Wong Chow Mein

Why I Oppose Asian-American Basketball Leagues

2012-03-05T21:04:00.000-08:00

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/7640755/jeremy-lin-emergence-inspires-passion-hoop-dreams-boston-hurricanes

Read the article over at ESPN. Greater attention has been given to these leagues ever since the emergence of Jeremy Lin. I've known plenty of people who play in these leagues but have never participated in one. They even have a national championship every year.

The leagues usually have rules that require players to be at least a certain percentage Asian or have a certain number of Asians on their team. There are usually more than a few mudbloods playing. If I were to form a league I would ask for pure blooded Asians only since I am a Slytherin and really like the idea of pure blood.

Do black people play in all-black basketball leagues? Of course they do, it happens all the time in the ghetto, except I've never seen them explicitly advertise as blacks only. That would be like the Vulcan Society! White people would probably not want to play anyways since they are afraid of being shot by a ghetto violent black person.

Do white people play in all-white basketball leagues? Well, they tried/are trying to form one, but of course it's all very controversial because of the issue of racism. History tells us that it was very mean of white people to do such things like place signs on pools reading "whites only". That's called discrimination and it is bad. Glory road fixed this injustice and black people took over basketball.

The moral of the story is that white people should never be allowed to make things "whites only" because the last time they did it, it hurt minorities feelings and violated the principles of social justice. The NAACP was furious that white people would even try to form their own exclusive basketball league, but why aren't they similarly upset at the numerous Asian leagues that operate in the US? I can only speculate.

"Asians Only"=Great Story. "Blacks Only"=OK. "Whites Only"=RACISM!!!!!!!!!!!

Social justice indeed.

I find the whole notion of Asian basketball leagues rather silly. My suspicion is that Asians play in these leagues because they would rather avoid competing with blacks and whites. I feel some Asians are scared of playing blacks and are more comfortable playing against less-aggressive Asians. After all, who knows if the black person will go ~~Ron Artest~~ Metta World Peace on you?

The level of competition is markedly lower in Asian basketball leagues because the players are shorter and less athletic. Asian-American basketball leagues are actually harmful to the development of talent. To become a better player, one needs to play against superior competition, and Asian-American basketball leagues do not fit the bill. Asians need to play against blacks (and whites) instead of insulating themselves like this.

Black People Can't Do Math and Half Sigma's Alma Mater

2012-02-25T21:43:00.000-08:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/education/black-at-stuyvesant-high-one-girls-experience.html?pagewanted=all

Too many Asians and not enough NAMs. I imagine it would be quite intimidating to attend a school like Stuyvesant--with all the crazy competitive Asians such as myself. If I attended Stuyvesant I would have been "average".

Some parts of this article are hilarious.

Her mother, Annmarie Miller, a nursing assistant at a hospital in the Bronx, recalled a cousin’s reaction when she mentioned Rudi’s pick: “You have to be Chinese or Indian to get in there.” A co-worker, also black, “said the exam is built to exclude blacks because it’s heavy on math, and black people can’t do math,” Mrs. Miller said.

That's a rather defeatist attitude to take and it concerns me that there are blacks who assume such a position. Did adults tell Jeremy Lin that the NBA is built to exclude Asians because it is heavy on athleticism, and Asians aren't athletic? Well, it is true that blacks as a group suck hard at math compared to Asians but it's probably going too far to say that black people can't do math period. That's like saying black people can't possibly maintain an advanced society...because for that, you need math.

More on Jeremy Lin

2012-02-21T16:03:00.000-08:00

On Quickness. Another issue that pundits not deeply involved in sports have missed. Jeremy Lin is quick, he has a nice ability to change directions, and an excellent first step. However, quickness on the offensive end has to be distinguished from quickness on the defensive end, while Lin possess a formidable amount of the former he struggles with the latter. Think about in terms of the differences in physical characteristics between wide receivers and cornerbacks. There are no white cornerbacks in the NFL but plenty of successful white receivers. Is there bias and stereotyping playing a part? Perhaps, but I think it's mostly a result of human biodiversity, blacks dominate the right end of this particular athletic domain.

But this does not preclude the possibility of Jeremy Lin or non-blacks becoming solid defenders in the NBA. Defense in basketball is not so dependent on defensive quickness as it is on other factors such as anticipation, tenacity, and learning how to play good team defense so there is much room for improvement.

On Asian-American Christianity: An overlooked aspect of the Jeremy Lin story is its connection with the burgeoning phenomenon of Asian-American Christians. Their presence is extremely visible on elite college campuses such as Harvard. At some universities I am inclined to conclude that more than 30% of Asian students are active participants in the Church. In fact, as many academics and students have noted, some formerly non-ethnic Christian organizations on campuses have of late been co-opted by Asians leading to some rather confused white Christians who arrive at their first meeting probably expecting a majority white group but instead finding themselves discussing the merits and demerits of the various outlets for bubble milk tea. Some of the white Christians inevitably adjust to the Asian atmosphere and convince themselves that "Christians are Christians" and that race doesn't matter while others will leave for whiter pastures all while contradictions rage in their minds. (This Christian organization is not for me. I do not like the vibe. It doesn't have anything to do with race, I swear! I mean, that's what's really driving me away from this group, but that would make me a racist, which is the worst thing in the world. I better ask God for advice. >_<)

Asian-American Christianity, while largely conservative in theology, is worlds apart from white evangelical Christianity. The difference can be seen in the conversation comparing Jeremy Lin and Tim Tebow. Asian-American Christianity is, for the most part, apolitical, with no obstinate stances on controversial issues such as gay marriage and abortion.

What can I say about Asian-American Christianity? While I used to harbor a great deal of animosity towards Asian "believers" (Bigwowo has a neat post that concisely summarizes my former feelings), I have since come to a more mature understanding and acceptance of religion.

Consider this paradox. Religion is universally false, but it is a universal truth that religion is necessary in human society. That's what I've come to understand over the years and why I think it is unnecessary to lambaste believers Hitchens-style. Another revelation I've had comes from reading Moldbug and forming a broader definition of what exactly constitutes religion. The Atheism vs. Theism debate turns out to be rather limited in scope when taking on a broader definition of religion, which of course, includes the very popular but ill-conceived and irrational notions of equality and democracy.

So Jeremy Lin is a Christian. Good for him. He takes his faith seriously and I respect that.

A Chink in the Armor. The hypersensitivity of the Asian community and of the bosses at ESPN is in my opinion, regrettable. I'm compelled to believe that it was all a big misunderstanding and not intentional, and even if it was intentional, there was no really no need to go bat-shit insane over the whole deal. Can not adults act in a civil manner when dealing with issues of race? Must every slight related to race be accompanied by shrieks and wails? The best way to deal with the situation is to assume a position of neutrality, point out the offensive message and explain it, then move on.

On Reality. Jeremy Lin's story is so inspirational as a human story because there are many of us out there who believe ourselves in the same situation, we could be great if only the stars aligned for us, if only we were given that opportunity. But the sinking truth is that most of us are ordinary. While aspirations and dreams are a distinguishing and unique spiritual component of the human psyche, the majority of us have to deal with everyday reality. We may not turn out to be great or famous, but I think what most of us can aspire to be are simply productive members of society, something that the black community has curiously neglected in favor of pursuits of glory.

On Nationality and Ethnicity. Is Jeremy Lin Taiwanese? Chinese? American? Asian? A combination of both? Every publication has its own definition of what exactly he is. Different terms are employed on a consistent basis. Is he going to join the "Chinese-Taipei" NT or will he opt for the glory of China? Both "countries" have offered him a spot on their team, though technically one cannot be both a citizen of the People's Republic of China and the US, but I'm sure they will find a way to work around that if it comes to it. Taiwan does not field a competitive basketball team while China does, so playing for Taiwan really doesn't do much, and Lin is not so good as to elevate that team to higher levels. Playing for China would cause international political chaos and redefine the boundaries between ethnicity and nationality. Questions would be raised about Asian-American loyalty to America, among other things. Will tribalism reign or is American truly a melting pot/salad bowl? It would allow Lin to play on a even larger stage, but would it be something that he really wants? In all honesty, Jeremy Lin's Chinese is marginal at best. In a interview done a while back, a Chinese reporter questions Lin in Chinese and receives a response in English, an unfortunate reality that confronts many Asian-Americans. But if Chris Kaman can play for Germany, what the hell do I know?

My bet is that Lin will elect to play for neither of the two "China's". Playing for China is a huge political and publicity risk while playing for Taiwan yields little in the way of benefits. Lin will be proud of being an American, above all things and realize that his dream was only made possible by the land of opportunity that is America. Perhaps in 4 years he'll be good enough to make the American team.

Why Jeremy Lin Matters to Me (and his left hand issue)

2012-02-15T23:14:00.000-08:00

I previously covered Jeremy Lin and discussed his intelligence before he was popular. I knew who he was. But now that almost every person in the states and perhaps the world knows his name, it's probably time to write another piece on him.

I haven't had the time to write in a while since I've been buried in work and then the whole Linsanity thing came to light and I couldn't help but to spend the majority of my free and not-so-free time reading every article and listening to every game on the radio. I was captivated. Why? Because I can relate, and not to sound pompous, but I can probably relate more than 99.9999% of his followers.

I am also a fairly tall Taiwanese/Chinese American brought up in the Church (though not a currently practicing Christian). I was also brought up in the game of basketball and competed at a high level both in the states and back in Asia. My father took a keen interest in my basketball education when I was younger and coached me until he was no longer able to teach me, at which point I was handed off to a series of private coaches (one a former NBA player). I didn't take my team to win the championship, but I have a respectable number of awards sitting around the house and box scores that my family would save. I know what it feels like to score thirty points in a game. I know what it feels like to be the best player on the court. To be honest, I haven't touched a basketball in quite a while now, preferring to pursue another more solitary sport, partly because of many of the tough issues (to be discussed) that would make basketball such an emotional sport for me to be involved in. Short story, I was pretty good, but mentally, I wasn't tough enough. So this piece will be part memory and part analysis, most of it scrambled, but my intent is to draw on my personal experiences in order to highlight some of the critical issues that many of the other commentators may have overlooked.

The odds are stacked high against any Asian-American who wishes to play competitive basketball at the high school level and beyond. Player development starts at between the ages of 8 and 10, before that, kids playing basketball aren't really playing basketball. I recommend that kids start their athletic careers with soccer, which will help develop the requisite speed that transitions well to the game of basketball. The majority of kids start their development in recreational leagues with teams usually coached by fanatical sports dads. At some point AAU teams will be configured from those that managed to be the stand out players on their recreational teams. The same thing happens with soccer and club teams. I was blessed to be part of both of these selections though eventually I had to choose one over the other.

What matters most to standing out in basketball (and soccer) at this level are speed and quickness. The skill sets that all kids possess are rudimentary at best and what allows a kid to get to the bucket better than other kids and steal the ball from the other kids is speed and quickness. There is a nuanced difference between speed and quickness (and even different modes of quickness) that probably evades most casual sports fans, but I will elaborate on this later. So those who prosper are fast. Or in basketball, unnaturally tall for their age, though this often can be a detriment to player development if their future physical characteristics do not match the skill sets they are taught. For example, many of the front court players from my younger days who I thought were going to be good since they were so tall (to me at least) when I played with them turned out to be nothing in high school because they never grew tall enough. At 6-2 with no speed, limited athleticism, and a post skill set, it's pretty damn hard to be good. Morale of the story, don't lock your kid into a position from an early age since you don't know what their height ceiling will be. To be on the safe side, teach them a guard skill set.

Asian-Americans and conspicuously absent from the development scene I just described for more than just one reason. One of the biggest things keeping Asian-Americans off the court is that parents are simply directing their children to more classically Asian activities and sports such as tennis, swimming, violin, etc, etc. And if parents do allow their young child to play basketball, few are willing to invest the resources in them for them to excel. 100$ per hour professional violin teacher? Yes! 100$ per hour professional basketball coach? Not so much.

That's one side of the equation. Another is simply the physics of human biodiversity. At young ages, Asians are less developed physically than whites and much less developed than blacks. There are exceptions to the rule as always, but it does not detract from the case. When talents are being filtered into their respective paths at this age, many Asian-Americans simply will not make the cut because they lag physically at that point in time and their parents will direct them to perhaps more "suitable" activities. This is simply the white/black basketball development case that Steve Sailer is fond of referring to, but to an even greater extreme. And at a young age, physical abilities reign above skill. So whatever paltry number of Asians participate in traditionally non-Asian sports, a comparatively few of them will be "noticed" enough to be selected to play on more competitive teams and beyond. Most will be the physical exceptions.

Just a note, this article covers only the male aspects of sport, no one really cares about women playing sports unless it is for a gold medal. Sorry to be politically incorrect, but I have to say it.

The barriers to Asian-American advancement in basketball are high even before secondary school begins. But what about the ever looming question of discrimination against Asians on the court? Does it exist? Yes it does, and I know. The security at MSG wouldn't let Jeremy in--they thought he was a trainer. On an AAU circuit, someone told him that there wasn't any volleyball tonight.

These stories about Jeremy have affected me deeply, to the point where my thoughts are racing around like NASCAR cars on a track. A few weeks ago before the whole Linsanity thing took off I was chatting with a good friend of mine about basketball who suddenly asked me a rhetorical question, "would anyone ever pick you first in a pick-up game"? I laughed at told him that it was unlikely here in the states. "This is what is wrong with the world," he said. But in a game of rec ball, the heuristics of racism are abused to an almost comical extent. The short pudgy black guy shooting the ball with two hands is almost always picked first.

In my first year of middle school basketball, I had to play on the "B" team. Why? I was better than the point guard on the "A" team, I played AAU ball, but I wasn't black or even white. I am fairly certain my coaches in this part of the country had never before seen an Asian basketball player and this factored into their roster calculus. Let him play on the "B" team. I scored and scored and eventually the PG on the "A" team failed a bunch of classes and up I went. Kind of like Jeremy Lin and the D-League, but not really :). I did exceptionally well there and proved my coaches wrong. And plus, they never had to worry about my um, academic eligibility. But with Jeremy Lin becoming a star in his own right, that's not going to happen anymore to any other Asian kids in the future who might face the situation I was in. Coaches are no longer going to be so quick as to make judgement calls based on race. They are going to think twice, once about their own player, and then once about Jeremy Lin.

In high school, I trained with one of my coaches at a gym located in a predominantly black part of town. He was black, everyone else in the gym was black, and I was Asian. I would often play pick-up with some of the other kids before training began and of course, I would be picked last, of course, what was I even doing in this place? We would play, and then I would earn their respect with my play, and all would be good. It's tough to even get respected in even such a small insignificant game because some of black kids wouldn't even pass it to me. Every time I had the ball I had to make the most of it because the next time down some black kid would decide he thought he was Kobe Bryant and that was going to be that.

I remember a few years ago, I was playing a game (s) of pick-up ball, picked last of course, when I was being guarded by some black nerd who obviously had no experience playing much basketball. I abused him repeatedly and finally the guy who picked him first on the opposing team ran over in frustration to defend me, to no avail. We played eight games in a row on that court and only left because we were tired. We never lost. At the end, the guy who picked me last just kept giving me the ball, shaking his head, and laughing with a big grin on his face. If he only knew.

When I was younger I always attended basketball camps during the summer where my favorite competitions were the 1v1 and 3v3 tournaments, because I wasn't very good at the shooting ones. I won a few of the 1v1 tournaments in a camp full of three hundred kids or so but nothing compared to winning the 3v3 tournament with a very diverse team composed of myself, a random white guy, and this tall lanky black guy with glasses whose name I can't remember but whose face is etched into my memory. I'll always remember that tournament because I was puking all over the floor from an pop-ice overdose at lunch before the tournament began. I kept scoring and the black guy (who was tall and fast but wasn't very good at scoring) loved every moment of it. The smile on his face after we were handed the trophy during the awards ceremony, I'll never forget. Of course, next year at track, he did beat me by 4 seconds in the 200m dash, but that's another story for a different day.

I played basketball at schools in Asia for a few years of secondary school where almost everyone was Asian and I didn't have to face the doubt from coaches and peers. I was good and people knew it. But the Asian game is much less physical than the American game. It was the only place that I could get ten rebounds in a game.

I accomplished some in high school, but academics and other obligations eventually led to me entirely losing focus on basketball the last year. I just didn't care anymore. Good enough to make all-conference the last two years to not playing at all the next. I had to get into Columbia. But that's neither here nor there.

I was fortunate enough to have a chance to play basketball competitively and I'll never forget the memories. Especially the one when I was going up against a team with a projected first round pick in the NBA draft and embarrassing him. OK, so he did block my shot, like 4 times, but he does the same thing to pros now, so what the heck, right?

I never once played against another Asian in an American basketball game (non-rec). Never. There was one school in the area that fielded a roster that I've always thought reeked of racism and favoritism. The school in question was only 18% black yet the entire basketball squad coaches included were always all black.

So what are my thoughts on Jeremy Lin's game? Where does he need to improve? Let's talk about the left hand issue, which you might be surprised to discover that is not so much of a hand issue but a leg issue.

Basketball fans have all pointed out that Lin strongly favors his right hand and is weak going left. This is a partially correct analysis. Yes he has used his left hand to score a few times but it is clear that he lets his preference for his right override a read of the defense which leads to forcing rather than letting the game come to him. Even on successful plays where he employs his right hand you can see where a left handed finish might be preferable. Watch him reverse on the left side of the rim and you will see what I mean. Driving right on the baseline, the most efficient driving plays would be to finish left off the right foot and shielding the defender or reversing the same way. Watch him drive on Steve Blake in the Lakers game. He makes the driving layup but it is an awkward one. Watch him drive on Matt Barnes in the closing seconds of the game. He makes a reverse right hand layup which looks pretty, but a left would have been a better, quicker, attack.

But I wouldn't say that Jeremy doesn't know how to use his left hand, but rather, he doesn't know how to use his RIGHT LEG. This is something that casual basketball fans and those who don't have a background in the game will miss. Employing the left hand effectively requires careful coordination between the right leg and the left hand. If you are right handed you typically jump off your left leg and vice-versa for a southpaw. But jumping off your left and shooting left or right/right doesn't produce the best balance (though Nash, Bryant, and a few others have managed to master it) or create the most efficiency. So if you are right handed and want to improve your left you have to coordinate that with the right leg which is usually not as strong. This is what I think is what is making Jeremy hesitant to finish left and why is always forcing the issue towards his right hand. He is not as explosive off the right leg as he is with the left leg so he forces finishes to his right hand in order to take advantage of the dominant jumping leg. You can see he doesn't get the same kind of explosive lift when he goes to his right leg/left hand and instead is limited to a scoop lay-up type finish.

Improving on the left hand/right leg issues would help his game immensely. It's a difficult process (and I managed to become ambidextrous much too late but I did it, taking almost a year of gym time) but it can be done. 90% of right handed people can't make a left handed layup (reverse for southpaw). For you non-basketball players out there, go try it. Not as easy as you think. Then there is the 5% who can do it but never actually use it (most HS players). Then there is the 1%, where Jeremy is, who can use it, but only if they have to. The elite level of ambidexterity comes when a player chooses which hand he wants to use according to the basketball situation rather than letting his hand dictate the situation. This final level allows a player to take and make shots at angles that might not otherwise be conducive to shot making and make more efficient plays (it takes longer to get to your dominant hand when you go to it even when there is a better angle with your off hand). Watch Steve Nash and Kobe Bryant play to see great examples of this. These two have even managed to do the super difficult, same leg/same hand finishes.

In any case, this is not a big issue at all. There are lots of players who aren't at the elite level of ambidexterity, even some who play even more skewed (i.e Chris Bosh), and still thrive in the NBA. But it is something that can be worked on.

And then there are the turnovers. Too many.

But he assists, scores a lot, and makes a game winning shot. I'll stop complaining and just soak it in.

All negatives aside, this is the greatest story that I've ever come across in my lifetime, because it resonates with me personally, and because it has altered the way our society views a people like me, Asian-American males. No longer are we going to be put down as quiet, subservient, but smart folk. Jeremy has shown Asian-American men that we can become leaders, athletes, perhaps in an instant, even in the face of tremendous odds. No longer will coaches overlook Asians on the court or on the field because of their race. No longer will otherwise well-meaning people pick the Asian last (if the Asian in question is 5-5 and clearly sucks, then it's OK, but that's not the point) because he is Asian. People will look at us differently than they have before. Our sociological role has undergone a titanic shift. Yesterday, I went to a track workout and a guy I didn't know looked at me once and said, "Oh, Jeremy Lin". I just smiled and ran harder than I ever have this year.

Dreams and aspirations are an integral part of the human spirit. They keep us going. We all have them and most of us will have to settle for reality somewhere along the way. I don't think Jeremy Lin will necessarily usher in a next generation of Asian-American guards to the NBA. In fact, most of us and our children are probably still better off pursuing productive careers as doctors, engineers, businessmen. But it is the notion of possibility that captivates our hearts and inspires, no matter what position we occupy in this world, be it working on the factory line at Foxconn or selling insurance, and that is ultimately what matters. Lin is a symbol of possibility.

Public Housing for SWPLs in Austin

2012-02-02T16:21:00.000-08:00

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/first-low-income-housing-project-in-decades-planned-2142265.html

An Austin nonprofit plans to build the first downtown development in decades to house low-income residents, a population often priced out of apartment and condo towers downtown.
Foundation Communities is proposing a $15 million, four-story project called Capitol Terrace at 11th and Trinity streets that will include 135 efficiency apartments. The units will be rented for $400 to $650 a month, utilities included, to single adults who earn less than $27,000 — roughly half of Austin's median income .
"There are a lot of folks who work downtown, at hotels and restaurants or even the Capitol, that make less than $13 an hour and would like the option of living close by and not needing a car," said Walter Moreau , executive director of Foundation Communities.
The nonprofit has in the past two decades built or renovated 13 Austin properties into low-rent apartments for low-income families and single adults.
Ten of the Capitol Terrace apartments will be reserved for musicians and artists, Moreau said. About two dozen will be set aside for people with especially low incomes who have been receiving housing and social service help from groups like Caritas of Austin and Austin Resource Center for the Homeless , the city's shelter.

Classic. Austin is full of bright-eyed young white people scraping a living working in the service industry serving other white people at places like Whole Foods. Many of them aspire to be writers, artists, and musicians. And of course, the "art" that they produce will be consumed by other white people. I've met more than a few young men who have moved to Austin without a job and with only their dreams and paltry savings to carry them. Is Austin the new California? The white economy is a strange thing indeed.

Walter Moreau is a racist pig. In victim studies courses I learned about the concept of "coded language" which can be applied to the comment about "folks who work downtown, at hotels and restaurants, or even the Capitol". I'm pretty sure he is talking about the white people who work at these places and not the Mexican maids and black janitors especially with the Capitol being involved. Young white idealist politician wannabes, no doubt.

Efforts to place affordable housing in expensive white areas have usually failed in other cities because white liberals will not tolerate the myriad of social problems associated with a large concentration of poor people, especially poor NAMs next to them. I think this project might actually succeed since it looks like the developers are looking for a majority SWPL demographic with token problem minorities included just to stave off negative publicity. Other white people would be cool with this.

White people get laid off, Indian people play cricket

2012-01-17T15:59:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeoBWzIRuic&feature=player_embedded#!

Hat tip to Half Sigma.

Small sample size, but it is fascinating to note that all of those interviewed are what I would consider significantly below average in terms of appearance. Where are the attractive people who were laid off?

Not that cricket is bad or anything...(say the politically correct whites)

Free Stuff

2012-01-05T13:58:00.000-08:00

The economy is weird. Regular people with money pay 120$ for a pair of athletic shoes and 30$ for a shirt. The cost of materials and manufacturing is around 1/12-1/15 of the final retail amount. Now that I am an insider, I still shake my head sometimes at people who are willing to pay such exorbitant amounts for athletic goods. Though my conscience tells me that they are being ripped off, my job is dependent on the fact that people with high discretionary income (and some without) are willing to spend that money.

I don't pay for a lot of things. I get tons of stuff for free--and if I want to buy something I can always get it for cheap. Companies love it when you test out their stuff so you can tell regular people how great it is.

Even though I don't make a whole lot of money, the free stuff sure helps since it would be stuff I would spend my money on anyways if I had a different job. Let's just say it adds up to 2k a year worth of stuff.

Jordan Sneakers

2011-12-23T22:09:00.000-08:00

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/crowds-waiting-to-buy-nike-shoes-turn-unruly-2052564.html

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/nike-decries-violence-over-air-jordan-shoes/story-e6frf7lf-1226229978791

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aVDFbtc4FY

It happened all over the country. People arrested, trampled, pepper sprayed, stabbed, in sum, general mayhem at malls all across America all because black people have an irrational addiction to Jordan sneakers. Of course none of the articles specifically reference the race of the Jordan seekers, but it doesn't take a genius to figure it out. Why doesn't this happen at Apple stores?

Why don't ghetto black people understand that they are the victims of an elaborate value-transference scheme created by Nike that sucks wealth out of the black community?

All this senseless violence for the privilege of paying $180 for a pair of sneakers. I just don't get it.

Infinite Jest

2011-12-19T18:32:00.000-08:00

100 pages in and I am still confused. I am putting it to rest for a while and focusing on reading the rest of Haruki Murakami's books which are in the mail and should be arriving tomorrow. I can't wait.

SWPLing, The Art of Living Local, Thinking Global

2011-12-15T21:02:00.000-08:00

The day started out innocently enough. I consumed a package of Quaker oatmeal that I had purchased from Costco along with a small Dole banana (the banana was smaller than my fully erect penis). I washed this healthy breakfast down with a glass of fortified 100% store branded grape juice and burped.

I left my cell phone and computer at home since I did not want to be distracted by technology. Is our constant need to stay connected a disease that can be cured?

My recently bought blue Korean car needed gas so I drove to the nearby Shell station to fill up. It only cost $26 and I was pretty low on gas. I love new car. I had to drive downtown to take care of some work related business but other than that I had no other obligations for the day. I decided that I would forfeit my personal sense of agency for the day and instead let myself become the subject. I would let adventure act upon me rather than seek it.

I cruised down the highway, windshield wipers steadily wiping away the steady fall of rain, more than occasionally checking my instrument panel to make sure that I was conserving gas. A recent obsession that I can't seem to shake. I would constantly check the average MPG and get a rush of joy whenever it soared to 40 MPG and feel glum when it plummeted below 35 MPG. Korean cars are quite efficient. I am a person who cares about the environment.

I finished my business and felt strangely free. I decided to go to the public library as I had to return a borrowed copy of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood, a fine novel that I had finished in one day. I dropped off the book and thought about staying in the library to read and people watch, but decided against it. The homeless people didn't smell so great today. Besides, I was in a spending mood.

I had been ordering two books a week from Amazon and checking one book out from the library for the last month or so as part of a project to satisfy my literary hunger. But today, I decided that I would support a local business and not give my money to the soulless corporation enslaving Chinese and Indian programmers known as Amazon (which ironically enough, I own stock in). Reflecting back on my recent book buying binge, I experienced a twinge of hypocritical guilt. My paycheck is dependent on people who have made the commitment to shop local yet I was taking their money and not doing the same. So I decided to go to the last independent book store (and one of the only ones remaining in the US) in town to purchase a book that I had been eyeing on Amazon. It was available for the low price of $11.76 with free two day shipping, but I knew I would have to pay much more at the book store. I drove to the book store, parked, and walked in.

There were a lot more people in there than I expected. I presumed the unexpected flurry of activity was caused by the holiday season. I was on a mission to find a book so I headed straight towards fiction W and found a bright display of the book I was looking for complete with a miniature handwritten review from one of the store employees. Oh, the joys of independent book stores.

I quickly scanned through the pages and then proceeded to the registers, where I was promptly helped by a smartly dressed white girl manager who I will bet voted for Obama and supports socialism. People who work in bookstores, especially independent ones, are like that. She was friendly and charged me $17.99 plus tax for the book. I was very satisfied with paying that premium amount as I knew part of that money would go towards helping the nice liberal employees there pay for their weekly organic groceries. Go Local!

I walked out shielding my new book from the rain and sidled back into my Korean car. What to do next? I drove out of the parking lot and went to search for a good coffee shop where I could finish reading Haruki Murakami's The Wind Up Bird Chronicles. I've been on a Murakami tear lately, if you can't tell already.

The first independent coffee shop I hit up didn't have any parking spaces so I decided to venture out to another one of my favorites by the lake. Who would ever buy stuff from the evil corporation Starbucks in this town when there are so many superior INDEPENDENT LOCAL options? I parked my car and walked into the coffee shop. I was instantly hit by the romantic scent of roasting coffee beans. A fat girl with pink hair took my order after fumbling around with the espresso machine. She apologized for the wait and I told her it was OK (it was not OK that she was very fat, however). I exchanged $6.00 for a bottomless cup of coffee, a cookie, and $.76 in change, which I promptly deposited in the tips jar, out of pity for the fat pink haired girl.

Mug in hand, I wandered over to the coffee containers to select a flavor. I decided on a bold blend that had both Colombian and African beans which meant that I was helping both poor Campesinos and Negroes.

Inside or outside? It was raining but the temperature was mild so I decided on outside. There, I could take in the view of the lake and the expensive houses on the hill. I whipped out my book and started reading all while keeping an eye out for lonely attractive Asian gals (Unfortunately I am a ethnocentric racist and am not sexually interested in non-yellow women). I figured I looked pretty sophisticated and attractive reading Murakami while sipping ethical coffee.

It's a good book, you should read it. I read for four hours and covered two hundred and fifty seven pages. There was one Chinese girl wearing a strange rectangular shaped backpack that caught my attention. She was meeting her Chinese girlfriend who was not surprisingly enough dating a white guy. At least, that was my impression. She looked decent from a distance, but as I got a better glimpse of her face and body, I became disappointed. Her face was too big and her ass flat and wide. A 4 at best. Damn. I returned to my book which was far more sexually intriguing.

I left the coffee shop at around 8 and headed for Whole Foods Market. It's one of the best places to people watch and good or bad, I always run into people I know there. I drove to Whole Foods and parked in the basement. There were a lot of people.

I aimlessly walked around the store checking out items and people. I didn't need anything in particular. Jeans and dress shoes seem to be a growing trend here in Austin. There was one thickly built bald man who wore a long leather coat who I liked. He was an interesting character.

Then I found what I was looking for. A display of $14.99 (originally $24.99) Threads 4 Thought hoodies made of recyclable material. How cool. Of course they were unisexually sized, the only gender-proper way of doing things. Did you know that physical separation of apparel items into gender categories is part of a violently oppressive scheme by non-progressives to socially construct an gender inelastic world? In essence, by designating a garment "For men", a company is submitting to an oppressive gender construct and being sexist. Moreover, the article of clothing itself may begin to harbor sexist intentions. Scary, I know, but it's happening at retail stores all across the globe. This is why you should buy stock in American Apparel and women should stop buying stuff from Victoria's Secret. In the future, males will wear dresses and women will wear ties. Look where progress has taken us so far. Women, being liberated from the gender-constraining meta-narrative imbued in the dress, now wear jeans and pants. Women have made significant progress towards equality in the realm of apparel. When will men be liberated into the allure of Victoria's Secret and start wearing panties? I'd say it is only a matter of time before that happens (there are actually weird men on the internet who do this...shudder).

I bought this on-sale! It's a large and fits pretty well on me.

This is my first article clothing that is "sustainable". I have no idea what "sustainable" actually means but it sounds cool and hip, so I am guessing it must be good. Clever trick with the "New York City" and "Los Angeles" since that's where all the cool chic people live and work. I don't get the U.S of A part. What does it mean? It's made in Pakistan.

I feel very socially responsible. I get to save the environment and help third-world people at the same time! It doesn't get any better than this. This is excellent marketing that will be super-effective on white people who shop at Whole Foods. It worked on me!

I ended up just buying the hoodie and a box of organic vegetarian lentil soup. It was a good day at Whole Foods. I am sure John Mackey, the Randian CEO of Whole Foods, was smiling at me from his office. I like Ayn Rand too. Too bad I didn't see any cute Asian girls during my time there.

I spent around $50 today living local. You should try it sometime. It's actually a fairly enjoyable experience. Later guys.

Check out the Threads for Thought Website. http://www.threadsforthought.com/default.html
They are marketing geniuses. Notice the "support our troops" on the right and the peace sign on the left. The irony is complete.

If I Were A Poor Black Kid

2011-12-14T21:25:00.000-08:00

Gene Marks is a fucking blind and stupid white guy. He's currently being branded as an evil racist for his article, "If I Were A Poor Black Kid". For some odd reason, the anti-racist blogger BigWowo is defending Marks.

If I was a poor black kid I would first and most importantly work to make sure I got the best grades possible. I would make it my #1 priority to be able to read sufficiently. I wouldn’t care if I was a student at the worst public middle school in the worst inner city. Even the worst have their best. And the very best students, even at the worst schools, have more opportunities. Getting good grades is the key to having more options. With good grades you can choose different, better paths. If you do poorly in school, particularly in a lousy school, you’re severely limiting the limited opportunities you have.
And I would use the technology available to me as a student. I know a few school teachers and they tell me that many inner city parents usually have or can afford cheap computers and internet service nowadays. That because (and sadly) it’s oftentimes a necessary thing to keep their kids safe at home than on the streets. And libraries and schools have computers available too. Computers can be purchased cheaply at outlets like TigerDirect and Dell’s Outlet. Professional organizations like accountants and architects often offer used computers from their members, sometimes at no cost at all.
If I was a poor black kid I’d use the free technology available to help me study. I’d become expert at Google Scholar. I’d visit study sites like SparkNotes andCliffsNotes to help me understand books. I’d watch relevant teachings onAcademic Earth, TED and the Khan Academy. (I say relevant because some of these lectures may not be related to my work or too advanced for my age. But there are plenty of videos on these sites that are suitable to my studies and would help me stand out.) I would also, when possible, get my books for free at Project Gutenberg and learn how to do research at the CIA World Factbook and Wikipedia to help me with my studies.
I would use homework tools like Backpack, and Diigo to help me store and share my work with other classmates. I would use Skype to study with other students who also want to do well in my school. I would take advantage of study websites like Evernote, Study Rails, Flashcard Machine, Quizlet, and free online calculators.

Gene Marks just doesn't get it. Poor black kids have low average IQ and are unlikely to be capable of or interested in the tasks that Marks suggests. Even black kids (or kids of any race, for that matter) of average and above-average IQ are unlikely to utilize technology in such a way. What Gene Marks proposes is that poor black kids become autodidacts, which unfortunately, typically requires a superior IQ, something that is not common even among white/Asian populations, much less black ones. A more appropriate title for the article would be, "If I Were A Poor Black Genius Kid". Gene Marks is a RACIST because he practices the soft bigotry of unreasonable expectations.

Every I time I go to the public library (which is a lot) I never see homeless and poor people doing anything productive on the computers or reading books. Most of the time they are watching Youtube videos and playing games. Even at college libraries, people are on Facebook 80% of the time. For most people, technology is not used as a learning tool or for value creation, it is simply a mode of entertainment.

Does Gene Marks actually think that kids use Sparknotes to help them "understand" books? Kids use Sparknotes because they are too lazy to read the book in the first place (or too stupid). It is amazing how many kids in this generation simply REFUSE TO READ. Reading is one of the greatest pleasures in life and it is disappointing to meet people who boastfully claim that they hate reading. They don't know what they are missing out on.

The insane out-of-wedlock birthrate among blacks needs to be curtailed. Reestablishing the structure of black families is crucial to reinvigorating the black community and promoting social change (change to the past). I am in favor of stricter of divorce laws and incentives or mandates that would allow more kids to grow up with both a mother and a father.

If I were a poor black kid, I would either join a gang or spend 4 hours a day practicing basketball.

SAT scores!

2011-12-09T21:38:00.001-08:00

Steve Hsu has some interesting data on the SAT and first year GPA with regards to Asians.

A few of my thoughts on the SAT. The ceiling on the math SAT is too low, especially for the East-Asian demographic. It is interesting to note that an 800 score is 96th percentile for Asians (including inferior Asians) which suggests that a perfect score would be...what 90th percentile or something like that for ~~superior Asians~~ East Asians. I had the same (or similar) score on the math SAT as some of my peers who possessed much superior mathematical ability. If you were to judge our quantitative skills solely on the basis of the SAT, you would think we were equally superior. But when we took the AMC exams, they could answer twice the number of questions that I could. I always died somewhere around the 10th question.

I think the ETS should make the math SAT harder.

I also think that college GPA is complicated. Many students will simply search for the easiest classes to maximize GPA, hence the development of companies like MyEdu. Your GPA might be higher simply because you were lucky enough to get into the biology class with the awesome Professor Gay and not be stuck with Professor Wang.

College is vastly overrated.

HBD and the Intelligence of Jeremy Lin

2011-12-04T19:52:00.001-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR7p-vmFp24

Jeremy's parents are short and he is tall. This is atypical, genetically speaking. I don't know too many tall people who have short parents. Maybe Jeremy had ancestors who were tall or his parents are short because they were malnourished.

Jeremy went to Harvard because he was smart and going to Harvard made him a lot smarter. But is this actually true? To me, Jeremy doesn't seem very smart at all in his interviews. He sounds like your typical dumb black basketball player. Maybe he just spends too much time with dumb basketball players and has adopted their manners of speech. Kobe Bryant sounds smart (and I think he is pretty smart too, probably in the top 0.1% of NBA players) while Jeremy Lin sounds stupid.

Jeremy Lin is also an evangelical Christian and believes Jesus came back from the dead. Some folks would claim that this is more evidence that supports Jeremy's non-smartness, but I don't think much can be made of his religious beliefs in relation to his intelligence. One of the smartest people I know who actually went to college with Jeremy is an evangelical Christian.

Jeremy's dad has a PhD in computer engineering from Purdue and worked in Silicon Valley, so Jeremy obviously has some smart genes. But my suspicion is that Jeremy is not quite as smart as his father. Regression to the mean.

Jeremy only had a 3.1 GPA at Harvard and he majored in an easy subject, economics. The average GPA at Harvard is around 3.5 so Jeremy was well below the mean. But then again most Harvard students don't practice basketball three hours a day and also travel around the country to play games. Perhaps his lack of academic success can be attributed to his commitment to basketball. Or maybe he just wasn't very smart compared to the average Harvard student. It's probably some of both, if you ask me.

In conclusion, I estimate Jeremy Lin's IQ at around 115. He probably scored around 1300 on the SAT. I find it highly unlikely that he would have been admitted to Harvard without his basketball playing abilities. In terms of intelligence, I think that Jeremy probably falls in the bottom 15% at Harvard.

****

I like Jeremy Lin so don't take this assessment of him as evidence of me being against him somehow. I just think that too many reporters and bloggers are falling all over themselves to worship Jeremy's Harvard smartness when in reality Jeremy only got into Harvard because he was good at basketball and is not that smart.

People need to understand that going to Harvard (or any college, for that matter) does not make you smarter.

IQ, Poverty, and Race

2011-11-15T17:12:00.001-08:00

http://blog.american.com/2011/11/maybe-it%E2%80%99s-journalists-who-have-an-iq-problem/

Charles Murray questions the authority. Notable quote from the deluded journalist who wrote the piece:

In nearly every local system, white students are disproportionately represented, even though most gifted programs explicitly target students with natural talents and aptitude, which are spread evenly across racial groups and social classes.

This reminds me of a lecture I attended a few months ago where the speaker was a Stanford sociologist who specializes in inequity. What is astonishing and perhaps even tragic about his presentation (as well as his research) is that it is based on the implicit assumption that natural talents and aptitude are spread evenly across racial groups and social classes. The room was packed to the brim with eager academics hanging on to his every last word, genetics be damned. Western political correctness has uplifted the fantastic notion of equality to unquestionable heights. And then you have academics wasting their time away working on explanations and theories that are all based on a very shaky, almost ridiculous, orthodox premise that they have chosen to accept on faith. I raised my hand and asked the professor if he ever considered the possibility of genetics being a factor in inequality. He looked affronted and muttered back something along the lines of heretability of intelligence is very low (it is not) but it was clear that this was not his area of expertise. His area of expertise was finding non-genetic theories that explain away all kinds of evil gaps.

SWPLbits

2011-11-10T18:06:00.001-08:00

"A quick scan of the room and we realized we were the only non-Asians in the restaurant. A HUGE plus for us.We get super excited when that happens because we know the food will be awesomely authentic. "

Read on Yelp. This shit is real, kids. Yelp is a fascinating place since it is full of SWPLs.

The China Conundrum? Chinese Student Reality.

2011-11-07T06:06:00.000-08:00

From the New York Times (hat tip Half Sigma).

First of all, why did New York Times choose University of Delaware, a borderline bogus school whose saving grace is a strong Chemical Engineering program. Oh yeah, chief racist female researcher Linda Gottfredson also teaches there.

Half Sigma learned:

1. Chinese students aren’t very good at learning English.2. Chinese students lie on their college applications, and they will cheat on tests more readily than American students. 3. They stick to themselves and avoid doing stuff with non-Chinese. 4. They study really hard.5. They don’t like to talk in class, and when they do, American students don’t understand them.

6. They pay full price.

Wong Chow Mein responds:

1. American students are even worse at learning Chinese and Chinese students are not, as far as I can tell, worse at learning English than any other non-native group.

2. American students lie on their college applications too. Chinese students don't even have the luxury of gaming affirmative action. I am not sure that Chinese students cheat more readily on tests than American students. I know a lot of Chinese students aren't aware that some their actions constitute cheating in the states. American students cheat/plagiarize with a clear conscience. They know exactly what they are up to and know it is not allowed.

3. Self-segregation is an undeniable fact of human nature.

4. Yes. Chinese students study really hard. Many American students don't study very much at all and instead frolic in recreation centers and drink at fraternity parties.

5. A cultural difference. In China, when you talk in class, it means you don't understand, and when you don't understand, it reflects badly on your intelligence. But in America, professors like kids who speak in class, even if they have no idea what they are talking about or display their ignorance in public. I don't know what obsession is with "class participation" in the States but I know that I when I participate a lot with original insights then professors love me. A lot of American kids just say stupid things in class or ask stupid questions. They should just shut up.

6. They pay full price and American colleges love it because they are non-profit organizations who don't care about money at all.

While Chinese graduate students have been a mainstay of American colleges for quite a while, undergraduate students are a new novelty, and American students have found it more than a bit disconcerting. Take this hilarious quote from the article:

Last fall, Kent E. St. Pierre was teaching an intermediate accounting class with 35 students, 17 of them from China. Within a couple of weeks, all but three of the non-Chinese students had dropped the course. Why did the American students flee? “They said the class was very quiet,” recalls Dr. St. Pierre, who considers himself a 1960s-style liberal and says he’s all for on-campus diversity. But, he agrees, “It was pretty deadly.”

"They said the class was very quiet" is politically correct code for "I don't like Chinese people". I am sure if the class was graded on a curve the non-studying American students would be devastated as well due to the superior quantitative genetics and training of the Chinese. Or it could be that Chinese people smell bad. I think I smell pretty good myself and don't notice other Chinese people smelling bad, but that could just be bias on my part. I think Indian people smell really bad but I have the suspicion that this is just a olfactory illusion on my part.

Back to #6. It's clear from the article that American colleges are cash hungry and Chinese upper-middle class students pay full out-of-state/private tuition in addition to the fact that they pay extra money for ESL prep classes. But for Delaware, it's not about the money, it's about "diversity".

But Dr. Harker rejects the notion that the university’s recruiting effort in China is mainly about money. “The students from New Jersey pay, too,” he says. “For us it really is about diversity.”

May I remind you that the University of Delaware strongly supports diversity. Chinese people will learn that they cannot be racists, only white people can be racists. But this is something that, Chinese students, growing up in a one-party state, should be accustomed to. This also reminds me that the article and general sentiment about China-America cross cultural interactions in the US seems to be that America is a country which values freedom of thought and is free from any state-led indoctrination while China is an oppressive state that deceives it citizens. But those who have taken the red pill can see that the US is not the fairy land of freedom that it claims it is and is not much better than China. Oh yeah, and we have this unquestionable good called Democracy that gets in the way as well.

More to come.

What do you want to be?

2011-11-06T08:40:00.000-08:00

Quit asking this fucking pointless question to young high school and college women who have been indoctrinated by our feminist culture to respond, "Doctor, engineer, soldier, president, banker, lawyer, :(:(:(,".

A better and horrifically offensive gender stereotyping (to liberals, in any case) but not completely sufficient answer would be, "Nurse, teacher, secretary, etc".

But the best answer that you never hear anymore is, "I want to be a stay at home mom with two kids married to a good guy who makes six figures". OMG SEXISM.

How about, "I want to be sitting on my couch shopping on my macbook with my husbands money waiting for him to come home so I can get fucked good". Yeah, that's more like it.

Why Science Majors Change Their Minds

2011-11-06T08:29:00.000-08:00

From the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/education/edlife/why-science-majors-change-their-mind-its-just-so-darn-hard.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all

Kids drop out of STEM majors because they are hard and non-STEM majors are easy, not to mention the fact that non-STEM courses give higher grades. The situation even appears at elite schools, such as Berkeley, which, unlike the elite private school thirty miles south, is renowned for its cutthroat academic environment.

Professor Chang says that rather than losing mainly students from disadvantaged backgrounds or with lackluster records, the attrition rate can be higher at the most selective schools, where he believes the competition overwhelms even well-qualified students.
“You’d like to think that since these institutions are getting the best students, the students who go there would have the best chances to succeed,” he says. “But if you take two students who have the same high school grade-point average and SAT scores, and you put one in a highly selective school like Berkeley and the other in a school with lower average scores like Cal State, that Berkeley student is at least 13 percent less likely than the one at Cal State to finish a STEM degree.”

The economics of competition are simple enough. The confidence of a student who is used to making As in school can be severely shaken when he receives a B- in a STEM course. Will that B- prevent him from going to medical school? Is he even good enough to continue battling for grades with the thousands of other students who are just as smart if not smarter? Maybe it would be better to, um, fulfill his passions in Asian-American Studies instead.

Professor Chang doesn't cover the entire story as he cleverly directs the story away from the issue of NAMs in STEM at elite universities. Let me preface this discussion by stating that I know NAMs in STEM that are smarter than me and are more than capable of majoring in engineering and succeeding. But for the most part, NAMs attempting to major in STEM at elite universities are going to be in for a rough ride, and many of them may just decide it would be better for them to be in African-Studies instead, where you can get an A just for being black (not really, since I've actually seen a student who thought this was how the world worked, but became highly irate at the end of the semester when he discovered that this was not the case at all) . If you are a NAM at an elite school whose admittance to the school was heavily aided by affirmative action, it is plainly obvious that you are not as smart as the general population of the university. Yes, a 650 math SAT score is well above average and very good for a NAM, but it is comparatively pathetic once you walk into a classroom where 50% of the class thought the math SAT was a joke and scored 800 while another 45% came pretty damn close to 800. The chances for your survival are not good even with NAM support systems behind your back. Society is always complaining about the lack of NAMs in STEM. Well there might be more NAMs in STEM if we eliminated affirmative action/equal opportunity (Orwellian) at the university level so the problem of mismatching would be solved. NAMs could major in STEM at universities where they actually have a chance at succeeding.

Forget NAMs for a second. A lot of smart Asians and whites who graduated near or at the top of their classes from generic public schools and go on to top schools to major in STEM will also find themselves in for a hell of a ride once they arrive in the classroom only to be surrounded by kids from Stuyvesant, Exeter, and Cupertino who didn't graduate even close to the top of their high school classes but are a hell of a lot smarter. Talk about a collision with reality. Holy shit, they think, here I was under the impression that I was a fucking genius valedictorian with a 1500 SAT score and a 5 on the AP Calculus Exam, and then I met my roommate Susie Wong from Stuyvesant who was fucking taking linear algebra in high school! In high school! Now how is it again that I am going to make an A in organic chemistry when I am battling for grades with the likes of her?

And then there are the kids who are whip smart but find that they don't have "the engineering gene", "engineering aptitude", or whatever you want to call it.

MATTHEW MONIZ bailed out of engineering at Notre Dame in the fall of his sophomore year. He had been the kind of recruit most engineering departments dream about. He had scored an 800 in math on the SAT and in the 700s in both reading and writing. He also had taken Calculus BC and five other Advanced Placement courses at a prep school in Washington, D.C., and had long planned to major in engineering.
But as Mr. Moniz sat in his mechanics class in 2009, he realized he had already had enough. “I was trying to memorize equations, and engineering’s all about the application, which they really didn’t teach too well,” he says. “It was just like, ‘Do these practice problems, then you’re on your own.’ ” And as he looked ahead at the curriculum, he did not see much relief on the horizon.
So Mr. Moniz, a 21-year-old who likes poetry and had enjoyed introductory psychology, switched to a double major in psychology and English, where the classes are “a lot more discussion based.” He will graduate in May and plans to be a clinical psychologist. Of his four freshman buddies at Notre Dame, one switched to business, another to music. One of the two who is still in engineering plans to work in finance after graduation.

Matthew Moniz could easily be me. In terms of academic background, SAT scores, etc, we could have swapped places, and no one would notice, at least in a hypothetical colorblind society. The author tries to frame the issue to make it seem like the problem rests with the faculty and administrators for not making engineering interesting enough and teaching it correctly, but I think it is more likely that Matthew Moniz, despite his high SAT scores, just doesn't have the chops to become a good engineer and it's probably a good thing now that he's going to be counseling people instead of designing chips or whatnot. I sympathize with Matthew. I am pretty fucking awesome at memorizing equations but I stink at application--and I am not sure that any amount of great teaching could change this as I've been blessed to have access to some pretty damn good teachers. It reminds of a conversation at had with an older gal who majored in engineering/math at a top school and told me that she hardly ever studied because it was all application and she was fucking good at that. Oh, it's also funny to note how dismissive smart liberals can be of dumb people, but only in the presence of others who they perceive to be smart, a perception usually acquired by educational credentials though not always. And intelligence doesn't exist. Right. I have pretty high bar for who I consider "smart". It's generally reserved for people who I perceive to be smarter than me, and that's not too many people, though I seem to meet quite a few of them in my social circles. Of course when wandering outside these circles I get confused when someone refers to someone else as "smart" when in my honest opinion that someone appears to me to be fucking retarded as I am sure I appear clueless to someone with an IQ of 160 or so. In short, I have high standards.

And then there's the fact that the STEM acronym is a misnomer. Biology is not a useful subject! And neither is any STEM subject for that matter if you suck at it. It doesn't do anyone any good if you major in civil engineering and you build a faulty bridge that kills your girlfriends entire sorority.

You shouldn't major in STEM if you are white racist pig who dislikes the sight and stench of gooks and kaffirs. Just saying. Well, just try to stay away from the University of Caucasians Lost Among Asians lest you end up filming yourself in an angry politically incorrect rant on Youtube.

Why do I bother commenting on this piece? Not being a STEM major, do I even have any authority? No. But I hope you like my insight.

Diversity in Firefighting

2011-11-02T10:19:00.000-07:00

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/almost-1-million-to-hire-firefighters-little-change-1944041.html

They spent almost $1 million in taxpayer dollars on achieving diversity in the fire department and failed. Incredibly, the new initiatives managed to decrease diversity.

"Incredibly, for this overly expensive process, the citizens of Austin received a hiring process of questionable validity and one of the least diverse classes, overall, when compared to other AFD hiring processes over the last 10 years," Nicks said.

I for one, don't care what color a firefighter is as long as HE fights fires. I don't understand why there is a need for female firefighters since once they become chief they will do stupid things like waste lots of money to increase diversity. There should be no such thing as a "policewoman" or women in the military for that matter. These professions should by all means be exclusively male. Having women in traditionally male professions distorts the social structure of male-female relations and undermines the cohesiveness of society.

The plus side of the war against white men in traditionally white male professions is that I'll receive preferential treatment when I apply in the name of diversity.

Looking around

2011-10-30T19:10:00.000-07:00

While riding my bike the other day, I saw a line snaking around a shoe store. Sure enough, the line was full of NAMs. What were they waiting for? Probably some new Jordan sneakers. While whites protest outside, NAMs wait in line outside to buy overpriced sneakers. Caveat emptor. I wonder how many of them are on welfare. This is value transference. By selling NAMs overpriced sneakers, Nike is being an oppressive racist evil corporation. They should start an affirmative action shoe selling program, where NAMs pay less than whites for the same shoes. I guess when you are poor and want to show off your status, you buy Jordan basketball shoes since you can't afford SWPL.
White people eating salad with chopsticks. SWPL is real.
I see a bunch of stereotypical black youths gangsta walking around the mall. Before I can become an angry racist, I crimestop and tell myself, "they are just a bunch of upstanding young men". When I walk out the mall, I spot them again. This time one of them is gyrating like only a black person can whooping and pissing on a car while the other two chuckle and hoot. Crimestop failed. Damn.

Yelp and Demographics

2011-10-26T07:52:00.000-07:00

http://www.quantcast.com/yelp.com

The average Yelp user is a female SWPL.

At 9%, African Americans are underrepresented on Yelp but not to the extent that I expected them to be. Blacks on Yelp are probably more SWPL than ghetto. It's hard to count on Yelp in the ghetto because there are so few reviews. I've tried it before and the only review on "Wong's Ghetto Chinese Food" goes something like "Dat some good shit this here kung pao chicken be. MmmmMMmmm."

At 15%, Asians are over-represented by a magnitude of 3. This is not surprising given that Yelp is software developed in Asian America. Asians love things that go beep. This plus Asians genetic tendency to food review and take pictures of the food leads to Asian over-representation.

Yelp is a liberal forum. Any conservative opinions are closely monitored and for the most part not tolerated. Don't even think of voicing an opinion about immigration as Yelpers are dedicated towards a lenient policy so that "ethnic food" options will increase.

Yelpers hate non-hip chain restaurants and will bash them every chance they get. The positive is that Yelpers have much better taste buds than boring old white middle America who prefer Orange Chicken over Ethiopian raw beef.

Unfortunately, I was banned from Yelp for repetitive violation of the code of conduct, even though I had written numerous popular reviews and was part of the Yelp Elite. It sure is funny how 20 people can find a review "funny" and then all of a sudden it will be flagged by someone who is offended by my writing and then taken down by the administration. Is it really that offensive to note that the Asian fusion restaurant that everyone is in love with is full of a certain type of white person when the same offended will go on to write a review about how "authentic" a restaurant was because all the other patrons were ethnic? Campaigns against SWPLs are not taken kindly by SWPLs.

I suppose I also did cross the invisible line when I slammed the clientele at AYCE buffets for being too fucking fat. But I think people deserve to know the truth. Eating huge portions of disgusting food is made worse when you are surrounded by disgusting people engorging themselves without a care in the world.

Books in College

2011-10-25T21:21:00.000-07:00

I estimate that only 1 out of 10 students actually completes the assigned reading in college. At stupid schools, the number is probably closer to 1 out of 20 (stupid people aren't interested in reading books, and if they do read, it's not on the post-modern analysis of revolutionary France ). You have to possess an unnatural amount of intellectual curiosity to even attempt completing the large amount of reading in a typical upper-division humanities course at a respectable university. The average undergraduate does not have the time nor the patience to do this. And yet, due to grade inflation, they will still likely leave the class with a C at worst and more likely a B or perhaps even an A. I've never met anyone who failed a humanities course.

Being an overachiever, I foolishly spent hours upon hours pouring over books while my classmates were out having fun. I thought assigned reading meant assigned reading, but it really means "suggested", and most people just ignore the reading since it does not interest them nor does the act of reading actually improve grade point average in any significant way. In one of my history classes last year, I was disheartened to find over 12 books of varying lengths on the syllabus. Last semester I read over 40 books. I read one a week for the semester even though half of the books bored me to tears--and I was actually interested in the subject. My hard work did pay off though--I was able to demonstrate my mastery of the subject on the exam--something that people who did not read struggled with. If you don't read, you don't have much to write about.

Funny story involving racism. One my classmates who did not do so well inquired about my grade under the theory that the professor was prejudiced against Orientals and would not award us A's. Bubble burst.

I think the dearth of reading can be attributed to the economics of grade inflation. I have the impression that most professors do not expect the students to complete all the reading and issue grades based on this knowledge. If you can have a shot at an A- without reading, then the marginal cost of reading everything (huge amounts of time) is much higher than the marginal benefit (a small increase in grade point average) and it is simply not worth it for many to do the reading. Of course professors hope that students are actually passionate about the subject and read to satisfy intellectual curiosity (another benefit), but this is very rare.

A high school honor student I am mentoring recently gloated to me about how she received an A+ on a paper that was about a book she never read. I laughed and congratulated her on the "accomplishment" but was silently fuming inside. Maybe it is my Calvinistic sense of compunction, but I would never have considered such a thing, and I often wonder how people could do this. Of course, if Madoff can be Madoff, then not reading a book is a trifle in comparison. But the slippery slope is there. The harsh reality of life is that some of those who cheat will eventually learn their lesson. But others will go on cheating and prospering until they die a rich death in the expensive coffin. And then there are those who live their lives honestly but still end up falling on hard times.

I find a poor existence devoid of guilt much preferable to a lavish life built on compounded wrongs. But I honestly find myself questioning the universality of guilt in the human race. Are there those who steal without looking over their shoulder? My heart wants to my say no, but experience tells me, yes, yes and yes. Is this a progressing trend in human affairs? With the death of God and the emergence of a chaotic and uncertain world, perhaps it is.

This scenario also highlights the pathetic state of the American education system. America. Where you can receive and A+ in an AP English course without ever reading. This was not the first time that a student I mentored did this. More than a few of the high school dumb jock types would just moan about hating reading and brag about how they never read books, but they were in the stupid classes, so it was to be expected.

EQ BABY!

2011-10-18T16:59:00.000-07:00

Dali:

I don’t think HBDers actually believe in limits (to an extent) or question an individual’s capabilities, as most of their evidence is purely statistical. Genius black people and athletic Asian people exist, but they are many standard deviations from the norm. However, having an IQ of 70 is definitely a limit when it comes to understanding pure mathematics.

This is an example of a low-EQ HBDer being a bad person. How could you give up on someone who has an IQ of 70? Have you ever thought of how that individual came to have an IQ of 70? If Albert Einstein grew up in terrible conditions in Africa without access to good sanitation and education, he would also have an IQ of 70. An IQ of 70 is NOT a limit when it comes to understanding pure mathematics because IQ is highly malleable and therefore cannot be a limit. By providing the correct stimulating environment, we can raise that IQ by more than 55 points and allow that individual to have a chance at understanding pure mathematics. Anyone with enough EQ should be able to see this. EQ, baby, EQ! We are talking about humans here, not superheroes!!! There is no evidence that genetic limits exist. There is no evidence that we cannot turn someone with an base of IQ of 70 into a genius. It has been done and will be done again. After all, all babies start at IQ=0. It is a matter of education, not genes.

A Critical Error

2011-10-16T09:05:00.000-07:00

James Watson:

there is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.

Big Wowo:

“Well, if we tested people across different populations, I really doubt you’d get equal results! You’re just afraid to test!”

Indeed, it’s impossible to test across different populations fairly, as one would have to compare populations of equal wealth, education, etc. But even if it were possible…few people think that the results would be equal. If I compared population heights, vertical jumps, IQ, bowling scores, head sizes, or whatever, it’s highly unlikely that I’d get the exact same results. It’s a strawman

At least I think BigWowo is responding to James Watson. I have never argued this before and I am not exactly sure what his point is here. He seems to now agree with me that equality would be a highly unlikely outcome in any event. I have been pointing this out to him over and over again and he would shoot back with the idea that equality is the most desirable outcome and therefore should the burden of proof should be placed on those who claim inequality. No one has suggested that anyone is afraid to test--Africans have been tested and their IQs have been found to be significantly lower in Africa. Yeah, it's a strawman, and this is probably the first time I've seen someone fail to destroy their own strawman.

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A Statistics Problem

2011-10-15T23:10:00.000-07:00

A: East Asians are on average much smarter than blacks.

B: You are wrong and here is why. Thomas Sowell is a very smart man and he is black. If East Asians were in fact much smarter than blacks, then Thomas Sowell would be Asian, not black. He looks very black to me. The fact that Thomas Sowell is smart and black conclusively disproves the racist notion that East Asians are on average much smarter than blacks.

A: East Asians are on average less athletic than blacks. (In my mind, a controversial statement, it depends on how we define athletic, but let's suppose athleticism equates to success in 100m and 110m hurdles, and even this is problematic, I don't know of any evidence suggesting the greater average athleticism of blacks, only their much higher propensity for being on the far right of the 100m/110h bell curve).

B: Liu Xiang is a very 110m hurdler and he is Chinese. If you were right, then Liu Xiang would have to be black. He doesn't look black to me.

Genetic Limitations

2011-10-15T22:57:00.000-07:00

There is no evidence that people have genetic limitations.

A man who believes that he has no genetic limitations and can fly like a bird then proceeds to jump off a cliff is a dead man. We all, at present, have a final limitation, and that is death. The universality of death is evidence of genetic limitations. Unless that is of course you believe in the whole heaven narrative.

This is assuming that science does not progress to the point where we can in fact fly or perpetually avoid death.

365 Black. Brutal beating at Manhattan Mcdonald's.

2011-10-14T18:39:00.000-07:00

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/10/14/shock-video-savage-attack-at-manhattan-mcdonalds/

This is a great video. I believe that the cashier did the right thing by beating up the unruly girls, even if he is going back to jail for a long time because of it. What made them think they could hop behind the counter anyways? They have now learned a good lesson about the importance of being polite to McDonald's employees who are the bottom of our social pyramid and have been oppressed by the McDonald's corporate structure.

I couldn't discern the race of the combatants, but some of the racist posters suggested that they were black. I am very surprised. I know all the racist pig white "HBD bloggers" are going to be all over this event by Monday (especially Half Sigma, since he is the NYC HBD blogger), but I will preempt them and mount an emotional defense of these black victims (they are all victims here). This is an attempt to improve my "Emotional Intelligence", so bear with me. Black people are peaceful and innocent-- this kind of violence is out of the ordinary. While the violence was horrific, we shouldn't blame the black girls for jumping over the counter or the black employee for using the rod to discipline them. Personal responsibility does not apply to black people. It is not their fault, but rather the fault of white people, who are responsible for the institutional racism that causes these black people to be angry and act like this in the first place.

Mcdonald's tries hard to fight racism with its black 365 program, but it hasn't prevented horrible things from happening at their restaurants whenever black people are around. We can look back a few months and find the Baltimore Mcdonald's incident incident, when a transgendered thing was brutally assaulted. In any case, maybe it is time for Mcdonald's to go back to Jim Crow days and refuse to serve and hire blacks? Then maybe these incidents would stop. Who knows.

This happened in Greenwich Village, not the ghetto!

The comments on the article are fascinating and very politically incorrect. A lot of people agree with me and think that the bitches deserved it. Here are some of the highlights.

Marot
Question: Whats the combined i.q. of the two ghetto chicks? Hint…its in the single digits.

October 14, 2011 at 7:31 pm | Reply | Report comment

rightsaidfred
Those beoches deserved worse than that. WOW people freak out when others decide they aren’t going to let black people get away with attacking them. Hurray for the worker, he should be given an award.

October 14, 2011 at 6:55 pm | Reply | Report comment

Jakes
McDonald’s is getting more ghetto by the day. Who eats there besides the losers whose entire family lives off government assistance?

October 14, 2011 at 6:11 pm | Reply | Report comment

There are many other great comments, but I am not bored enough to read all of them.

All this talk about McDonald's is making me hungry. I am going to get a Big Mac now. Bye! Please pray for my safety.

Byron Wrong

2011-10-12T18:32:00.000-07:00

Byron Wrong, AKA, BigWoWo, AKA Jaehwan (?), has been busy deriding HBD on his blog. Is passive-aggressiveness more prominent in East Asians because of genetics or is it culture?

He claims that HBD bloggers and intellectuals lack emotional intelligence.

“Intellectuals should stop dreading the ever-increasing evidence of human biodiversity and start delighting in it.”
http://www.isteve.com/islovecolorblind.htm
Why hasn’t this worked? Hmm. I mean, other than the fact that there’s no proof of HBD?
I remember him also writing something about pulling funds out of Africa because blacks weren’t smart enough to ever be independent. I’m not sure how he would know this.

Going to the whole HBD thing, a person with a higher EQ might be able to see beyond a test score, might be able to realize that there are reasons why poor people in dangerous countries might not do as well on test scores. Culture is something that takes EQ to understand (very unsubstantiated declaration here). Plus, related to IR, he might realize that Asian women usually don’t go for buff White dudes–he would see this if he weren’t driven by emotions. (and yeah, they are emotions. Again, I’ll cover this in my final HBD post.)
That’s the thing with EQ. You often miss things if you don’t have it. It’s easy to say a person or group of people can’t do something. It’s much harder to find solutions, which require EQ as much as IQ (?).
So from my view, one cannot dismiss his ideas as low EQ thoughts or blinded by emotion on race. There’s a point in his ideas on that.
http://www.halfsigma.com/2011/10/hbd-and-america.html
“This morning I saw Herman Cain on Squawk Box, and I thought, this guy sounds really stupid and low class. He would never have been promoted by Pillsbury to be the head of a pizza chain if he were white and he spoke like that. This is why it’s rather hypocritical of him to be telling those white Occupy Wall Street people that they are too lazy to get jobs. If any of them were black, they’d probably have no problem getting hired by some big corporation seeking diversity. ”
I don’t know if he’s blogging just to get a rise out of people, but you get what I’m saying. There’s lots of emotion there that causes some real human harm among the people who read his site regularly. Even some of his commenters (many of whom are racist) had to point out Herman Cain’s educational credentials.

The main thrust of his argument is that the only possible reason why anyone would consider such a thing as human neurological diversity as truth is because they are full of hate. Therefore, a belief in HBD necessarily entails a low EQ. For him, human biodiversity can never be true. This is why it is pointless to argue with him, as I demonstrated with an experimental personal comment about his family, he fails to examine reality objectively, and instead relies on emotion. Which is coincidentally why he would probably consider himself as someone who has high EQ. From what I understand, what a high EQ means for Byron Wrong is simply a high consideration of other people's feelings.

What does this kind of worldview look like? It means that anything that causes emotional harm to any group of human beings or individual can never be true, because a characteristic of truth is love. Therefore a scientific claim like Satoshi Kanazawa's study that provided evidence behind the lesser attractiveness of black women is false on the basis of it being offensive to black women (his methodology was suspect, true, but this does not detract from my main point, no study has been done that I know of which demonstrates the equality of beauty across races).

And I don't see any problem with Half Sigma stating that Herman Cain sounds stupid and low-class. Half Sigma, more than anyone, probably has done the research on Cain's credentials and probably came to the conclusion that Cain is pretty damn smart. But the claim here is that he sounds stupid, not that he is stupid. Cain is just much smarter than he looks/sound. Is it really that offensive to note that Cain sounds stupid?

The idea of HBD causes human harm to NAMs, therefore it must be evil.

And why does Byron Wrong keep insisting that HBD people vouch for the inferiority of Asians? If anything, they believe Asians to be superior.

My position on the whole IR deal, specifically in regards to the plight of Asian males, is that the American social structure gives white males higher status which leads to the IR disparity. I feel that the majority of people are in general, only sexually attracted to those of the same race as themselves. But on the very margins of interracial relationships, biological differences would give the edge to white males over Asian males. Ideally, 90% of Asian Males would be married to Asian Females and about a 1/3 ratio with AF/WM having the advantage over AM/WF. In my opinion, there is too much miscegenation going on these days...

The Lost Generation

2011-10-12T10:09:00.000-07:00

From the New Yorker (Hat tip "Wade Nichols" at the Half Sigma blog):

The ten most popular words were: “job,” “debt,” “work,” “college,” “pay,” “student,” “loan(s),” “afford,” “school,” “insurance.” On the face of it, these results suggest the primary issue for the protesters is excessive student loans. Together with the median age being twenty-six, this lends credence to the theory that the protest movement represents a “lost generation” of unemployed or under-employed college graduates.

This is what we are. There are those of us who are lucky enough to obtain a job with benefits at a corporation or in government, and there are those of us who linger on the sidelines frantically trying to hold on. I didn't grow up among the middle-class, but among the elite, so most of my friends are either in the first category, and if they are in the second category, they don't have any student loans to speak of and can live off of their trust funds comfortably. Until I went to University, I didn't even know that people took out loans to pay for school, I thought everyone just drew a check out of their bank account and that was that! Of course even rich people in the US are irresponsible and don't know how to save--I know several kids whose parents have enough money to drive new luxury cars all the time yet can't afford the tuition at shitty private college.

I don't think the primary issue for the protesters is excessive student loans. Excessive student loans are a symptom, not a cause. The cause of this movement and all other social movements is liberalism. The belief in the universality of education, home ownership, Keynesian economics, and other related items associated with achieving the fantastic ideal of the American Dream have created a dysfunctional and inefficient system with a bloated parasitic class of bureaucrats and administrators. It has wrecked havoc on the economy--leading to...guess what, no jobs for these recent college graduates. Don't protest Wall Street, instead work for the abolition of Democracy. The solution is not more Democracy, but less, preferably none. Their college education in History was a waste of time, but they should be able to take their "education", and use it to understand the arguments of my one of my favorite bloggers, Mencius Moldbug. But no sane American would ever support the end of Democracy-- they will get behind the End of History.

Back to our unemployed and underemployed college graduates. We have recognized that there is a systemic problem that begins with Government, not with corporations.

Where HBD ultimately leads

2011-10-12T09:37:00.000-07:00

Charles Murray and others argue that the truth of HBD does not lead to any particular political position or action. One could make a convincing argument with Ralwsian Justice--redistribution of resources from those with higher genetic capability to those with lower genetic capability, right?. I now have come to the conclusion that the truth of HBD not leading to any particular policy is flawed. It is simply a way to deflect liberal accusations and to make HBD more palatable to the masses.

If we use Machiavelli's scientific approach to politics, the logical conclusion that follows from HBD is eugenics.

The Korean turns against the liberals

2011-10-12T09:24:00.000-07:00

The liberal BIG LAW Korean finally sums up the courage to attack liberals in response to an NYT essay on "Super People", who are high achieving kids with a slew of accomplishments. How exciting! Most of the time you hear him yapping about how the Dream Act is so great and how Mexicans are just as smart as Koreans, but this time it's him bringing down the hammer on "NYT liberals", aka, the SWPLs.

But sort the hundreds of comments by "Readers' Recommendations," and a disturbing trend floats to the top: attacking the achievements themselves, and celebrating sloth and ignorance instead. Indeed, even the criticisms that appear facially legitimate have an undertone of contempt for more knowledge, more experience and more doing.

The prevalent image invoked by the phrase "celebrating ignorance" might be that of a rabid right-winger denying evolution or climate change. But this troubling trend of anti-intellectualism is an American trait that infects the entire American culture, including the presumably well-educated, left-leaning New York Times readers. Achievement-denial, in fact, has become the liberals' version of evolution-denial.

I think it is fair to say that achievement celebration and opposition to affirmative action are two of the most common non-liberal positions assumed by Asian-Americans. Celebration of achievement, especially with regards to academics, is a keystone of East Asian culture (though Mao and now Kim have done their best), therefore it unsurprising that Asian-Americans would be loath to celebrate sloth. I agree with the Korean and say that we should celebrate these super people, many of them are genuinely passionate about all of their varied interests, and even if they are not, it does not lower the value of their achievements. The Korean fumes at the most recommended comment coming from a fellow NYT columnist, Jane Gross.

When do these Super People have time to ruminate, to day-dream, to eschew GPS systems in their cars because it's interesting to get lost once in a while? When do they have time to be kind? To be a good friend? To go the woods with their dog? To dead head their gardens, mindlessly, for an entire afternoon? To sleep for 11 hours and let their bodies and mind do whatever bodies and minds do when they're sleeping? I couldn't do a square root in high school and still can't, unsure then and now what a square root even is is and why I need to know it. I remember nothing of my SAT scores except that they were very high, without benefit of tutors. I wasn't an extra-curricular activities kind of girl. My bandwidth was narrow then and far narrower now, at 64. But I held my own for 29 years at the New York Times. I wrote a book that a serious publisher paid good money for. Starting out in the world today, I'd be a loser. Why am I not properly ashamed of that?

What can we attribute the emergence of super people to? It's not as Atlus suggests, higher income inequality , evolution (?), greater health consciousness (?). Our world has become more competitive and the super people are simply a result of a different competitive environment. As a character in the wire would say, "this here game has changed". Jane Gross would be a loser today, she is right about that. Like the Korean, it infuriates me that Jane Gross and many other commentators are suggesting that super people have no hearts and do not appreciate life.

But where the Korean goes wrong is in his approach to the nature of achievement.

There should really be no debate about the fact -- the truth -- that the achievements listed in Atlas's essay, if genuinely attained, would lead to making of a better person. Musical training leads to increased brain activity and improved memory. So does bilingualism,which in turn leads to improvements in multitasking -- not to mention the obvious benefits of accessing completely different modes of thought taken from a different culture. Excellence in sport teaches the value of toughness, grit and teamwork. Travelling to a foreign land broadens one's perspective, and even more so if one volunteered to help the needy while traveling. These benefits are so obvious that the Korean cannot even believe that he has to spell this out.

The truth is that many people simply are genetically incapable of becoming a super person or even coming close to it. Yes, there are many out there who squander their potential in a mire, but there are also many more out there who strive and strain, yet are still taking the bus out of an empty small town ball park sustained only by dreams of the big leagues.

Who has the higher IQ?

2011-10-11T15:45:00.000-07:00

This is a question that has been on my mind for a while. Which team has higher IQ, the Bayi rockets or the Georgetown Hoyas?

Georgetown students are very smart. They are smart enough to get blow jobs from an intern and still remain POTUS. A look at admissions data will tell you that the average Georgetown student has an SAT score nearing 1400. Those are smart kids! Why am I even asking this question?

But wait. We are talking about the basketball team, which benefits from both affirmative action AND recruiting. I bet the average SAT score of the basketball team is under 1000. But aren't Georgetown players all super-smart kids who speak 5 languages and wanted to be doctors like Dikembe Mutumbo? No way. Or are they superstars who say, "Homework? I am franchise player and we're sitting here talking about HOMEWORK?". More likely the latter than the former, but the truth is somewhere in-between.

How smart are the Bayi Rockets? The average Chinese person is much smarter than the average black, but even then, despite all the slights against AA and athletes, the Georgetown basketball team probably has a higher team IQ average than the general black US population. And the players on the Chinese team didn't go to school to learn about how the history of white oppression--they just learned about basketball. Education makes people smart and the Chinese players don't have much real education, unlike the blacks on the Georgetown team who learned about calculus in Ebonics.

Which team do you think is smarter?

Chinese Girl in the Ghetto

2011-10-11T15:33:00.000-07:00

I read this book on the flight to Oakland. It was shorter than I expected, but very good nonetheless. Ying Ma claims to be "politically incorrect", but when compared to a mean person like myself, she is very politically correct. Her book vividly depicts the life of a poor Chinese immigrant who grows up among ghetto blacks and Hispanics. Unsurprisingly, NAMs in the ghetto are very racist and bully weak Chinese people because they can. She rails incessantly against the brutal actions of the NAMs against Asians, but caves to the liberal narrative of race relations, as she appears to hold a racially motivated crimes to a higher standard. I don't really get this. If a black mugs an Oriental does it really matter if was racially motivated and does it make the crime even more heinous if race was a factor? Ying Ma seems to believe so. Though she tries very hard to make it sound like she has sympathy for NAMs in the hood, it is fairly obvious from the tone in the book that she holds NAMs in contempt. It's not a surprise, most Chinese-Americans do, especially poor immigrants who have not been exposed to the wonders of multiculturalism. I think her real uncensored thoughts on ghetto NAMs would go something like this. "I hate lazy ass NAMs who mooch off welfare and sit around all day doing nothing and shooting each other. So lucky to live in America yet waste it all away not taking advantage of good education. Stupid fucks." I think I probably have a more favorable view of NAMs than Ying Ma. I didn't grow up among them and still romanticize them a bit while Ying Ma experienced them in real life and it was not pleasant.

Note that this is not an acknowledgement of HBD. Some people have offered the idea that many Chinese people accept HBD as truth. I don't think this is the case at all. Most Chinese people just think NAMs are lazy and stupid, but don't make the connection to genetics, and instead attribute the failure of NAMs to their own refusal to study hard. Or they just hate blacks because they are black.

I enjoyed Ying Ma's book and encourage everyone to buy it. She astutely points out the hypocrisy of racial discourse in the US, a discourse in which NAMs can be as racist as they like and not be called on it. One of the best parts was when she fights with a Mexican Ho and tells her, "Go Fuck yourself, you Mexican Ho". More Asians should stand up for themselves like Ying Ma and tell NAMs who bully them to fuck themselves. They should not cower in fear like the Philadelphia students and call the authorities. This is weakness. They should harden their fists, train in martial arts, and arm themselves to prove to NAMs that they are not to be messed with. A good example to imitate would be the Chinese national team unleashing holy hell on the Georgetown black Hoyas.

Another tangential issue I have with Ying Ma is that she has below-average looks. A 3 at best. BigWowo called me out for noticing this and says it is a violation of "universal morality" or whatever, but I am sure Ying Ma, being politically incorrect, understands why I must point this obvious fact out.

Half Sigma and Unemployed College Graduates

2011-10-10T19:28:00.000-07:00

Half Sigma writes in response to an instapundit letter from a reader:

As I previously wrote, two-thirds of college graduates major in something that sounds vocational or practical, and “area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies” is an extremely rare major. I suspect that many of them have rich parents or went to Ivy League schools so they weren’t concerned about their job prospects. The reason why college graduates are unemployed is because no one is hiring anyone and not because they majored in the wrong subjects.
I’ve also been against the expansion of student loans for as long as I have been blogging. Eight years ago I was talking about the issue before anyone else. Back in the mid-1990s, I sent a letter to my Congressman about the problem (and received a form letter in reply). As usual, I was ahead of the times.

Here are a couple of my thoughts on college and employment.

There are systemic problems with our higher (and to a greater extent, the whole) education system and general economy that can be fixed. This is a primary reason why college graduates are unemployed.
Some college graduates are unemployed (and less employable) because they majored in the wrong subjects. Choices have consequences. Half Sigma is wrong to believe that the student cannot be blamed--in political science terminology, the structure vs. agency debate is simply structure for him with no consideration of agency agency. Of course if you have an IQ of 105 you don't really have much choice but to major in something easy.
More importantly, some college graduates are unemployed because they went to the wrong school.
The people who have it real bad are lower and middle-class students who took on large amounts of debt to major in a useless subject at an expensive but mediocre private college. Davver sums it up in a nutshell, "Its useless if your poor. Rich people are suppose to major in non vocational studies. Poor people serve rich people and are supposed to major in vocational stuff.
A few poor people thought they were rich people. Mistake."
The only majors that are really practical in are engineering, nursing, and accounting.

"D" writes:

I agree with Jack. Not everyone is meant to be a damn engineer or medical doctor. I am getting real sick and tired of people saying this. I attend a top university and I know quite a few people that have so called useless degrees with well paying well jobs. All of these people before graduating had strong internships as well a high gpas which allowed to get into competitive graduate schools long after.

The school that you attend is very important. If you attend an elite school, you can major in whatever you want, and still have reasonable career options, mostly in business. You will have access to premier internships from on-campus recruiting. Take advantage of it. But nothing is certain in this economy,as evidenced by the anecdotal stories of Ivy League graduates without jobs on the internet.

If you attend a good state school, you will have decent career options, but major is more important than it is at elite schools. If you attend Cal, UNC, Texas, Michigan, Virginia, Indiana (schools with highly ranked business programs), etc, major in business and you will have a shot at top management consulting and investment banking positions (most likely regional office). If high prestige positions are not of interest, you will still have good chances at securing a job with a Fortune 500 firm from on-campus recruiting. In any event, you can major in accounting and go to work at Big 4. Or you can major in engineering at these schools and still do well (provided you are actually decent at engineering). DO NOT major in liberal arts if you are considering a career in business. A humanities major from Michigan is severely limited when compared to a humanities major from Yale. In fact, at many schools like Michigan where undergraduate business school is an elite program, companies often only target business majors, leaving you out of luck if you are in the liberal arts school.

If you attend a school not in the two categories listed above, major in accounting (where you can get a job at a regional Big 4 or a middle-market firm), nursing, or engineering. This is if you do not have plans to go to professional school. If you are attending a school not in categories one and two you may be intelligent enough to make it to a decent medical school or pharmacy school so that is an option. But you are more than likely to not be smart enough to make a top LSAT score which is required for getting into a T14 law school, so don't do that, since Law School is a scam.

A student with a business degree from Southern Illinois is not that much better off than a student with a humanities degree from the same school. Once you reach a certain lower threshold of school quality, major doesn't matter that much anymore (outside of the three I named), much like it doesn't matter once you hit a certain upper threshold, except in this case, the student is in much worse shape.

On-campus recruiting is EXTREMELY important. The first job that you get (or don't get) is very important towards your career development. And most of the good jobs come from on-campus recruiting. So if your university doesn't have good on-campus recruiting and is not academically strong, your options will be SEVERELY LIMITED. So don't go in debt to pay 43 grand a year to major in History at Skidmore College. Just don't do it.

The bottom line is that many students who are in college now SHOULD NOT be in college as they have neither the interest nor the aptitude for real learning or appreciation of the subjects at hand.

I am always surprised at how many students do not show up to a 150$ class (that's how much you pay per class at many private schools), even when the professor is good (and these are smart kids). Most kids with IQs <120 are wasting their time in college.

Emotional Intelligence and Logic

2011-10-10T18:26:00.000-07:00

The Love blogger BigWowo, who has banned me from his site, yet continues to verbally assault me with his passive aggressive ways, opines about "EQ". Though BigWowo seems to despise evangelical Christians, his opinions and tactics are deeply Calvinistic and evangelical in nature. He wrote me to ask if I had "a hole in my heart that needed to be filled (or similar phrase, I can't quite remember)". Evangelical Christians love to employ the trite "hole in heart" tactic and then offer Jesus as the solution. BigWowo didn't offer me Jesus because he doesn't believe Jesus was the Son of God but does believe in biological racial equality.

BigWowo writes:

I would argue that this “ability to perceive, control, and evaluate emotions” is also predicated on the ability to experience a wide range of emotions. If you can’t empathize with people, it’s hard to know where they are coming from. If you have a narrow emotional range, it’s hard to communicate with people. And if you can’t control your flow of emotions, it’s hard to think logically when your adrenaline starts pumping and begins to affect the blood that goes to your brain. When it comes to succeeding in life, EQ is as important as IQ. Your ability to understand emotion, to feel emotion, and to conduct yourself in a way to communicate with others in an emotionally appropriateway is a huge determinant of your happiness, success, and journey.

We’ve had lots of discussions on this board with Asian Americans who follow HBD (Human Biodiversity) and PUA (Pickup Artistry). Both groups are full of intense emotion. But it’s mostly in a limited range–they feel fear, hatred, and anger–no love, sadness, happiness, or elation. It’s often hard to talk to them because they don’t see what normal people see. Their words are laced with fear, hatred, and anger, and often logic goes out the window because of that emotion. It’s usually the HBDers or PUAs who are the first to go outside of standard conventions of debate when emotion gets the best of them.

He bans people from making unsubstantiated comments on his site yet finds it entirely appropriate to declare in big bold letters, "When it comes to succeeding in life, EQ is as important as IQ". I suppose this is an example of an unsubstantiated claim--but of course we must defer to Mr. Wong's supreme love in all issues involving emotion. This is just Mr. Wong's opinion, but as we know now, his opinion is fact. How about we empirically test this proposition? Mr. Wong's anticipated response would be, "Some things in life aren't empirically verifiable, so you can never prove me wrong, because I have the moral high ground, therefore I win".

Human biodiversity (sociolobiology, evolutionary psychology, game, etc) is a logically consistent theory on human nature. But is it logical to acknowledge HBD in the social context of 21st century America? Of course not! I don't see what "normal people see" because by acknowledging HBD in public and on this blog, I simply do not do as normal people do--normal people would recognize the high risks associated with taking such a position and refrain from doing so. They are being logical by believing in illogical political, social, and biological frameworks, if that makes any sense.

I am devoted to the truth, however unpleasant that truth may be. To take Mr. Wong to task, we may say that I have an emotional attachment to the truth.

AD HOM ALERT--
I would just like to point out that when Mr. Wong first attacked my blog I thought he was a strapping young man around the age of 25 judging from the hysterical way he blogged. To my amazement, I later discovered he was in fact, a family man nearing the age of 40. Needless to say, Mr. Wong is very immature for his age. I hope to God that when I am at that stage in life I will be more mature and have much better things to do than attack people on the internet.

Steve Jobs is in Hell

2011-10-07T07:35:00.000-07:00

According to the evangelical Christians, anyways. He was a Buddhist and I am pretty certain he never confirmed Jesus as his savior.

I don't understand pussy evangelical Christians who worship secular people like Steve Jobs yet still claim to be Christians. Don't they understand that Apple is not a Christian product? Using an Apple product is just like Eve eating the Apple the snake gave her.

I respect the Westboro Baptist Church because, at the very least, they are brutally honest about things, even when they might be horribly wrong. They stand up for their beliefs no matter what signals society send to them about the stupidity of their beliefs. At least they don't hide like our current breed of political correct urban evangelical Christians who want to have their Jesus and eat it too.

Eating salad with chopsticks

2011-10-07T07:25:00.000-07:00

I would live in Marin county if I had a million dollars to spend on a house. The weather is perfect and the opportunities for outdoor activity are endless. I don't have that much money, so I'll just settle for visiting twice every year.

I stayed with some super friendly white people who offered their gorgeous place on the ultra SWPL site http://www.airbnb.com (which I highly recommend).

When I stayed with these white people (who are typical Marin liberals with a strong granola influence), I watched them eat a salad with chopsticks. Oh white people, how I love ya'll.

Terrible Job Search Advice

2011-10-05T20:46:00.000-07:00

Lester Spence, a political science professor whose research interests include "the production and reproduction of inequality", responds to "a former student who graduated with a 3.5 who can't find job". Yes, in this economy, students with decent GPAs from top schools can't find jobs (or rather, can't find the dream job). It probably would have been a good idea not to major in political science where you can make great grades simply by sucking up to the professor and writing angrily about the superstructures of racial inequality. I don't see what practical advice he can offer a student as he probably has never held a real job in his life. Writing liberal propaganda and indoctrinating students does not count as a real job. It comes as no surprise to me that the advice he dispenses on his blog is totally useless.

Hey XXXX. YYYY must have prompted you to seek me out. Good to hear from you.
It’s not your fault. You’re likely going to spend a lot of time beating yourself up, like many of us are. It isn’t your fault. You like many of us are being victimized by a much larger process, the contents of which I’ve talked about over and over again in my classes. But while political action is called for you need a set of practices to deal with this day to day. I suggest four:
1. Treat “finding your thing” as a job. With a beginning at the same time everyday, a lunch break somewhere in the middle, and a definite end.
You want to take the act of “finding a thing” with that “thing” being a job, a passion, or a passionate job, very seriously. Treating it like a job will ensure that you maintain the discipline you need to get through this period. It also ensures that at some point in time during the day you will “come home”. This reduces your likelihood of breaking down mentally or physically.
2. Surround yourself with people who affirm you and can when necessary be lovingly critical.
Although I don’t really have much love for those who profess you’ve the ability to change your life simply by having a “positive mindset”, I do believe that you’ve got to be around people who can lift you up instead of sticking daggers in your side. Be wary oif people who are always critical of you, who consistently diminish your work and your value, who consistently blame you either explicitly or implicitly for your circumstances. You want to have people around you who instead are working as you are, who understand your power and your value, and can “pull you up by your coattails” but can truly do so in the spirit of love.
Relatedly you want to remain in touch with these people.
Of the four things I tell you this is the hardest. Because this may mean not contacting your family, it may mean changing friends you’ve had for a long time, it may mean weaning yourself off of your roommates. But for your mental health you have to. If you don’t have these people around you and can’t get them, seek regular counseling of some sort.
3. Keep a journal.
With the internet comes a variety of ways to store memories. You can blog, you can take pictures, you can make videos, you can save audio. Do this. Not only does it ease your mental health, not only does it build discipline, and your story telling ability, it creates a record for posterity. Something you, and perhaps later on your children, can look back on.
4. Work politically.
To the extent you’ve got other time I’d suggest working on some political issue connected to this. This will help put you in touch with other people in similar circumstances, will give you something to work on that will bner
There’s other stuff, but people don’t tend to remember anything after more than a few points. Suffice it to say that even though I haven’t heard from you in a while, I believe in you and your capacity. You remain one of my favorite students, and if you need anything you know how to get in touch with me.
peace

None of this is practical advice. It is warm and fuzzy, but it won't help the student. Seeking out professors most of whom have never held a real job in their lives for job advice is a bad idea (different in b-school but generally true in liberal arts). For real career advice, I recommend Marty Nemko , but he is both a racist and a sexist, so he obviously cannot be trusted.

A thought experiment

2011-10-03T18:43:00.000-07:00

BIGWOWO: Given the lack of evidence, we have a moral responsibility to assume the biological equality of all races and base all laws on the assumption of complete biological equality.

Wong: I think there is strong evidence that supports the biological inequality of the races, especially with regards to intelligence (g). I also think that we should assume inequality, according to the laws of probability.

BIGWOWO: I will never believe in the biological inequality of races unless you can provide me with evidence that is impossible to collect. The assumption of equality is simply the American way. You lose Wong.

Wong: Fine.

BIGWOWO: And I think there are all kinds of intelligence. For example, I think John Lennon, Johnny Cochran, Kurt Cobain, Picasso, are just as smart as the average MIT physics student even though they can't score as highly on a test.

Wong: So... what you're saying, well, let's take Michael Jordan and John Nash, are they equally intelligent?

BIGWOWO (missing the point entirely and running off on a tangent): You are a racist for using that example because you don't know that Michael Jordan is not equal in intelligence to John Nash. You picked Michael Jordan because you think black people are stupid and hate them.

Wong: That's not the point. How do we empirically assess the equality in intelligence of John Lennon to an MIT student? I'm discussing (g), not other "types" of intelligence.

BIGWOWO: That's what makes my argument so convincing. We can't empirically prove the equality, so I can make this claim and you'll never be able to disprove it. I'm such a great debater, my claims can never be defeated.

Wong(seeing the pointlessness of arguing with BIGWOWO): Stop being stupid. Oh, by the way, (finds of a picture of BIGWOWO and family on the internet), I don't think your spouse is very attractive and neither are you. THOUGHT EXPERIMENT.

BIGWOWO: ROAR! You are such a mean person Wong, regular people would never do such a thing. You are only commenting on her because you know you've lost the debate. You are a loser. Besides, I think my wife is BEAUTIFUL and you know she is beautiful. ROAR ROAR ROAR. I am older than you and therefore wiser. When you grow up you will have correct political beliefs like me. ROAR ROAR ROAR. I am banning you because we have different values.

Wong-the thought experiment was successful. Notions of beauty and intelligence are fractious topics and most normal, loving human beings will come to the defense of their loved ones (or even just belonging to the same tribe) when accusations of a lack of beauty or a lack of brains are made, thus making it impossible for the majority of people to think rationally when discussing these topics as it applies to individuals or groups, at least in the public sphere. Privately, of course, it's a much different story.

The fact that BIGWOWO defended his family is part of the paradox of humanity. If he had simply scoffed at my comment, then it would have been a much different story. Even the fat man in the fat couple will defend his fat significant other, or he is not a man.

I rest my case.

Perry Irony

2011-09-29T21:19:00.000-07:00

While discussing politics(a realm where I now seldom make any controversial remarks and just pretend to be liberal), a person I know who is a President of the Future Farmers of America chapter, a leader in a Christian organization, and also aspires to attend Rick Perry' alma mater candidly told me in a distinct Texan drawl, "Damn that stupid Rick Perry and those Bible Thumpers".

I think it was an attempt to impress me, but I was far more amused than impressed and I stared incredulously at the individual for several moments who did not seem to notice the irony of the situation.

Abercrombie and Fitch Diversity Overkill

2011-09-29T17:34:00.000-07:00

Ever since A/F was hit several years ago with a rash of lawsuits involving diversity, they have capitulated without a whimper to the diversity police. But the extent to which they have "embraced diversity" is stunning and borderline comical in nature. Better safe than sorry I suppose. Just look at all the handsome young POCs who work for us! At least A/F hasn't embraced weight diversity, as far as I can tell. I have yet to see a fat person working at A/F. Maybe fat people don't apply to A/F at all because they think it will be impossible for them to get a job on the floor where they will be seen. Some fat ugly multiracial transsexual person should apply to A/F and then file a lawsuit just to watch A/F cower in the face of the diversity police.

MEASUREMENT & ACCOUNTABILITY
Since the start of the initiative, we have seen marked improvement in the diversity of our in-store staff. We continue to work at this and other aspects of our initiative, but here are a few key facts as of April 30th, 2010 that we are proud of.
Our in-store workforce, as a whole is 50.22% people of color
Our in-store models are 48.44% people of color
Our in-store managers-in-training are 41.04% people of color

In order to drive the initiative forward each and everyday, a number of our associates – at Home Office, across stores and in our Distribution Center – are actively involved in leading the work.
Executive Diversity Council – a leadership group mostly comprised of Senior Vice President’s and above from a cross-section of business units, including: Human Resources, Store Operations, Sourcing and our Swiss office are charged with providing support for the initiative company-wide.
Stores Diversity Council – a stores specific leadership group, comprised of District Managers and Recruiters are charged with auditing and implementing our initiative at the store level.
Distribution Center Diversity Council – a distribution center specific leadership group that is represented by Human Resource leaders and line managers and charged with implementing our strategy across our distribution facilities.

I didn't know "people of color" made up 50% of America. Pretty soon A/F will look like the post office. Perhaps A/F is already preparing for future demographic shifts? I don't shop at A/F because it is overpriced and unfashionable. In addition, the stench of perfume that emanates from every store is nauseating. I was coming up from a subway station once when I identified the A/F smell and sure enough there was one 800 yards away. I do, however, like to wear Hollister jeans (until they redesigned them this year with buttons instead of the zipper, BAD IDEA that I attribute to "increasing diversity"). The majority of my shopping is done at Uniqlo, which needs to stop doing the conservative Japan thing and start opening stores in all major US cities instead of concentrating efforts in NYC. I just can't wear Uniqlo Jeans since they are clearly not intended for use by people with muscular legs.

Why are Asian American Christian Women Superior?

2011-09-29T14:09:00.000-07:00

Evangelical Christianity is on the rise in Asian America. The presence of Asian Americans in evangelical Christianity is especially noticeable at elite universities. Campus Crusade for Christ at Yale is 90% Asian (link offers some credible explanations for why Asians love Jesus though the "racially hostile" atmosphere one is unlikely). White bread evangelicals scanning the student activities listings are in for a surprise when they pick a ethnically-neutral organization such as Agape Campus Ministry only to find themselves smelling the aroma of Bulgogi and meeting all five Peter Wong's. White Christians will find themselves in a quandary-does brotherhood and sisterhood in Christ supersede race and ethnicity? Some will find acceptance and a home among the Asians while others will sour at the taste of kimchi and look elsewhere for to fulfill their spiritual needs.

The Jew blogger Half Sigma is fond of deriding evangelicals for their stupidity--but Asian evangelicals at elite universities are anything but stupid. In fact, because they are held to higher standards when it comes to admissions, it is likely that Asians are the smartest race on campus. I know many Asian evangelicals at good schools who are smart enough to maintain a 3.7+ GPA in engineering yet dumb enough to believe that Jesus really rolled himself out of the grave.

The vast majority of Asian Christians subscribe to a conservative evangelical theology even if they do not attend an evangelical Church. Many Korean Americans belong to the leftist organization known as Politically Correct USA (PCUSA), but I have yet to meet one who is an adherent of liberal Christianity (of the Borg kind). When is the last time you met an Asian Episcopalian? That is what I figured. I visited an Episcopal ministry on campus once and it was literally like attending a KKK meeting (not that I've ever been to one). During my visit, I had the uncomfortable feeling that everyone there (though nice) was wondering why the hell I was even there. I felt more comfortable at an MCC service despite being an ardent opponent of homosexuality (though I think the people congregation probably thought that I was gay like them and that was why I came to the service, so they were nice to me, uh maybe a little too nice). Of course it gives me great to pleasure to know that the Episcopal ministry is probably self-flagellating themselves over their lack of diversity(which is unlikely to get any better) and bemoaning their dwindling numbers of khaki and polo wearing rich white kids who are lost to the paradise/hell of Greek Life.

Back to the point. We know now that there exist large numbers of Asian American evangelical Christians (AAECs) on elite college campuses. How this phenomenon came about is not of great concern to me. But what is of interest to me is the potential that can be found in the female half of this particular demographic. PUAs looking for quick lays will not find much here, but if you are looking for a good long-term mate prospect than an AAEC campus organization or Church is an excellent place to go. Why are AAEC women superior?

Virginity. Sociologist Mark Regnerus found that 84% of Asian-Americans teenagers who attend Church weekly are virgins. The argument can be made that this demographics collective cherries are popped upon arrival at University leading to rarer incidence of virginity. But wait! This statistic includes both Orientals (who have greater sexual restraint and are more repressed) and dumber looser groups of people. If we only look at Orientals, it is possible that the virginity rates could be much higher. Then you have to take into account the fact that the Orientals who are smart enough to get into an elite school probably spent most of their high school lives studying and playing violin under their parents watchful eye so time for fooling around was scarce at best. I would estimate virginity rates for single AAECs in college and post-college at somewhere between 875% and 90%, with higher figures at elite schools, which is a great figure, considering how sexually liberal America is. Yes, I do place a high value on virginity. I am indifferent between a 6 virgin and an 8 non-virgin.
Submissiveness. Evangelical Christianity (more specifically, Southern Baptists) vouch for the complimentarian view of the sexes subordinating women to men. Southern Baptists do the right thing by excluding women from leadership roles. This is part of the reason why Evangelical Christianity is growing. No one wants to go to a Church where the presiding Bishop is female and other male Bishops are actively sucking dick. Conservative Christian values magnify the inherently submissive nature of AAEC women.
Intelligence. This is mostly applicable at elite schools. Sure you can reproduce with the cute waitress at the Chinese restaurant you like to get your Chow Mein at but then your offspring stands a greater chance of not being able to follow in your footsteps. Reproducing with smart women is preferable as it increases the likelihood of smart children. Imagine a Harvard couple's children. Not only are they likely to be smart, they get double legacy when they apply to Harvard (which cancels out the disadvantage of being Asian)!
Environment. This is not so much related to AAEC women as it is to the competitive environment in which they are to be found. Many AAEC men are timid omega losers who play Starcraft and put women on the pedestal because they think it is "the Christian thing to do" (not the Starcraft, but the pedestal). They don't understand the best way to win is disrespect and respect, but even if they do take the pedestal off, most of them would look stupid so there is not much point to it. A normal and decent looking guy with even a hint of game will have a diverse array of options to chose from.
Beauty. The Church has a bountiful supply of beauty.
Conservative values. AAEC women are unlikely to be radical male hating feminists though they may actually believe in the merits of diversity (who doesn't these days). But most of them are socially conservative, which is a trait I find highly desirable. They do not dress like whores, smoke like men, or prance around clubs drunkenly grinding. This is sinful behavior that God frowns upon.

This information is intended for the use of Asian men only. I am firm believer in racial purity. Despite what you may think, white males infected with yellow fever are NOT WELCOME to fish for women at AAEC congregations. Yes, the omega Asians will be nice to you, but once the chick pouching begins, don't even think about challenging them in a game of Starcraft since I am sure that they will punish you there.

The prior discussion applies mostly to the elite university setting but can be adapted with minor modifications to state universities or even the young professional world. In any case, AAEC women are superior.

DISCLAIMER. I am not a Christian. I do go to Church because of the mating opportunities. This makes me a sociopath :)

Make the Math SAT harder

2011-09-28T19:38:00.000-07:00

Yan Shen, the pro-Asian nuisance who has made a name for himself over at Sailer's and Mangan's, believes that making the Math SAT more difficult will only serve to widen the Asian-white gap. I agree.

The Math SAT is ridiculously easy. I made a near-perfect score with little preparation and I wouldn't call myself much of a math whiz. While I breezed through the Math SAT, I always struggled when it came to contests like the AMC. My classmates whose performance was much higher on these tests (and there were a lot of them) had similar scores to mine on the SAT.

The vast majority (99.99%) of American primary and secondary schools do not provide students with an adequate mathematics education. I believe that if whites were subjected to comparable levels of mathematics training then they would score much higher on the Math SAT. However, this would take time away from socially productive activities such as Football, Baseball, and Cheerleading and turn whites into boring grinds with no personalities like Asians so it is probably not a good idea. Just kidding, I really do believe that American schools can improve the quality of math education with more drilling. Someone at education school needs to conduct a study to find out if extensive quantities of math drilling improves math test scores (if you know of such a study, please link!). They need it too, as math (and sciences as well, to a certain extent, provided you do not go to one of those Christian schools that liberals warn you about) is one subject that is relatively immune to the infiltration of political agendas. What they teach as US History these days is painful to listen to.

Hurt and Offended

2011-09-28T09:59:00.000-07:00

The chancellor of Cal chimes in condemning the horrific actions of the College Neo-Nazis.

The Principles of Community are not about political positions. They require a consciousness of the potential effect of words or deeds on others: a positive intent not to hurt, offend, or denigrate others while expressing a reasoned position. Regardless what policies or practices one advocates, careful consideration is needed on how to express those opinions. The issue is not whether one thinks an action is satirical or inoffensive, the issue is whether community members will be intentionally – or unintentionally – hurt or demeaned by that action. The same applies to the way we interact with each other, whether academically, professionally, or socially.

In other words, if people of the correct political positions (and especially those in protected groups) are in anyway offended or hurt by incorrect political positions then there is a problem. We live in a world where offense must be limited at all costs because what matters most are feelings. Humans are emotional beings, therefore emotions (and feelings) take precedence over logic and empiricism. Truth claims must be evaluated holistically rather than objectively in order to minimize inevitable suffering. Take for example Paul Gilroy (having read his books for class, I have concluded that he is an atrocious writer) who made this statement in response to the flagrantly offensive blog entry posted by his colleague, Satoshi Kanazawa.

If he announces that he thinks sub-Saharan Africans are less intelligent than other people, what happens when they arrive in his classroom?

The idea that races differ in innate intelligence is deeply disturbing to Mr. Gilroy who presumes that such statistical abstractions will hurt the precious feelings of the sub-Saharan Africans who arrive in his classroom. Perhaps Mr. Gilroy underestimates the intelligence of black students, maybe they are smart enough to be able to understand statistics without having their feelings hurt. I provide here an outline of the correct rational though process.

Truth claim is put forth. Is it offensive to victim groups or even suggests the notion of inherent inequality (which is a subset of offensiveness since inequality is offensive)? If yes, then automatically presume that such a claim is de facto invalid because the progressive nature of truth requires it to be non-offensive and equal in nature (or at the very least, offensive to victim groups) and then employ apologetic reasoning to defend the position . We are working in a framework where perfection of humanity (the ultimate truth) and love (Jesus is Love) must be maximized.

Isn't the world a great place to live in?

Fat People

2011-09-27T19:53:00.000-07:00

In case you haven't noticed, Doug Christie is FAT, which makes him unsuitable to be POTUS.

I don't like fat people or the idea of fatness and would very much enjoy a world without fat people (though since this is not likely to happen I would of course settle for a world without fat women). That is not to say that some higher authority should go out and commit genocide on fat people. Fat people should be ashamed of being fat and be motivated to lose weight. Of course some people are just naturally fat just like some people are naturally unattractive but that doesn't excuse them from my discriminating eyes. For most people, you can stop being fat just like you can stop being gay. So stop reading my blog and get out there and exercise you fatty!

Thoughts on Affirmative Action Bake Sale

2011-09-27T12:44:00.000-07:00

The College Republicans at Berkeley have stirred up a political storm by holding an affirmative bake sale, a not uncommon satirical political action. Frankly, I have very little confidence in the people that call themselves “College Republicans” at elite universities (I imagine the situation must be quite different in more conservative parts of the nation). Most of these kind folks have all but capitulated to the liberal agenda and can only back-peddle furiously when faced with accusations of racism, sexism, etc. Issues such as the legality and morality of homosexuality, the benefits of diversity, have faded into the background as these so called “conservatives” gleefully buy into the liberal framing of political issues not realizing that by doing so they have thrown up the white flag.

Therefore I was not at all surprised to find this pitiful defense offered up by the president of the College Republicans at Cal, Shawn Lewis.

Event organizers received numerous threats on Facebook, and some of the group’s members changed their names and profile pictures. “This event was not organized by a bunch of white guys,” Mr. Lewis said. “We’re not racists.” The group’s 10-member board of directors includes several Asians and a Latino, he said, and more than half the board members are women.

The implication here is that if the event was somehow organized by a “bunch of white guys” (fraternities) then it would consequently be very racist and wrong. Mr. Lewis points to the diversity of his board as if its diverse nature makes his defense more credible (it doesn’t, it just makes liberals laugh), a stellar example of buying into the progressive framing of diversity=strength=doubleplusgood. A proposition is either valid or invalid; the diversity of the messenger(s) is irrelevant, though Mr. Lewis, having been conditioned to a certain diverse state of mind, believes otherwise, or in any case is too much of a coward to suggest otherwise.

And as many others have pointed out, why the hell is white bread more expensive than Asian bread?

To make this event even tastier, I would have sold European pastries (yum), Asian pastries (yum, dim sum anyone?), Mexican pastries (yum, pan dulce), and dirt cakes (gross) or injera (ok). Of course this wouldn’t be possible if the College Republicans were all stupid white males. Good thing they have diversity.

$1.50 (in San Francisco Chinatown!)

$2.00 (only problem is that white people don't eat white bread because it is white and unhealthy)

$1.00

$.75 (dirt cakes alone is just too cruel but then again I am an evil person)

As for what I think about the whole affirmative action issue as it applies to (elite) higher education? I really don’t care one way or the other, all I really want is transparency. Some people would like to believe that being diverse makes you a sure-thing in the admissions game, but it’s more random than anyone can imagine. Take a look at the new US News with the college rankings and you will find a profile of a female African-American prospective mechanical engineer with high test scores who did not gain admission to Stanford or Duke (but is going to MIT). Maybe she didn’t write about being oppressed by The Man and confused the admissions officers? I suppose that US News included her in an attempt to secretly defend affirmative action policies (by using an exception to the rule thus pointing out to AA opponents that AA is not as a great as it seems). But on the contrary, they would never dare profile a wealthy black with low test scores who gained admission everywhere because it would highly offensive to many of the Asians and whites who obsess over the college admissions game.