Daer Kati,

Re: good luck to growing your mind and spirit.

Ha? Are you talking to me? How does one grow a spirit? But, let us stop the subject of patronizing and move on.

Your last post repeats every cliche I've heard from people who devote much time to thinking and less time to studying the issue they're commenting about. But beyond cliches, your post contains a dangerous assertion:

" As for affirmative action, we Jews have accepted compensation from Germany. When I was young I refused it, but as I got a bit older and wiser, I realized it's a good righteous thing to compensate for previously inflicted injuries."

Are you kidding me? We Jews have not accepted compensation. INDIVIDUAL Jews who had been able to prove that they personally suffered physical or material harm from the German Army got compensation.

No way the compensation my grandmother received for the property she'd lost when the Germans invaded her town and for the hardship she experienced running away from them is affirmative action. A righteous thing is to compensate victims. I'm the first after-war generation and I don't consider myself a victim and neither does the German government. So please stop this really outrageous, offensive, nonsesical, dangerous disinformation.

Then you write, "by the way, studies after studies in the US have shown that there is absolutely no correlation between one's score on the SAT and future performance at university --yet another mark against "intelligence" tests.

Cite sources please. SAT tests allow admissions officers to predict if a student would survive this particular university. The "future performance" of all admitted students at a given university is not highly correlated to SAT--after all admitted students are closely alighned (with the help of SAT) when it comes to intelligence.

Your relatives died in the Holocaust and my relatives ran for their life because they were perseived as competition by the Nazi. The Nazis had at first administered IQ tests to prove Jewish deficiency, but stopped the testing quickly after they realized that the results were showing...

Guess what they were showing. I'm sure you know what they were showing. Everyone can guess what they were showing.