JTarrou
4hr ago
Confucianism is a belief system which the Chinese have been using to select for their elites/mates for several thousand years. Do you really think that has had no genetic effect at the population level? At this point, I would say Confucianism has imprinted itself on the Han genetic code, just as Christianity has the European. A society run more or less under that framework has been executing rebels and criminals as defined by that system for four thousand years.
Islam is an interesting case. It has only ever been successful when married to a militarily dominant ethnic group. The arabs who originated it never had the assabiyya to maintain an empire, and thus it became the tame religion of one after the other of older ethnic groups and newer barbarian tribes (Shia for the Persians, Sunni for the Egyptians, and Turks). Due both to the organizational limitations and the genetic diversity of their adherents, the imprint of Islam is harder to distinguish, but still I think present in the older populations.
JTarrou
8hr ago
This conspiracy theory about an "edifice of anti-blackness" is where you went wrong, IMO.
It never existed. There are always racist people, and there is always an ethnic angle to political conflict. Mostly this doesn't matter too much, because people are not and have never been any bigger on ethnic identity than any other. Racism is not an explanation, but a symptom.
The edifice of modern society based on international capitalism, division of labor and technological advancement is not and has never been anti-black. Black people who ran into it had a variety of outcomes, from slavery to slave trading empires. Every other group on earth did too. The native Americans died mostly of unknown and uncured diseases. The Mughals got overthrown by a beverage company. The Aztecs got overthrown by a local rebellion against their tyrannical rule spearheaded by a few Spaniards. The Aborigines were just....ignored mostly, so dysfunctional they were never an organized threat to anything.
Not every group of people was well selected for this new world. The long-civilized and long broken to the yoke of empire parts of the world tended to do better than more primitive cultures. This isn't a moral reflection on those people, but a recognition of their lesser ability to navigate the sort of complex systems and institutions necessary for a modern society. Civilization is partially genetic, as each society selects over time for those who can follow and prosper under its rules.
Take one aspect as an example. Literacy is one of those things that is not necessary or common in lower civilizations but becomes absolutely essential the more advanced a society is. People from largely illiterate societies by definition have not been genetically selected for whatever genes contribute to literacy. Over hundreds or thousands of years, once they develop a culture of literacy, they will become genetically better at it.
The reason Japan could resist colonization, and China could recover so quickly once they resolved the power struggle is civilizational, by which I mean a mental suitedness to complex society that has become partially genetic. Culture becomes genetic over time. This is why Ashkenazis have high average IQ, but Mizrahi don't.
We see that some cultures developed genetic templates that are superior under the current dispensation. These are not centrally "white" genetically, but tend to come from the heavily selected upper classes of several major genetic groups, all of which have a millennium or three of cultural literacy. Europe, China, Japan, India, the Semitic peoples, etc.
Some cultures developed genetic templates that are not well suited to the current dispensation. These are not centrally "black" although many (all?) black cultures are included. Tribal societies everywhere have struggled, from native Americans to Hmong immigrants post-Vietnam war. The Mongolians are not exactly tearing it up in international finance.
Much of the inequality everyone decries is just the mismatch of genetic templates from more primitive societies being exposed to the modern world. This has changed over time and will continue to change. HBD is a moving target. The future will be written by those cultural institutions that determine our current genetic selection.
Well, the rest of the professors who did a marginally better/lower profile version of Arday have been infesting academia for a century now. Everyone from actual terrorists like Bill Ayers to Judith fucking Butler has reached venerable academic age without any real issue. Why shouldn't they be able to bully the public into funding yet another anti-western sinecure for gay black retards? That's what "academic freedom" means, in practice.
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