Sad that you're being downvoted (and probably flagged) for expressing a reasonable opinion.
Hacker News has been a left-wing echo chamber ever since the crazies started flowing in during that period when every story on the front page was NSA related.
Now it's nearly impossible to have a reasoned discussion on any non-technical issue without SJWs using the voting system here to silence dissent.
I think it's perfectly reasonable to place a large emphasis on the IQ distribution when trying to explain population trends. It's not laziness or cowardice in the slightest in the same way placing a large emphasis on BMI distribution is legitimate when trying to explain the prevalence of heart disease and other lifestyle diseases among populations.
I don't have a plan of action. If my argument is sound and we accept it then the implications for what that would mean for public policy and society are not exactly nice or easy to think about.
I do know that we predicate school funding and a lot of other education/social policies on "bridging the achievement gap" and maybe this should be re-examined.
If blacks are more likely to come into contact with whites than the reverse then it would follow that blacks are more likely to be killed by whites than whites are by blacks.
I know this is considered the most vile politically incorrect thing to say but please don't just downvote without comment.
The Jews, Italians, Irish, Chinese, and many more peoples all overcame decades, centuries, and millennia of brutal oppression to develop successful societies.
Why is that? Because African Americans have an average IQ of 85 and only 11-16% have an IQ > 100 (the national average).
When talking about population trends it's just physically impossible for blacks to compete on the same level as other peoples. Intelligence is correlated with long term planning and academic performance and is anti-correlated with lack of intelligence.
This is a shitty truth, one that liberals refuse to accept. But it doesn't matter what they choose to believe since this is reality.
Disclaimer: Obviously there are many intelligent black people and you shouldn't treat someone poorly because of the color of their skin.
I looked through the transcript of that talk and could not find a reference to that statistic.
I was prompted to actually look into this claim because the incidence of white-on-black murder is extremely low and I imagine the incidence of white-on-black murder where the victim is a woman is even lower. I would be surprised if there were even 5 such cases in the past 50 years in Alabama.
Do you have any sources? Or can you post the relevant snippet from that talk?
My only real life experience with a "drug bust" was at a music festival where a cop came up to my friend and I, asked for our bag of weed, dumped it out, and then asked where we got it. We didn't tell him where we got it and I then thanked him for not issuing us a citation.
You know, at least Europeans are consistent in their moral grandstanding.
For sure mass immigration from illiberal non-Western societies will cause damage to the cultural fabric of Europe and cause strain on the welfare systems, but at least you consistently apply your moral standards to yourself and not just America and Israel when it's convenient. That is admirable.
Hacker News has been a left-wing echo chamber ever since the crazies started flowing in during that period when every story on the front page was NSA related.
Now it's nearly impossible to have a reasoned discussion on any non-technical issue without SJWs using the voting system here to silence dissent.