out via ̷g̷u̷l̷a̷g̷s̷ reeducation or graves.
The tragedy is that this whole machine confuses complication for intelligence. It multiplies categories, invents language, and then calls the resulting maze insight. Leftist frameworks are flatly mid wit and derivative, so it sounds profound to mid wits.
And the grug keeps being right in the ways that matter. What happens if we do this? Who pays? Who benefits? What gets worse next? What does this teach people to do? Mid wit theory culture can answer those questions with paragraphs and footnotes and perfect moral posture, and still end up with tens of millions dead.
@shadegh0st @fatherofmen@matthewschmitz Your chart for median household income is from 2013-2015. Once more, DEI would not affect the entirety of your specific race, or nullify the fact that a large swath of blacks in the US are either unemployed or reliant upon government aid programs.
@shadegh0st @fatherofmen@matthewschmitz I'm asking for any new metrics that would prove or disprove the Forbes article from 2014 indicating that white HS drop-outs were more likely to be hired than black college students. Median income by nationality doesn't prove or disprove anything and isn't a relevant metric.
@shadegh0st @fatherofmen@matthewschmitz "Published Jun 27, 2014..."
Let's see some statistics that aren't more than a decade old. This lines up with the start of the large DEI hiring push; and I would highly doubt this is still the case given my own corporate experiences since 2014.
@revenant_MMXX These whiny zoomers love to complain about housing costs, but they haven’t even tried moving to an iceburg in the South Pacific and having 8 kids with a penguin. Unbelievable.