Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Controversial Ideas: Charles Murray Challenges the Mainstream Narrative" video.

 @MadnessMotorcycle Better take Naledi Pandor seriously.
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 @JIMDEZWAV Assange agrees.
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I lived in socialist France under Mitterrand. I was vastly happier than here. It was safe, sane, and 6th graders could study ancient Greek to boot. Lycée gave high school students the opportunity to study the first two years of university mathematics. Their free preschool was considered the best in the world. Gourmet lunches were included.
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@RonaldSkancke VAT (value added tax) was significant, and everyone supported it because it benefitted everyone. Education tends to florish under real socialism. France and USSR both created tons of top mathematicians, and literacy (ability to read AND reading as a pastime) was high. Mélenchon supports bringing Latin and Greek back to the official lycée program. Just saw a report on an Indian news channel yesterday that the French aren't even romantic (ahem) anymore. It's a lot like America now. No guns, so mass stabbings instead, sometimes even preceded by social media declarations.
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By the way, they still had obligatory universal military service back then, though you could choose certain social service alternatives once you completed the basics. You could be a medic, teach French in Africa, work at an embassy, stuff like that. I think it was 18 months. I forget. Of course university was tuition-free for everyone, even for non-French.
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Murray challenges the mainstream narrative? This IS the mainstream narrative. As for the kids, they never read anything.
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@ericarn Whites have nothing going for them anymore, so they have to pull out this. That was always how race functioned. That is is purpose. In the UK, the different social classes function like races.
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 @matane2465 Those aren't races.
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@PrezVeto No, actually, everything is not a social construct in the same sense. Ethnolinguistic groups have observable criteria that distinguish them and do not depend on racial ideology. Justin E. H. Smith wrote about the rise of the modern concept of race around the time of Shakespeare's late plays. We know from ancient Greek sources, notably Homer, that no such idea existed back then. The Nubians ruled Egypt at the time, and the Greeks saw no "racial" difference. They assumed color was from the sun.
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@PrezVeto I like how you combined "culture" and "education," which are two distinct things. It is impossible to devise a test that is "unaffected" by education, and culture, in turn, affects educational practices. Education begins at birth, and by age 7, all human children have acquired the core grammar of their first language. This in itself changes the very architecture of the brain permanently. It is only then that you can attempt to test "IQ." But by then, a child's brain is profoundly changed. But that's not the only time you find profound changes in response to the environment: adolescence is another. As it turns out, a person's fundamental cognitive abilities aren't typically discernable at 7 but at about 27. The kids whose cultures valued cultivating calm concentration and who read an extra hour or two per day and who learned more than one language and more than one alphabet over a period of two decades have very different brains than those who did not. All of the stuff you're spouting belongs to a time when it was wrongly believed that we were born with all of our neurons. Oops.
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@UniverseExp91 The opposite is true. Ethnic groups are distinguishable objectively, based on ancestral tribal migrations and ancestral languages. Race is something that was made up in the 16th century in Western Europe. Even the Russians found it dubious: hence, Pushkin.
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@PrezVeto You have better things to do? Why does that sound like the most dubious thing you've said in a string of dubious things?
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@MsGreenmermaid No, it didn't, actually. The modern concept of race did not exist before the Early Modern period (circa 1500) in Europe. Justin E. H. Smith is the person to read on that. You must have never read the Illiad or the Odyssey with any attention if you think modern racialism has always existed. Racism and in-group chauvinism are not the same thing.
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@PrezVeto How do you explain the studies that show that at most half of intelligence is genetic, not anywhere near 80%? Or the fact that the methods used to assess the relative contribution of genes and environment to cognitive talent appear to change in favor of genes in adulthood, when one should expect the exact opposite if the methodology were sound --- at least until late adulthood at any rate? One interesting conjecture is that what we inherit is a fascination with learning, as an activity, rather than any preset template for what we learn. But then, childhood IQ doesn't mean much. And you can kill the desire to learn in a young person, can’t you?
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@MsGreenmermaid Biases, yes, based on any highly visible characteristic. That is true.
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@PrezVeto Right. You've got nothing to respond with. I knew that. For those who might mistakenly believe this person's use of Big Words and snide tone mean he actually knows something, read up on adult neurogenesis. The NIH has a series of important articles on the topic in its free library. Some of the most important parts of the brain generate new neurons throughout life, unless the person is suffering from some form of dementia. The popular accounts usually use the phrase "brain plasticity." If you go that route, be sure to pick something by an actual neurologist.
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@JaneFleesTexas If you want a good laugh, try to find the IQs of famous people. The IQ cult then goes on to estimate them for people who never took one, like Einstein and da Vinci! They expect the readers to be so smart that they do not spot circular logic. Horoscopes of famous people make more sense. At least birth dates were actually recorded. 😅🤣🤣
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@danklordsupreme8864 The humans that exist today did not originate separately at all. We originated in eastern Africa and spread throughout the world.
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Question: Is Murray poor? Is Stossel? A person who challenged the mainstream narrative is in jail in the UK.
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