XPost: alt.bitterness, alt.non.racism   
   From: phantasmo@que.mx   
      
   Altarade wrote:   
   > FACE  wrote:   
   >> LOL!  I have encountered Myal before and he was of a much more pleasant   
   >> character.........   
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   >> Apparently this subject is a little 'touchy' with him.   
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   >> FACE   
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   > Whites Are  Intellectually Inferior To Jews And Asians   
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   > It's time that whites learned their place.   
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   > The general pecking order of average intelligence goes something like this:   
   > Ashkenazim Jews 115; East Asians 105; Whites 100; Amerindians and most   
   > Hispanics 90; African Americans 85; and sub-Saharan Africans 70. By the same   
   > order, accumulation of wealth, the level of income, achieved academic   
   > success, etc., also follows closely with the average IQs of these six racial   
   > groupings. So far, the left has claimed that White racism has made Hispanics   
   > and Blacks look less intelligent than Whites and the outstanding family   
   > discipline and educational encouragement has boosted the intelligence of East   
   > Asians and Jews. The problem is, no one has been able to show exactly how   
   > these environmental differences alter the expressed intelligence of   
   > individuals or races. Genetics is merely denied as the primary difference,   
   > and anyone who says differently is a racist.   
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   >   
   > Now for the first time that I am aware of, a study has been published, AND   
   > REPORTED ON, that some of the high intelligence of Ashkenazi Jews is due to   
   > genes that are unique to them alone. And if Ashkenazim Jews are more   
   > intelligent than Whites by 15 IQ points because of genes, it is just as   
   > likely that Whites are 15 IQ points above Blacks because of genes also.   
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   >   
   > From the New York Times: "A team of scientists at the University of Utah has   
   > proposed that the unusual pattern of genetic diseases seen among Jews of   
   > central or northern European origin, or Ashkenazim, is the result of natural   
   > selection for enhanced intellectual ability. The selective force was the   
   > restriction of Ashkenazim in medieval Europe to occupations that required   
   > more than usual mental agility, the researchers say in a paper that has been   
   > accepted by the Journal of Biosocial Science, published by Cambridge   
   > University Press in England." (The complete article along with two others are   
   > available here.)   
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   > Other researchers are contending that the cause of Jewish high intelligence   
   > is due to other factors than just these recessive genes, or the selection was   
   > caused by persecution, religious practices selecting for scholarship, a   
   > founders effect, etc. But none deny that Jews are intelligent because of some   
   > sort of selection process and it is genetic, not cultural. The New York Times   
   > article openly attributes Jewish success in such areas as the number of Nobel   
   > prizes won by Jews, as where a second article on this research published in   
   > The Economist states that "Ashkenazim generally do well in IQ tests, scoring   
   > 12-15 points above the mean value of 100, and have contributed   
   > disproportionately to the intellectual and cultural life of the West, as the   
   > careers of Freud, Einstein and Mahler, pictured above, affirm. They also   
   > suffer more often than most people from a number of nasty genetic diseases,   
   > such as Tay-Sachs and breast cancer. These facts, however, have previously   
   > been thought unrelated. The former has been put down to social effects, such   
   > as a strong tradition of valuing education. The latter was seen as a   
   > consequence of genetic isolation. Even now, Ashkenazim tend to marry among   
   > themselves. In the past they did so almost exclusively."   
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   > This is the first direct evidence that relates specific genes to   
   > intelligence. The reason that this type of discovery is possible is because   
   > the genes for recessive diseases are relatively easy to find?unlike other   
   > genes that are far more complicated in how they interact with development   
   > leading to high or low general intelligence. The Economist states, "Most of   
   > the dozen or so disease genes that are common in them [Jews] belong to one of   
   > two types: they are involved either in the storage in nerve cells of special   
   > fats called sphingolipids, which form part of the insulating outer sheaths   
   > that allow nerve cells to transmit electrical signals, or in DNA repair. The   
   > former genes cause neurological diseases, such as Tay-Sachs, Gaucher's and   
   > Niemann-Pick. The latter cause cancer."   
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   >   
   > Not mentioned in these articles is the importance of fats that surround   
   > axons, called myelination, which contributes to high intelligence. This fatty   
   > tissue is laid down as a person reaches adulthood, and it is thought that   
   > this fatty tissue insulates signaling from interference and/or increases the   
   > speed of nerve conduction?both of which are important for intelligence. It   
   > also explains why heritability of intelligence goes from about 40% in   
   > childhood to 80% in adulthood. Myelination, or the amount of fatty tissue   
   > variance between individuals (and races) is estimated at about 90%   
   > heritability, and does not develop fully until adulthood.   
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   >   
   > In fact in one case?Gaucher's disease?The Economist noted that a clinic that   
   > specializes in the disease has far more patients that are in high IQ   
   > occupations than would normally be expected. This could be just one of those   
   > so-called smart-genes. It also shows that intelligence genes can come in many   
   > varieties and forms in different races. That is, the genes that contribute to   
   > Jewish high intelligence may not be the same genes that contribute to high   
   > intelligence in Whites.   
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   > Jewish intelligence is also unique in its loading on verbal IQ versus   
   > performance IQ. Though Jews have an average intelligence of 115, they have   
   > verbal skills closer to an average 125.6, with a more normal performance IQ   
   > closer to 100. This is highly unusual as most races usually have about equal   
   > verbal and performance IQs. This fact seems to indicate that the "Jews are a   
   > self-selected minority group, and their high intelligence is the result of   
   > self selection, not natural selection," according to Howard Metzenberg.   
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   >   
   > In summary then, eugenics is and has been a very useful tool for improving   
   > human intelligence, resulting in the Jewish race that is the most successful   
   > people on a host of social indicators like income, wealth, political power,   
   > etc., according to Jewish scholars. There is also no indication that this   
   > success and high intelligence has anything to do with Jewish culture because   
   > there is no monolithic Jewish culture. Jews as a race span a great deal of   
   > different cultures and life histories, and they have found themselves in   
   > varying ecological niches and cultures. From the Marxist secularist to the   
      
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