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The Perversity of Human Biodiversity, a.k.a. “Scientific” Racism

Posted on October 15, 2011 by bigWOWO

"Look at my graph, and don't blame racism, cuz racism is a thing of the past. Hmm, I wonder if I can dryclean my white shirt and white hood together.""

After years of debating and exploring “Human Biodiversity” (HBD), a.k.a. “Scientific” Racism, I thought it might be good for me to say my final word–much as I did with the Pick Up Artist debate. I’m under no illusions: I’m sure there are more words that people will share as the years go on. As long as there is an IR disparity, there will be PUA, and as long as there is racism, there will be scientific racists, so I know that this discussion will most likely continue long after this post. But it’s been some time since the HBDers have brought anything new to the table, so it’s unlikely that my views will change much on this topic in the future. It’s time to settle up.

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Emotional Intelligence and EQ

Posted on October 9, 2011 by bigWOWO

Emotional Intelligence was a book by Daniel Goleman that I read over ten years ago. I don’t remember the details of the book, but I remember being struck by the idea that a person’s “emotional intelligence” can determine a person’s success in life. Goleman had case studies of really smart high IQ people who lose it because they can’t control or engage their emotions.  Goleman directed people’s attention instead to EQ– Emotional Intelligence Quotient. Check out an excellent reader review of Goleman’s book here.  About.com defines emotional intelligence by saying:

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“A person’s worth is in their humanity and not in their differing abilities,” and the Art of Racist Deflection

Posted on August 31, 2011 by bigWOWO

Welcome to bigWOWO, where rational realists and rabid racists meet. Every so often, we get religious people coming to this site to try to proselytize the masses. We’ve had a Falun Gonger. We’ve had a number of fundamentalist Bible Thumpers. And most recently, we’ve had snowlipsistic believers in the Holy Church of Human Biodiversity (HBD).

I remember when I was a kid and was part of the fundamentalist Christian church. We’d try to convert people by saying stuff like, “What do you really want to believe?” as if that had any bearing on whether God existed or not. It was a deflection from what really mattered, a ruse to take the victim’s eye off the ball in order that we could go in for the kill and chalk up another one for JC.

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Snowlipsism

Posted on August 29, 2011 by bigWOWO

Thanks to TZ and King for our internal discussion.

Here is a Fighting 44s koan that Xian wrote a while back: If a tree falls in the forest and there’s no White Man to hear it, did it really fall?

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Satoshi Kanazawa Says Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women

Posted on May 16, 2011 by bigWOWO

Thanks to N’Jaila Rhee, who posted an article from Psychology Today that looks like it has since been taken down from their website.  It was called Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women, and it was written by Satoshi Kanazawa, who, as most of you know, is a prominent evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics.  I unfortunately didn’t get a chance to read it on the original site, but I saw tons of comments and blog posts by people who had, and I have no reason to doubt that it was up there.   Being the age of the internet, someone copied it before it went down.  You can read it here, and I’m going to repost it below (I think I can legally do this since it’s no longer available at the source.  If not, I’ll take it down.).  Kanazawa gets all “scientific,” and his “science” becomes his fact.  He doesn’t stop to think that the social sciences rarely if ever provide universal truths, and yet he accepts them as such:

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UFC 127: Dana White Says BJ Won, Michael Bisping Proves He’s an Affirmative Action Case

Posted on February 28, 2011 by bigWOWO

I had a long conversation this weekend with a friend about UFC, and I came to the conclusion that all sports are the same–unless you know the styles/personalities behind the players, it’s boring because there is simply no drama.  With the UFC this past weekend, there was plenty of drama.  Two fights in particular were interesting.

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Universal Humans and the Privilege of Whiteness

Posted on January 21, 2011 by bigWOWO

In the YA Literature thread, King, Kobukson and I had an interesting discussion with Oriental Right, formerly known as Asian of Reason.  Some of you remember AOR–he is a “human biodiversity” proponent from Johns Hopkins who believes that black people on average are not as intelligent as White people, and Asian men aren’t as masculine as White men.  With all due credit to him, he defended these views in a podcast with me, Alpha, and King (who is black), which we recorded here: Podcast.  Although everyone disagreed with his views and the logical leaps he took to stand behind his beliefs, people respected him for having the courage to step up.

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Podcast with AOR, King, and Alpha on Eugenics, HBD, and Racism

Posted on September 9, 2010 by bigWOWO

Here is our podcast from last night.  Download it here, or listen to it here:

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It’s a long one–an hour and seven minutes, and 31 MBs.

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Asian Racism and the “Asian of Reason”

Posted on September 1, 2010 by bigWOWO

One of our readers posted a link to the “Asian of Reason” a few days ago.  I’m always interested in Asian American opinions, and I was excited about the existence of a new Asian American blog.  However, upon a quick reading of the material, much of the material and rhetoric disturbed me.  It seemed like the point of the blog was to make the statement that there is a racial hierarchy and that people are the sum of their genes–which comes from race.  Some of the views are outright appalling to me. According to the blog, blacks tend to be loud and unruly, Asian men are somehow less “alpha” than white men, and White people…well, I guess White men sit at the top of the hierarchy since the blogger lists “Steve Sailer” in his blogroll.  Woo hoo for White Power.

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