Comments by "Peter Lund" (@peterfireflylund) on "Why is the AfD Doing So Well With Young Voters?" video.

AfD isn’t “far right”, either.
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@daft5670 propaganda works on a lot of people, apparently. You being one of them…
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Perhaps you shouldn’t be calling a normal centrist party a “Nazi party”? Edit: typo.
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@Jakolo121 switch to the much more sensible media in Austria and Switzerland for a year and see if you still feel the same…
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@irtakus seen from the outside (I speak German but I am not German), Germany is a crazy place with the most extreme state media I’ve seen outside of the DDR, the Soviet Union, Russia, China (I speak and read some Chinese), and North Korea. Switch to Austrian and Swiss media for a year and you’ll probably be able to see it, too. The courts aren’t exactly normal, neutral, or law abiding, either. I don’t believe any of the judges are directly controlled or bought puppets. I believe most of them are as crazy as your journalists.
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@irtakus practically zero people knew that that particular slogan — which had also been used by other political parties — had ever been used by the SA. It is something as neutral as “Alles für Deutschland”. That does not actually make anybody “far right” or “Nazi”.
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@irtakus it is unclear what you mean by “race science” and unscientific. We actually know a lot about DNA differences and there are basically one huge division: sub-Saharan Africans and everybody else. There are other divisions, for example between the most widespread modern Africans and the small peoples who have their land stolen by the Bantu Explosion. We also absolutely know that humans are animals like all other animals and as such react to evolutionary pressures (and that evolution doesn’t stop above the neck). Is this what you call “unscientific race science”? Furthermore, we know that intelligence is real, that it can be measured, that is mostly genetic (just like height) and can’t be taught (just like height). We even know many of the genes involved! We can even dig up old skeletons, sequence their DNA, and look at which genes changed and when and where. It turns out that farming (and higher population density) is a major driver of recent evolution, including for genes that make us smarter. All of this is science.
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@irtakus no. You have misunderstood the Flynn effect and you have fallen for the leftist propaganda lie about education. Education does NOT increase intelligence. If you actually want to know more (which I doubt, but please prove me wrong!) you should look at Ian Deary’s research with the Lothian Birth Cohort Study. The UK used to split pupils around the age of 11. Some would get more years of schooling (and at a higher level) others fewer (and at a lower level). In order to make it fair — and to maximize the benefit to the state of the kids’ talents — this was determined by an IQ test called the “11+ exam”. Most of the test results were thrown out, but some had been preserved by accident. His study looked at the people who took those tests and remeasured their IQs, looked at their health, employment history, social status, income, etc. It turns out that they tested about the same as they did as kids, even though some got university degrees and some had almost no schooling. All the data are in the (many!) reports published by the study and the scientific papers they published. We know for a fact that intelligence can’t be taught.
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@irtakus a completely value neutral reply of mine disappeared completely. It said that you got the Flynn effect wrong (you did) and how we know for a fact that education doesn’t lead to higher intelligence (Ian Deary, Lothian Birth Cohort Study).
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@irtakus a short follow up on the Flynn effect… it is not as extreme as you portrayed it and there is zero reason to believe it will solve any of our immigration problems but the effect is indeed real. The obvious candidate reasons are better nutrition, less pollution/poison, fewer diseases/parasites, and better education/more books. We would expect the poor to be more afflicted by all four and we do in fact see a much stronger Flynn effect historically amongst the poor than among the middle class/rich. Longer schooling didn’t have much of an effect, though. It has also stopped in rich, industrialized countries. And even poor people in the Middle East and most of Africa have better nutrition and a lower disease load than middle class Europeans had a hundred years ago… There is a funny error source, though. Some IQ tests are more affected by education than others. Raven’s progressive matrices (which is nice because it is culture neutral and easy to administer) is very affected but most others show only a tiny effect or no effect at all. That means you have to be careful when you hear about a study that purports to show a strong recent Flynn effect: you need to verify what test(s) it used. We have very good data on the Flynn effect for Moroccan migrants to the Netherlands, thanks to Jan ter Nijenhuijs (which I probably misspelled). The first generation had an average IQ in the low 80’s and the second generation in the high 80’s… and I think it used Raven’s progressive matrices. So, not much hope of them reaching 100 anytime soon :(
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@irtakus look closer. Some people with high scores got lots of education, others did not. It had no effect on their intelligence (and surprisingly little effect on their life outcomes). This is one of many studies to prove that intelligence can’t be taught (or at least that nobody teaches it and nobody even knows how to teach it). It’s just the one with the most direct evidence and cleanest arguments — it can’t be denied even if you use both hands.
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@irtakus no, it really seems to have disappeared.
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@Solstice261 you could try to learn more about the things you “know” or you could continue to be ignorant…
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@irtakus oh, good!
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@Solstice261 be like the people who wouldn’t look through Galileo’s telescope. Be like the people who felt justified in destroying glass factories in China because they used foreign (non-Chinese) technology. Be like the ignorant bigots you think other people are. Eppur si muove!
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@Omicon really? They talk about the Versailles Treaty all the time?
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@Omicon I just did. You were wrong. You know who actually used word-for-word the slogans as the Nazis and Commies in the 30’s? Die Linke…
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@Dave1507 most people believe what they are told on TV. You can verify for yourself that others used it. Go on… it’s not that hard to do.
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@Dave1507 logic is not your strong suite.
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@Dave1507 you might be autistic.
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The legal immigration, which is and was huge, is definitely also a problem.
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