Jayman: The Problem with HBD, the Dark Enlightenment, Neoreaction, Alt-Rightism, and All That Jazz

misdreavus is just pulling the usual prestige-status based psychological game: these ideas are held by low-prestige people, don't even bother if they are correct or not, just be afraid of being associated with them and losing status.

I think we learned to see through this. Academia is more and more suspect anyway.

Of the more interesting stuff:

Just what exactly have the Portuguese contributed to physics recently?

This is not a bad point, but too murky. HBD-vise, you have to factor in Portuguese Brazilians, expats like the ones who got brain-drained to the US, changing demographics (immigration) in the home country, and non-HBD factors like money and education.

OTOH Salazar was arguably the smartest of all right-wing "dictators", being a professor of economics.

There is no such thing as a singular “white” race, and there never has been

Nobody said there. It is clusters, not sharp edges: https://darwinianreactionary.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/why-the-no-true-scotsman-fallacy-isnt-a-fallacy-and-why-it-matters/

The high accomplishments of Brunelleschi, Marconi, and da Vinci are hardly reflective of the creativity of the typical lazzarone in the mezzogiorno

Given how much North Italians despise the Mezzogiorno, one can suspect they are practically a different people. Down south they tend to tell the north "you aren't realy Italians, you are Germans", up north they say "Africa begins below Rome".

There are rational and sensible reasons to advocate for a strict moratorium on immigration

One difference between NRx "geeks" and Alt-Right "warriors" is that I think - at least I for one - would be more approving of simply having immigration candidates take an IQ test and filter by that (OK religion matters too, but that is now a different story) rather than elaborate racial filters. Seriously. HBD simply says don't expect the IQ scores to be balanced amongst test-takers of various races and ethnies. But I for one am not opposed to taking the "cream" of Indians for example and take in 110+ IQ programmers. It would even improve our genetics, because we would get on the whole smarter, and I would not care that we become browner. I would say I am anti-anti-racist, not racist per se and I think it is fairly common in NRx. This means, opposing the anti-racist idea that all races are on the average equally capable, but not opposing the idea of taking the "cream" of various races and not giving a fuck how brown they are. This in theory, in practice it is better to close the borders now because the problem is that the Prog elite would distort any clever IQ filtering mechanism, so we need, in the very literal way, Schelling Fences: barriers the Prog elites cannot distort with plausible deniability.

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