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[–]Mr9to5 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I don’t claim any special knowledge but I’ve never been particularly impressed by Jewish intelligence. For one thing, Ashkenazi Jews, which tend to be the most cited, are admixtured with Russians and Germans. When Ashkenazi intelligence is played up as some special Jewish trait, I’m always like “have you met the average German or Russian ex-pat?”

Most Jews I’ve known have never been particularly skilled at STEM and frankly aren’t even good debaters. They just kind of lazily float back to their own self-interest and are surprised I don’t just agree. For all the hostility at the right for the same thing, many are into “crank” science or social theories but their theories are far less likely. Many are sophists who can come up with very detailed ideas that’s component parts don’t actually add up logically. It’s almost as though their ancestors studied Talmud, a work with these characteristics, for thousands of years. Hmm.