[quote]hspder wrote:
They are not crocodile tears, and I have every reason to take personal issue over it.
There is a proven strong correlation between race and income. Unfortunately, the truth is that generally, Blacks and Hispanics have the lowest incomes (low/low-middle class on average), Asians are in the middle and Whites are in the upper/upper-middle class of incomes.
So if your assumption WAS correct, it would automatically imply that Blacks and Hispanics are dumber than Asians which in turn are dumber than Whites, by simple implication.[/quote]
Professor, use your brain - despite you wanting to read in some latent racism into my theory, nowhere was I suggesting that we are talking about “dumbness” as the raw, genetic brainpower born into a human. We have been - or at least I thought we were - discussing it in terms of putting that brainpower to work via getting and utilizing an education in combination with natural brainpower.
And if it stands to reason that most people are idiots, I think a safe assumption is that people with less education are likely more idiotic than their educated idiotic brethren.
If - educationally and income-wise - that falls along racial lines in a way that you don’t like, that is a separate argument - because here you are confusing cause with correlation. This is not a mistake I would expect from a man who is always boasting about his three PhDs. If blacks and Hispanics occupy these bottom rungs, there are other reasons why other than racial limitations - it could be because of discrimination, language barriers, etc. But that is irrelevant to the purpose of the discussion.
We only care who is the most idiotic in order to measure how they vote. If you are going to make a claim that ‘stupid people vote a certain way’ - which you did - we need to figure out the sample group. If it happens to be blacks, whites, Hispanics, Asians, who cares - I am only interested in who the most dumb are to see if they vote for the dumb candidate.
And if I seem callous by dropping the word ‘idiot’ so casually, it’s intentional - I am trying to act within the framework of your theory and your label. I believe the people you label idiots aren’t quite as stupid as you posit, and if you ever get brave enough to venture outside of your self-affirming cloister of Stanford and the Bay Area, you may actually realize that. But baby steps - one of the unwashed masses may actually come into contact with your skin, so go easy at first.
Fabulous - when it comes to race, you are get your hackles up. You reserve the right to be a pompous, sneering bigot when it comes to nearly everything else that exists outside your bubble - i.e., idiots who vote for rhesus monkeys, etc. - but mention race, and the train stops in its tracks.
Color me unimpressed.
Since your best answer to this point seems to be a non-answer - i.e., you have no idea who the idiots are or any way to measure who is an idiot, but you can apparently explain how they think and what they do with a fair amount of precision amazingly - perhaps you could tell me who isn’t an idiot and how you measure that?
Let’s do this - you can at least explain why you aren’t an idiot and you are immune to all these cognitive biases so inherent in all these idiots running around.
