I never actually heard about Pankaj Mishra, but the after reading this text I immediately ordered his new book.
The attitude towards Gaza (with all the complexity of the subject) is a litmus test of humanity nowadays, just as it used to be the attitude towards the Jews a hundred years ago.
But even if they weren't: going from 22k to 50k is a massive difference. People are willing to put up with a lot of bollocks for it. Dismissing that so easily is a really privileged attitude.
"I could already see my salary doubling in front of my eyes"
I thought by this they meant (half jokingly) that this potential employer would double the eventual offer because at that point they had just proved how amazing their skills are. Not that they would double their existing salary, and so it doesn't necessarily imply they have an existing job.
South Africa has currently so warm relations with Russia that Hungary is the only EU country that would not block its accession in this surreal scenario.
Finished Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator last year - what an excellent read! By Harris I also enjoyed Fatherland, his alternative history detective novel.
What a nonsense - Poland actually had full lockdown and did close schools during the pandemic (the English word is not pandemia but pandemic BTW).
From Wikipedia:
On 10–12 March 2020 lockdown-type control measures were implemented, closing schools and university classes, offices, and cancelling mass events, and were strengthened on 25 March, limiting non-family gatherings to two people and religious gatherings to six and forbidding non-essential travel
With low fructose content (less then carrots per 100g), it's not a stupid choice. Naturally, if you don't binge on it, otherwise 2-3 slices daily won't kill you. I mean wholegrain, sourdough bread, to be precise.
Conclusions: A pooled analysis of available randomized controlled clinical trials demonstrated that Vitamin B2 400 mg/day for three months supplementation had significant effect on days, duration, frequency, and pain score of migraine attacks.
For some months I've been taking 200 mg/day and it reduced the frequency of my migraine attacks in half.
Maybe parent was referring to the studies by Lynn, a self-declared "scientific racist".
I think that despite lower IQ scores on average South Korea has been consistently beating Japan in go in the recent years, and more importantly they get rid of hanja (Korean version of kanji) from their writing system.
Nobody here is defaming Lynn. You can disagree with the appellation (though I find a number of fact-checked publications claiming that he does describe himself that way), but I don't think it's reasonable to call the argument libelous.
Calling someone a racist is one of the most defamatory statements one can make. People get cancelled for less. Instead of name calling, people should focus on the empirical question (is there a positive correlation between East Asian ancestry and IQ?) not on trying to undermine the reputation of someone.
While I don't agree with any of that, at all, we don't even reach the question, because the point of my comment is that he calls himself that. The SPLC has him in primary source quotes.
I don't think you're going to have an easy time of un-cancelling Richard Lynn. As it stands, your argument comes across more as trying to launder his most inflammatory claims back into the conversation. I'm not interested in debating phrenology, only the more specific question of what terms are and are not reasonably to apply to this person. That's a question we can actually answer empirically with sources available to us.
For whatever it's worth, that was literally what David Duke said. I'm not saying you're David Duke, just that the rhetoric you're deploying isn't persuasive.
You accuse someone of saying X, but can't provide evidence they ever said X, then there is no reason to believe you. The burden of proof is on your side.
"Apparently he does not" is a positive claim ... it does not follow even if you were right about not providing evidence--but you're not. And they can and did provide evidence, you simply ignored it. There are plenty reasons for honest people to believe it. Meanwhile, it's an empirical fact that Lynn is a racist, as well as most "race scientists" and their defenders. I won't comment on this further.
> And they can and did provide evidence, you simply ignored it.
That's simply a lie. They didn't. Nowhere on that website was Lynn quoted as describing himself as a "scientific racist".
> Meanwhile, it's an empirical fact that Lynn is a racist
What would be the evidence for this claim? There could in any case be an association between IQ and East Asian ancestry. Whether there is, is an empirical question, and an empirical hypothesis can't be racist, it is just true or false, or supported/unsupported by the evidence. In the source I provided, Lynn references statistical evidence that supports it.
Calling someone a racist is actually nearly never defamatory, since it’s almost always an opinion based either on disclosed facts or an opinion based on nothing.
Do you expect him to tatoo a word "racist" on his forehead (in kanji)?
That you even dare to quote this pseudo scientific crook is just mind boggling.
Relevant quote:
What is called for here is not genocide, the killing off of the populations of incompetent cultures. But we do need to think realistically in terms of "phasing out" of such peoples.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Brassempouy
This Wikipedia article gives an example of a similar ivory figurine from Upper Paleolite, dated 26,000 - 24,000 BC.
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