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Working class a bunch of thickos, says evolutionary psychiatrist
Posted by daniel23 • 5/24/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: bigotry, class war, pseudo-science
Says Bruce Charlton, Newcastle University:
“The UK government has spent a great deal of time and effort in asserting that universities, especially Oxford and Cambridge, are unfairly excluding people from low social-class backgrounds and privileging those from higher social classes. Yet in all this debate, a simple and vital fact has been missed: higher social classes have a significantly higher average IQ than lower social classes.”
news.scotsman.com/uk/Working-classes-are-less-.4108730.jp
Thanks to Aningeniusname for pointing this news story out to me! Fcuking incredible!
From my post in reply:
"The criminalisation of everyday life, plus a policy of multicultural racial seperatism, plus virulent anti-working class bias now taking on pseudo-scientific clothes is leading to a situation of a nightmarish police state organised along caste lines as inflexible as those in the Medieval times. [...] If this quack had said what he’d said about non-Caucasians, he would have lost his job. But he aimed his sights at a very, very acceptable target — working people. It doesn’t matter if we’re black or white or brown — we are the ENEMY WITHIN."
englishsocialism.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/is-havin-a-tuf-time-finkin-abawt-...
I think this is absolutely fascinating and kind of inevitable. After all, the ruling class had to come up with some way to explain the growing class inequality world-wide.
So what do you think? Naturally violent thicko I am, I'd personally like to take an iron bar to the Nutty Prof.'s head. 
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IQ is a flawed testing system, it measures only one type of "smarts"
www.fairtest.org/board-critiques-use-iq-tests
www.bignerds.com/essays/Why-IQ-tests-do-not-test-intelligence/ -
I was born into a working class family and around working and middle class people most of my life. I'm afraid they don't do much to alter this perception as ignorant fools who need to be dominated by their kings. It's funny to even say it as most working class people I know are so brainwashed they really don't believe there is a such thing as a class system and are barely conscious of socio-economic status. Anyway, while they are watching Bill O'Reily and worried about immigrants, homosexual marriage, terrorists, ufos etc, the ruling class are getting away with murder. While the working class are looking to see what Britney is up to, the ruling class are robbing us blind. While the working class is voting for American Idol, the elite are making deals and influencing public policy that will make them even richer and push us further down the gutter.
Of course I'm not saying limited intelligence is innate to one particular socio-economic group but I really wish the middle and working classes would act in a way which doesn't encourage those at the top to think even less of than they already do.-
Pffft, watch one episode of that show with Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie and tell me that the higher social class is more intelligent.
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Bravo, Daniel. I often feel that there is a sort of class warfare against the so-called "working class."
The trouble with the upper crust is that you have ubiquitous offspring that do nothing to earn what they have and thus (for the most part - there are exceptions) fail to appreciate the lessons that got them this far. That and inbreeding (at least in the old days, like with the DuPont's).-
the aristocrats in England are a bunch of thick inbred weirdos and pervos. I'm sure its' the same in the USA.
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That sort of attitude is part of the reason that many of my ancestors pulled up stakes and moved west.
I do think that there is a (very, very, tiny) kernel of truth to it - in open societies, there is a tendency for people with useful smarts to make more money than nitwits.
Then, there are people like Paris Hilton - but celebrities are a whole different thing.
What I think is a huge mistake is lowering academic standards to be more 'inclusive.' That is, in my view, a sort of soft prejudice that seems kindly, but implies that 'those people' really are stupid.
And, since I'm 'those people,' I rather resent that.-
We don't live in a "open society" though. The "smarts" it takes to become vastly wealthy by the stock exchange are, in social and moral terms, far inferior to the "smarts" of the carpenter or the plumber or the nurse or the midwife or the electrician.
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So you have one person making these claims. It'd be interesting if those claims were gaining traction. Then you'd have something to be mad about. But does anyone take this guy seriously? Or is a case of someone trying to make a career by being controversial? Personally, scholars who rip stuff out of context drive me crazy. Did he consider the problems with his data? Yuk.
Give 'im hell.-
Indeed.
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I think he's voicing what has become a common sentiment amongst the Western managerial/intellectual "Nomenklatura".
To quote an Irish-English group called Red Action:
"...the political acceptance of the idea of the ‘underclass as a race apart’, has allowed the political establishment on both sides of the Atlantic to explain the growing inequality in a society formally committed to equality. And with as consequence society itself ‘proved’ nigh on perfect, the logical next step was to racialise the poor. With the ‘dangerous classes’ categorised, it then became apparent that in order for middle class society to feel at ease with itself, the ‘threat’ would in the mean time have to be substantially diminished ie the working class itself would need be politically presented as just another minority."
www.redaction.org/race_and_class/race_attack.html
Remember Blair calling for kids to be identified as "trouble makers" at an early age by genetic testing? I think we're seeing the creation of a permanent underclass with no political or social voice. -
Course some people attribute their success to hard work, not biology. That's okay, though I get annoyed when a sense of moral superiority creeps in, and some start blaming the poor's poverty on their own supposed slothfulness and moral turpitude.
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