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Saturday, December 17, 2011 - 7:04pmSanction this postReply
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Brad, heh, thanks for the "but Dean did it too!" argument. Here's a few stabs at why people have a different reaction to me:

- I haven't been so in-your-face about the whole race thing. I take the time to write out that I agree that there is much variation beyond race.
- I have a real photo of myself, and I don't make weird audio only videos.
- I have an established positive reputation with many strong agreements on many issues important to others here. You have pretty much exclusively only attacked other members' positions here, and have not contributed anything positive from their point of view.

I would guess there are others here who agree to some extent that genetic design has significant influence on behavior and intelligence, to a similar extent as what evidence is available. But they choose not to assassinate their own character as you have. This is a very politically correct emotionally charged topic. To some extent I respect you for taking the hated position of this topic, in my search for truth.

On the other hand I think you could work on your tactfulness. Make more friends instead of making insults and disparaging remarks. Instead of making comments that accuse a person's entire self as being at fault, criticise the specific instance.

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Saturday, December 17, 2011 - 7:30pmSanction this postReply
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Saturday, December 17, 2011 - 8:28pmSanction this postReply
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Dean,

Regarding the "but Dean did it too!" argument... You have expressed what are clearly racist ideas (that crime and intelligence are racial characteristics), but the spread of those ideas doesn't seem to your focus in life, it isn't what you run around trying to promote. Trun spends his time advocating his racist ideas - they are his cause, they are what he has made himself an advocate for. And he tried to use ROR to pimp his YouTube videos about racism.

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Sunday, December 18, 2011 - 4:45amSanction this postReply
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There is definitely a black subculture that embraces values at odds with intellectual achievement and honest success. This interesting article about an NFL player who picked up the reading habit during his 20 months in jail sheds some light on it. The comments to the article are quite telling, too. Notice I said "subculture" which is quite distinct from "genetics" as the two really have no need to intertwine at all.

I mentioned in another post the heavily black population where I was raised. My parents expressed dismay when I started picking up some of the speech mannerisms of the blacks on the school bus in kindergarten. I would say "cah" instead of "car" when talking about an automobile and they would constantly correct my pronunciation. I wonder if they would have done the same if I had said "cah" because I was surrounded by white Bostonians?

(Edited by Luke Setzer on 12/18, 4:49am)


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Sunday, December 18, 2011 - 11:47amSanction this postReply
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I mentioned in another post the heavily black population where I was raised.

"I was born, a poor black child ..."

Sorry, Luke, I couldn't resist reciting this line from Steve Martin in that movie -- "The Jerk".

Ed

(Edited by Ed Thompson on 12/18, 11:48am)


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