Can anyone seriously oppose these "alt-right" points?

God it's so pathetic. Just writing off your 300 years of history and giving the whole enlightenment project back to the indians and the eskimos. It's just sad is what it is. Do you just have that little pride? This is your land, right now. Right now is what matters, the white european people who built your entire dream, who are alive right now are what matters, not some indian savages we butchered 400 years ago.

We deal with the world as we find it.

And it doesn't matter if you've realized, in your enlightened clarity, that "hatred of outgroups" is the "real problem". Those outgroups still hate you, and want to pursue their ethnic interests.

It's almost like you want to just martyr yourself on this recognition of the evil of humankind. Sorry, if you just stop playing the game, then the other group who is playing the game wins.

Canada has just begun to accept it's migrants and crime has already begun rising, just as it has in literally every single european country since the recent migration (when they even release crime/race data).

Here's an answer for why IQ could evolve, very differently. Imagine you are a farmer, and the cold is coming. It will be vicious, and nearly everyone you know will die (just like last year). But you are smart, you've decided to save enough crop up to feed yourself during the winter, and keep enough grain to seed the next years harvest. That took a lot of thinking! And all of your dumb neighbors who couldn't control their impulses, abstract the future, or plan ahead, died. This was a massive selection pressure, well described in the r/k literature (and subsequent theories of the intelligence gap). The colder the climate, the smarter the people on average.

Now imagine you are an African. You never have to plan for the future, but you do have to be strong as fuck. You have be able to literally destroy savage animals, navigate a far more treacherous jungle and landscape, and survive in the hot sun, year round with no winter.

Wouldn't it make sense then, that the Zulu have little or no abstract terminology in their language? They literally never had to abstract, at least not much. They never had to conceive of absolute rules, or numerical problems (like the farmer did in the winter). So his selection pressure was different.

Anyways, I don't want to go too far down the just-so evolutionary stories... but realize that there are obvious, obvious reasons why intelligence is selected for in different evolutionary niches. The difference is staggering and it is bourne out in the entire lived history of the human race.

/r/samharris Thread Parent