Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
4d ago
The poster I was responding to was specifically declaring to be unAmerican some Indian guys who wrote a blog post about SCOTUS minutiae in flawless English, and who another poster claimed to have met and argued about baseball with. The average immigrant is irrelevant to this argument, as he very specifically excluded a non-average one, implicitly asserting that this non-averageness does not matter to him.
There's a broader point to make here that deserves a top level.
(Incidentally, I think demanding +4SD for 130IQ etc. is excessive. The set of Indians who immigrate into the US is already biased towards the smarter, more looped-in with US culture set; the criteria you lay out are maybe +2.)
+2SD would get you to just the 130, with a 100 baseline, which is a fairly generous assumption AIUI. "Intelligible English" alone is another +2, and I'm sorry, but if you think otherwise then you are experiencing a powerful selection effect. Go try to have a five minute conversation with the kind of guys who own motels, or talk to random strangers in a grocery store.
Or take a summer job at a T-Mobile store in a diverse area.
You are going to have to contend with every white racist's problem, which is that the majority of the people you would like to be in your ingroup feels more kinship with the urbane Indian-American guy than with you. If we were entering a new golden era of free association and vibes-based citizenship, they would sooner team up with him to send you to Madagascar than with you to expel him. I feel like the abstract schema, where A and B say "I consent" to each other while C is off to the side seething at B like "I don't, you should be with me instead", occurs fairly frequently in cuckoldry memes.
The problem is that this is an extremely selected comparison, and it's kind of embarrassing that our elite capital folks are missing the point.
I've written posts complaining about personal experiences with Indian immigrants - let me give a different example. The professor I had most often (3 classes) in college was an older Indian guy who taught physics. One of my favorite memories of him was when he was covering a unit on optics, and he had projected on the board an illustrative image, which he off-handedly mentioned was the cover art to his favorite album.
Yes, it was exactly what everyone is thinking.
We teen white kids had a great moment of fun about it. "Holy shit, did you guys know Indians could be Boomers, too?"
I liked that professor. He was a good dude, and he was good to me. I'll bet the Yale professor on Con law is in a similar boat.
Cool.
So, what about the other 99.99%?
Because the average immigrant is absolutely not an urbane, 130+ IQ dude with excellent English and a witty command of prestige television references. That's actually about 4ish SD above average. The experience of the average American dealing with the average immigrant is more like spending 10 minutes struggling to explain the difference between a square and a circle to someone with English (and apparent reasoning, though the linguistic issue is likely severely amplifying that) skills on the level of a three year old, while they are acting like an entitled asshole.
There was a post on the old place, years ago, and I can't quite remember who it was. GeneralMcCusker, or McJuncket, or however those names were spelled, I think. Anyway, the post described the enlightening experience of working in a T-Mobile store in a bad diverse part of town. And the post basically suggested that a similar life experience ought to be a requirement for having meaningful opinions about the communities of people involved.
I think a lot of this discourse is driven by people who never see what everyone else is complaining about, not in spite of, but precisely because they are extremely high functioning individuals of means who have organized their lives so as to never have to deal with the downsides of their tolerant and high-minded policies.
I know several such people IRL. Friends and family. Great people. I truly love them.
But on this sort of topic, all I can ever think is "Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying."
For comparison, imagine if we dumped an entire American trailer park into a small town in a foreign country. And when the locals objected and complained, the entire upper class said "What are you losers talking about? The Americans are amazing. You're just jealous because they're better than you." And then the only American they've ever met is FiveHourMarathon. Just so when everyone here is acting like their mental model of an immigrant is self_made_human.
We could halt all immigration and fully denaturalize and deport the bottom 90% of immigrants, and it's likely that most Westerners who actually post to this forum would barely notice.
But the people dealing with them in parks and the subways and retail establishments and getting undercut by people's who market niche is ignoring labor laws most certainly would.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
5d ago
I think there's value in specifying that it's two patties stacked, instead of one giant one.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
6d ago
I always thought it was strange that McDonald's has an item called a "double quarter pounder."
Isn't that two patties that each weigh a quarter pound?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
6d ago
Testosterone makes men feel less conformist and agreeable. You would likely have a massive problem with defections.
And Piker believes every word that comes out of his mouth. It's just that those words are all narcissistic retard slop.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
6d ago
Do a run of those stickers and slap them over the whiney defensive ones, not your own car.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
6d ago
He's hot. Also, rap slang objectifying women has metastasized to the point where high school white girls are using it to describe men.
Is it? I know oil prices help, but weren't they reliant on Iran for drone parts?
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