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   David Duke is white and therefore mentally inferior to Jews and Asians.   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   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.)   
      
   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."   
      
   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."   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   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 religiously orthodox, as a people they have on   
   average an extremely high IQ. No one has been able to duplicate a   
   "culture" that can boost IQ by a standard deviation generation after   
   generation. Intelligence is in the genes.   
      
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