Luke Ford

The Canadian psychology professor writes:

Jews are genuinely over-represented in positions of authority, competence and influence. New York Jews, in particular, snap up a disproportionate number of Nobel prizes (see this Times of Israel article), and Jews are disproportionately eligible for admission at elite universities, where they, along with Asians, tend to be discriminated against (see this Newsweek article). It’s possible that we should be happy about this, rather than annoyed: is the fact that smart people are working hard for our mutual advancement really something to feel upset? What, exactly, is the preferable alternative? In any case, the radical/identity-politics right wingers regard such accomplishment as evidence of a conspiracy. It hardly needs to be said that although conspiracies do occasionally occur, conspiracy theories are the lowest form of intellectual enterprise. Is there another, more credible explanation? Yes. Three well-documented factors in fact appear to be at play:

a) The significantly higher than average IQ of Ashkenazi Jews (see this article in the Economist for a credible layman’s analysis; for a scientific take (one of many) see Gregory Cochran’s work: abstract and full paper). Consider that IQ is the most powerful single determinant of long-term socioeconomic success and influence (my lab has published on this issue). Consider also that the effect of a mean or average difference in IQ is dramatically increased at the tails of the distribution, so that a 10-15 point difference produces increasingly large inequalities in group representation in proportion to the degree that a given job requires higher general cognitive ability. This means that proportional Jewish over-representation increases as the demand for IQ increases. Simply put: if a very complex job or role requires an IQ of 145, three standard deviations above the mean and characteristic of less than one percent of the general population, then a group with a higher average IQ will be exceptionally over-represented in such enterprises.

b) The relationship between IQ and Big Five trait Openness to Experience. Openness to Experience is one of the five cardinal personality traits (Wikipedia will fill you in rapidly if you need more info). Openness to Experience has often been considered the reflection of general cognitive ability or intelligence in personality. It’s what you are referring to when you describe someone as thoughtful, smart, artistic or philosophical. People with high IQs tend overwhelmingly to be higher in trait Openness to Experience (particularly in the Openness to Experience aspect of Intellect (Dr. Colin DeYoung’s lab spearheaded a paper on this issue).

c) The relationship between Openness to Experience and political liberalism: Political affiliation is importantly associated with personality. Conservatives/right-wingers tend to be high in Conscientiousness (particularly in the Conscientiousness aspect of Orderliness) and low in Openness to Experience while liberals/left-wingers tend to have the reverse pattern (low Conscientiousness (particularly aspect Orderliness) and high Openness to Experience. The story is somewhat more complicated than that (which we also reviewed), but that covers the basics.

So, what’s the story? No conspiracy. Get it? No conspiracy. Jewish people are over-represented in positions of competence and authority because, as a group, they have a higher mean IQ. The effect of this group difference (approximately the difference between the typical high school student and the typical state college student) is magnified for occupations/interests that require high general cognitive ability. Equal over-representation may also occur in political movements associated with the left, because high IQ is associated with Openness to Experience, which is in turn associated with liberal/left-leaning political proclivities.

There is no evidence whatsoever that Ashkenazi Jews are over-represented in any occupations/interests for reasons other than intelligence and the associated effects of intelligence on personality and political belief. Thus, no conspiratorial claims based on ethnic identity need to be given credence.

Readers interested in such issues may also be interested in a broader recent critique of the idea of Jewish conspiracy: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy: A Critical Analysis of Kevin MacDonald’s Theory

Update April 24 2018: A recent critic attempted to take my argument apart arithmetically:

He stated: Different ethnic groups act in a nepotistic manner at differing levels. Some do so more than others.

Your argument is essentially that identity politics does matter not. But it does to Jews, who’s religion and ethnic identity are especially important to them. They even base their whole identity around their victimization in the past by gentiles (Romen Empire, Christians, the Holocaust). Yet, you’re trying to tell us those who play into identity politics are losers? That’s the first problem I’m seeing because even Jews don’t believe that.

Second, if Jews are high IQ, and that means they are more likely to be in positions of power, that would explain their prevalence. Yet, there are VASTLY more white gentiles that have equal or higher IQs than your average Jews. We can do simple math to prove this. If there are 6 million Jews in the United States with an average IQ of 115 (so 3 million are 115+) and there are 200+ million white gentiles with an average IQ of 105 IQ (so roughly 30% are 115+ IQ). So 200 million x .30 gives us 60,000,000 whites with an IQ of 115+. So, we would think, if all things being equal, then that whites would proportionally represented in positions of power commensurate with their IQ and numbers. Jews should, according to the idea that IQ leads to representation in positions of power, should be 5% or so of millionaires (3 million Jews / 60 million gentiles at 115+). But this is not the case. Jews make up a disproportionate number of millionaires and billionaires (40% according to Forbes) according to the IQ theory Jordan B. Peterson is utilizing.

What explains this? Ethnic nepotism, i.e. identity politics. Jews priviliege others Jews with access to power, money, and positions to perpetuate Jewish influence in America.

Yet, Jordan Peterson is telling us there is no idea of Jewish power in America. That’s simply not true when we all know the world runs on money, and no one knows this better than the Jews. That’s why our foreign policy has been about securing Israel’s security. That’s why our politicians get money from AIPAC. Why we send billions to Isarel every year. Why our relationship with the Muslim world has declined because of this one-sided affair.

Here’s my response:

Your cutoff for high IQ is far too low. Try 145 (the figure I cite for serious intellectual advantage) and see how that works. That’s three standard deviations above the general population of mean of 100, not the 115 (one standard deviation) you used. One standard deviation above the average is helpful — it puts you in college — but it’s nothing compared to three standard deviations (in part because of the operation of the Pareto principle).

Three standard deviations advantage for the general population puts an individual at 99.9%. That’s .001 of the population, so .001 X 200,000,000 (using your figures) = 200,000 “white gentiles” with an IQ of 145 or more.

Two standard deviations advantage for the Jewish population (with an estimated mean IQ of 115) means an IQ above 97.7% of the Jewish population. That’s .023 of the population, so .023 X 6.000,000 = 138,000

138,000/(200,000+138,000) = 138,000/338,000 = 40.8% of the 145+ IQ population is Jewish. And you said “40% of millionaires and billionaires are Jewish.”

Isn’t it something how those figures dovetail?

MP3 from my appearance a few months ago.

Frame Game:
Halsey:
JF Gariepy:
John Macintyre

Analyzing The Jewish Question.

I am not in the business of white advocacy or Alt Right advocacy or Jewish advocacy. I stand outside of activism and offer thoughts.

Andy Warski: “I made Halsey [English] the house Jew.”

My live reactions:

* Frame Game mainly wants to talk frame, John wants to talk statistical scholarship, JF wants to talk genetics.

* I’m not aware of significant differences in Jewish-Gentile attitudes to immigration and politics once you account for IQ and urban living.

* Contrary to @FrameGames’s claim, Israel never banned gay marriage & out marriage, there is just no mechanism for it inside Israel (but you can do it outside Israel and bring it into Israel) as there was no mechanism for it in Palestine prior to 1948.

* @JFGariepy says Jews collectively are a problem because most Jews have a primary allegiance to other Jews rather than to their gentile country of citizenship but he presents no evidence. Jews out-marry at over 60%.

* @JFGariepy says Jews are hyper-ethnocentric and yet they out-marry at over 60% in USA. So how are Jews so ethnocentric when many white groups out-marry at 10% rates?

* @HalseyEnglish says 85% of American Jews are Reform and not really Jewish… I think he means 85% are not Orthodox… Most non-Orthodox Jews are genetically Jewish and many practice some Jewish traditions.

* @FrameGames talks about six months of mandatory Holocaust education. Three weeks is more like it.

* There’s no statistical difference in attitudes between Jewish Republicans and gentile Republicans and between Jewish Democrats and gentile Democrats.

* @FrameGames: “There is a vast difference between Jews with institutional power [and those Jews who do not].”

* John MacIntyre: “Institutional Jewry are advocating these [anti-white policies].”

* @FrameGames: “You need to sign a pledge to a foreign country [Israel] to play ball in [American politics].”

* @FrameGames: “Name me a major person who has run for political office [on a platform of white advocacy].”

* “Technically, David Duke did, but I was ready for that. For example, he won his campaign for Louisiana legislature, even with the full might of American media against him.”

* @FrameGames: “To make it in the world today as a white person, you have to kick the white people beneath you to increase your social standing.”

* @FrameGames: “What is good for the Jews is a strong cohesive white society with a smattering of diversity.”

* @FrameGames: “When was Trump at his most on his knees deferential? In his speeches to AIPAC.”

* @JFGariepy says Jews should be silent about white nationalism and yet 95% of American Jews identify as white.

I've seen many of the course names literally called Holocaust Studies. It's lumped in with "Genocide Studies," with a primary focus on the Holocaust.

— Frame Game Radio (❤️) (@FrameGames) April 25, 2018

Kind of a distinction without a difference IMO, but we can chat about it

— Frame Game Radio (❤️) (@FrameGames) April 25, 2018

Seventy five minutes into this recent podcast, Counter-Currents Editor Greg Johnson says: “Both [Jared] Kushner and [Carl] Icahn are orthodox Jews. If you poll orthodox Jews, orthodox Jews are more willing to entertain white rights, meaning the rightness of white people wanting to discriminate against non-whites in their neighborhoods, their schools, in employment, immigration, so forth, than your average white person. That’s 25% of orthodox Jews who says that is ok, that’s five times the percentage of white Americans who says that is ok. These people are significantly less hostile to white interests than white people are. You can’t hope that orthodox Jews will help white people. They got into the halls of power and they did the stuff easiest to do — strikes in Syria, recognizing Israel’s capital as Jerusalem, which I don’t think is a bad thing, and the tax bill, which wasn’t a bad tax bill…”

Question: “Why don’t you think acknowledging Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is a bad thing?”

Greg: “I don’t think it is the business of a foreign country to recognize or not recognize what a sovereign nation says their capital city. Not recognizing [Jerusalem] struck me as the height of arrogance. If we are going to have diplomatic relations with this country, they should be allowed to say what their capital is.”

“When Trump said he was going to do it, I said what the hell. It shouldn’t be the sort of thing that matters that much to us. It’s indicative of how his administration has drifted away from his America First vision to the same Jewish hegemony with a different crew of Jews, Orthodox Jews rather than secular Jews.”

I asked Kevin MacDonald for his reaction to Greg’s point that Orthodox Jews, on average, are more pro-white than whites. He replied: “Sounds reasonable. But they also aggressively fight for their interests against Whites in local school districts, etc.”

Richard Spencer tells me: “That’s a reasonable inference, but a bit deceptive. What have Orthodox Jews done for us in power? Would they accept the creation of an Ethno-state? Doubtful.”

Andrew Joyce tells me: “Johnson has no expertise in this area. He’s just an eloquent homosexual poseur. That I disagree with him on this shouldn’t surprise you.”

[A Jewish friend: “Yes. To an erlicher Torah Jew, the idea of belonging to a tribe and defending tribal interests is the most natural thing in the world, totally unlike say, what a Roman Catholic Prelate must (meant in every sense) think. Torah Jews really don’t want dusky ones around them no matter who they are. Too bad that by the time the Torah Jews find themselves in the majority among American Jews, the dusky ones will make up the majority of American goyim.”]