If you grow up Jewish in the diaspora, you are likely to identify with Jews and develop contempt for the goyim, or you will identify with the goyim and develop contempt for Jews. I understand equally well both of these possibilities. The third possibility — of growing up happy with your Jewish identity and feeling equally happy with the majority culture — is not one I understand. Perhaps that reveals something dark about my psychology. I don’t understand someone identifying strongly as Jewish or Christian or Muslim or black or gay and being equally thrilled with the majority culture around them.
If you grow up on an Orthodox Jew, you will likely continue to grow your Jewish identity and have many negative feelings about the goyim. If you grow up Jewish outside of Orthodoxy, you will likely increasingly identify with the majority culture and develop contempt for Judaism.
Social Identity Theory teaches us that the more you identify with something such as Jewish identity, the less favorable you will be to outsiders.
A friend says: “Two poles, each pole attracts some people. Sometimes both attract the same person.”
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Steve Sailer writes: Speaking of Darwinian selection pressures in sprinting vs. distance running abilities, commenter “mourning in america” sends along cop body camera footage of a very serious footrace between Marcus Vick, former Virginia Tech quarterback and the younger brother of NFL star Michael Vick, and some policemen who can’t match his time in the 40. Marcus was never as fast as Michael, but his 4.47 second time in the 40 yard dash is a lot faster than the average policeman’s.
Like I was saying, sprinting ability is most useful with moderately complex ground cover into which the superior sprinter can effectively disappear. In more open terrain, the better distance runner is likely to be able to track down the tired sprinter.
COMMENTS:
* In what kind of environment would this strategy work?
So you run off into the trees…..and then what? Live in the jungle for the rest of your life? Hope that the people in the village or whatever forget about you?
It’s hard to see how the be-a-jackass-and-then-sprint-away strategy would work. The villagers would be on the lookout for the jackass, and would probably kill him the next time he showed up.
* In general, particularly in 21st century, it would be insane to run from the cops. In his case, though, since we’re talking about running, if they didn’t already know who he was, and were it not for the cameras, helicopters, etc. there is a decent chance he could’ve gotten away. Even though he had stopped and sat down, he was clearly less winded for his run than the cops, so I don’t buy into the ideas that the cops could’ve outdistanced him, particularly if he shook the trail. People here are also thinking about 1 run and done sprinters when they should be thinking about a Michael Vick type QB who has to sprint, dodge, jump, and sprint some more, again and again over the course of a few hours. Just because he’s good at sprinting, doesn’t mean he’s below “normals” at distance running. He likely excels there, too, but not as much so as he does at sprinting. Most people, probably most cops included, are gonna tire out more from a half mile or mile run than he would.
As you said earlier, a few twists and turns could be all it would take to slip away. In terms of simply looking for a black guy matching his description, probably quite a few black guys his age around town match to a first approximation for most people, and if he had any sense at all, he’d switch up his appearance at the first opportunity after a stunt like that.
* I think a lot of football and basketball players start to develop a bit of a God Complex in middle and high school, especially if they were as good as these two at their sport. For blacks its probably a double whammy as many whites are bending over backwards looking for a reason to shower praise on them.
Universities will really roll out the red carpet for talented football players, overlook all sorts of infractions, hot girls will cling to them constantly, etc. Its probably easy for them to start to feel like they can do whatever they want whenever they want, and get into all kinds of trouble.
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It started with my complaining to Jesse Singal about a table he posted, of an analysis of body camera effects on police killings. The content isn't really important.
@steve_hanke@jessesingal You gonna seriously tweet that w/ no link to details? E.g., I missed where the "because" is on that table…
It’s typical and racist because it takes two disparate things – which each have their own whole set of issues and debates – and uses them to draw the obvious racist conclusion they started with in the first place: Blacks are dumb and violent. (If you don’t then “refute” these assertions then you can’t handle the truth – and if you try to respond you go down a rabbit hole of racist memes.) There is no point in arguing substance with someone who starts like this.
I didn’t even realize what JRT was responding to – I assumed it was about my latest blog post, which was about civility in cross-racial interactions at Hershey Park:
“This post combines my love of vacations (context), my habit of taking pictures of people in public places (data)*, and my sociological tendency to invent big conclusions from minor events (theory). As with last year’s selfie post , I hope you don’t take from this that I don’t really love vacations.”
Anyway, didn’t matter. He has 10,000 followers, and he summoned them with a couple common memes. One shows high Asian incomes, supposed to show that “white privilege is a lie”:
Martin Van Creveld writes: Delicate souls that they are, women need to be protected against “’objectification” and “verbal abuse.” Women need to be protected against cunning pimps who first promise them the earth and then enslave them. Women need to be protected against photographers who promise to turn them into models but do not deliver. Women need to be protected against having their naked pics published on the Net (I hereby formally grant permission to anybody who has a pic of mine to do so; I shall even be happy to provide him or her with one).
Women need to be protected against “economic terrorism.” Women need to be protected against wicked, but charismatic and clever, men who first promise them marriage and then disappear with their, the women’s, money, or turn out to be married already, or both. Women need to be protected against male physicians, psychologists, gurus, university professors, teachers, coaches, and masseurs, all of whom, which God forbid, first cause them to become “dependent” on themselves and then try to “exploit them by having sex with them.
Women need to be protected against their own preference for convicted male criminals (as shown by the fact that such criminals tend to have more offspring than average, mostly because they have more partners). Women need to be protected against the possible consequences of their taste in dress and comportment (they are, it seems, too dumb to understand those consequences on their own). So stupid are some women that they only understand that they have been “raped” years after the event, and often after some lawyer tells them they can make money by suing. Once they do, they have to be protected from confronting their alleged attackers in court and also from having their own names revealed. Women need to be protected against “offensive” speech, including, no doubt, this essay. So numerous are the things women must be protected against that I found it impossible to put them in any kind of logical order. In short, women are seen—and, what is much worse, see themselves—as complete idiots incapable of looking after themselves.
However, there is a catch. Men are physically stronger than women. As the fact that they commit most violent crimes shows, men also tend to be considerably more aggressive and more assertive on the average. By some accounts, this is likely to remain the case not only in our world but even in one where our place is taken by computers. That is why, when the chips are down, only men can protect women against other men; also why, throughout history, countless men have died to protect women whereas the opposite has rarely ever been the case. The more protection women demand and receive, the more dependent on their protectors and the less equal and free they become.
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Steve Sailer writes: You are often told that if you look at a map, you can see that it’s a law of nature that the United States of America must fill up with Mexicans. You almost never hear anybody suggest that the map implies that Mexico must fill up with Americans, which would seem more likely a priori.
How do the Mexicans keep the gringos from inundating Mexico? Some of its by law, some of its by violent lawlessness, but a lot is by a sort of passive-aggressive cruddiness: nobody is too sure who owns what land, the streets are dangerous to cross if you aren’t young and nimble, the hospitals are kind of inept, and so forth and so on.
Former foreign secretary Jorge Castaneda suggested that if Mexico were to try to make the country more appealing to American retirees, they’d find they had made the country better for Mexicans. But that idea hasn’t proven popular.
"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff)
