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Re: Galtonian:
by galtonian

Dear Olethros,

Thank you for your reasoned arguments against my view that class and race/ethnicity based differences in academic performance are mainly due to class and race/ethnicity based differences in innate IQ-type intelligence.

Now you have convinced me that I am probably totally mistakened. I realize now that Jews and Chinese are actually no more intelligent than anyone else, they just work really hard and behave themselves in class in order to pretend like they are smart. Blacks and Hispanics are really no less intelligent than anyone else, they are just fooling people into thinking that they are less smart by goofing off and misbehaving in class. Hah Hah, now I get the joke! Okay blacks and Hispanics are really good at math, but they are just pretending to be less intelligent so as to fool everybody. But now that I realize how smart they really are, I should contact the faculty at Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, Stanford and Caltech and let them in on the joke. I am going to tell them about how blacks and Hispanics are just fooling everybody into thinking that they are less intelligent. When these colleges learn of this ruse, they will stop admitting so many Jews and Asians (about half or more of their students) and start admitting way more of these black and Hispanic jokesters who are actually way more smart than they are letting on. These college admissions officials need to realize that a black or Hispanic who gets a 450 math-SAT score is actually just as smart as a Jew or Asian who gets a 750 or even an 800; the black and Hispanic dudes are just holding back to pretend like their IQs are low so as to fool everybody.

Thank you again for revealing the truth to me about how all races, ethnic groups, and social classes actually have the same level of IQ-type intelligence. How could I have been so blindly stupid to have believed that blacks on average have lower IQs than Jews and Chinese.

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