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>average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? Growing up in poverty, which many minorities do in this country, has been linked with lower IQ. Criminal populations are 8 IQ points below the mean. Whether there's a connection here is beyond me, but I really hate how people play up the hysterical political correctness card to censor these types of discussions. In many countries, raising people out of pover…
I'm doing the opposite of censoring them: I'm bringing them up for discussion, and making sure we DO discuss race issues. Eric Raymond is on the record as having said a hell of a lot of other racist stuff. Remember his full throated defense (employing the dog-whistle term "thug") of Russ Nelson's infamous "Blacks are Lazy" essay that was such an embarrassment to the open source software community? https://en.wikipedi…
I don't know if he's right or not, but the idea is conceivably plausible. Suppose a white person can work 40 hours a week and make enough to live in a tier 1 neighborhood with a tier 1 lifestyle when it comes to physical goods, and suppose because blacks get lower pay for the same work, a black person would need 60 hours a week for that lifestyle.
If the black person only does 40 hours, like the white person, the black person can only afford a tier 2 neighborhood. Now what if the black person figures out that if he lived in a tier 3 neighborhood, he'd only need 30 hours a week?
If the gap between the quality of the neighborhood and goods affordable in tier 3 and tier 2 is relatively small, especially compared to the gap between tier 2 and tier 1, then going for tier 3 and trading away a small bit of housing and goods quality for an extra 10 hours to spend with family and friends or personal interests might easily be worth it to many.
For the white person, dropping from 40 to 30 hours would kick them from tier 1 to tier 2, which is a much bigger drop, and might not be worth gaining 10 hours of family and friend time.
So you end up in a situation where whites have a single peak in their work vs happiness curve at 40 hours. Blacks have two peaks: 30 hours for tier 3, or 60 hours for tier 1.
Using the term "lazy" for those who opt for tier 3 was a mistake. He doesn't seem to be trying to use it as a pejorative. I think he was thinking more along the lines of The Dude or Cosmo Kramer style laziness.
