Message from @Willem Petzer
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Has anyone here read The Bell Curve?
@Jerm All good that we post your content on our own timelines while you in FB timeout?
Please share away. I really don't mind at all. I'm not precious about the stuff being on my personal timeline.
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@lambdalizard ππ² Is it good?
It's long π It's an 800-page book published in 1994 which tries to describe the class structure in American society. Mostly it argues that intelligence is a major predictor of just about everything (income, occupation, family structure, criminal activity)
Racists, eugenicists and edgelords frequently cite the parts (out of context, obviously) about the IQ differences between race groups. Most recently, there was a guy given a 5-minute interview on NPR (Jason Kessler iirc) who quoted the book.
I just got ahold of a copy and I'm scanning through it
I'm reading it because of this
The US media has lost their collective shit because NPR (public radio) gave a "platform" to this guy
The core of the freakout was when Kessler quoted some of the results from The Bell Curve. Apparently, that was enough to issue trigger warnings before the broadcast and set the media landscape on fire
Awe
Watsup willem
Watching the doc right nowπ itβs good so far
@Willem Petzer Hallo Willem, random vraag, was jy op Affies?
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Hallo Rooikat
Aweh
Good documentary - very informative and nicely filmed.
@Andre ja ek was
@Willem Petzer Was ook, maar so bietjie voor jou
@lambdalizard ππ² @Jerm pdf copy of the BellCurve in the link below.
https://lesacreduprintemps19.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/the-bell-curve.pdf
Discussing this gave me an instaban in Twitter so tread carefully bois!
But this is just fine.
yip... feelsbadman
Please share far and wide. This is a leaked document from the Department Of Land Reform, listing farms to be taken. Some owners have been contacted already. One of the farms is even a stud farm.