Who Were the Sea Peoples?

When Howard Dean's candidacy was sabotaged by the spread of the "Dean is crazy" meme, I began to recognize that although America ostensibly has two political parties, the goal of our elites is to make sure that each party runs a presidential candidate acceptable to them. Sure, the two parties are not identical, and there is plenty of room for disagreement so long as that disagreement is not on issues important to our elite class: 1) globalism and the gradual destruction of nation-states (so that trans-national corporations gain power); 2) continual low-level warfare around the world (so military contractors make more and more money); and 3) continued macroeconomic turbulence (so top investment banks become richer and richer). When a candidate who is not "on board" on these issues seems to be a threat, there are certain standard ways to deal with him or her. They involve spreading the memes that: 1) that candidate is a racist; 2) that candidate is cr...

The Christian Science Monitor highlights a study of racial attitudes that supposedly shows that intelligent people are more racist than one might think. How is this? After first it might seem it is not so: "Wodtke... found that the group that scored higher on the [intelligence] test were less likely to hold racist beliefs than their lower-performing counterparts. For example, among those who did well on the verbal test, 29 percent said blacks were lazy and 13 percent said they were unintelligent. By contrast, among those who performed poorly on the intelligence test, 46 percent described blacks as lazy and 23 described them as unintelligent. "Lower scoring test-takers were also more likely to disapprove of intermarriage, and not want a black family living next door." But there's a catch: "But when it came to government policy – affirmative action, or busing, for example – smarter respondents were no different than their less-intelligent peers... ...

Ron Unz furthers destroys the racists on IQ . What is curious is how they are so anxious that their evidence of racial intelligence differences be maintained that they show up here, out of the blue, to chastise me for these posts. What would make them so anxious about this? I think the reason is pretty clear: they are failed individuals themselves, so they cling to "racial superiority" as a slim link to maintain some self-respect. UPDATE: Mises on the same point : 'From the pluralis logicus (and from the merely ceremonial pluralis majestaticus) we must distinguish the pluralis gloriosus. If a Canadian who never tried skating says, "We are the world's foremost ice hockey players," or if an Italian boor proudly contends, "We are the world's most eminent painters," nobody is fooled.'