San Francisco school board member facing calls to resign over racist tweets: Many Asians use ‘white supremacist thinking’ to ‘get ahead’

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[–]just_lesbian_things 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

The racism by proxy argument is dumb as shit, but you are a moron too. First generation immigrants are forced through an application/selection process to gain entry into the country. Babies, on the other hand, enter the country via birth. Obviously, people who were selected by a government for good behavior, good intention, and financial/academic/occupational success and skills as per deemed necessary by a country are going to "outperform" the general population who were created via egg meet sperm and have not been selected for anything.

[–]absoluteblasphemy 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

God why the fuck are people so rude on here, are you trying to have a civil discussion or are you just hear to jack off being a rude cunt.

This is a small comment on a fringe social media site, criticising actual anti-asian racism being propagated by the media, in favour of merit based systems and discussion. You get an F for effort, asshole.

[–]bobbobbybob 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

i would say that if jlt started it, you raised it to 11 and shat on the result.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

If two people of above-average intelligence (and the same ethnicity) were to reproduce together, you would expect their offspring to be of similarly above-average intelligence. Some people do talk about "regression to the mean" but I don't entirely understand that argument myself.

[–]just_lesbian_things 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

you would expect their offspring to be of similarly above-average intelligence

Are you referring to the fact that second generation immigrants are not as successful as their first generation counterparts despite being the offspring of first gen immigrants? I think there's a correlation between success and intelligence, but I don't think it's a guarantee; lots of "intelligent" people are not successful and not all successful people are "intelligent". Also, human offsprings are a mix of their parents. Things like crossing over during meiosis create new gene combinations. Basically, there's an element of randomness and smart parents don't always have smart kids (and vice versa). I would further argue that one of the bigger aspects of success (financial/career) is determination and the will to succeed. So while intelligence is somewhat hereditary and success is loosely correlated with intelligence, it's not going to be as direct as if you picked out and interviewed the people yourself from a pool of eager applicants.