Oops, I got Edward Banfield (who died at 83) mixed up with Robert Redfield who died at sixty. Both very interesting writers, in different fields, writing at roughly the same time

Galen,

It seems that Neanderthal brains were about 10-20 % larger than 'modern human' brains.

So what does that say about yours ? Don't worry, all Europeans have Neanderthal ancestry.

Joe

You find my racist assertions repugnant, do you, Mr Loudmouth2? A bit selective in your standards, aren't you?

What I find repugnant, is the racism directed at my race by a section of western society which represents the most dysfunctional, welfare dependent, and crime prone of every demographic group which makes up western society. They are a demographic which never stop screaming "racism" and "inequality" but who demand special privileges for their own group. They shout and scream about Black Lives Matter even though it is members of their own group which very disproportionately represents the killers of their own group.

Now they are running around defacing and pulling down the statues of my cultures greatest heroes. THAT is a direct attack upon my culture. The same culture which provides the welfare funds which keep so many of these people economically viable.

If you believe that all races are equal, by what reasoned logic did you come to that conclusion? I suspect it is just an article of faith inculcated into you at an early age like Santy Claus and the Tooth Fairy. But although you grew out of the last two fantasies, your teachers had done such a good a job of putting a mental barrier in your head that it never even occurred to you to question the dogma.

If you think that the authors you submitted could explain away why impoverished sub groups exist without reference to IQ's then why didn't you summarise their work and submit it as an argument? One suspects you never even read their social theories yourself. The fact that class does exist is evidenced by the fact that the reason why the academic/ public service/ artistic class of socialite socialists despise the working class deplorables so much, is because they are desperate to display their social separation from the Great Unwashed.

I never thought I would live to see a civil war in my own society caused by identity politics, but I am not so sure now. Time for you to choose sides.

LEGO, YOU ASK; "Have you (Paul1405) ever met a smart Pacific Islander?" To answer your racists slur. YES, my son-in-law a Cook Islander, educated in NZ, several educated indigenous Fijians, many educated Maori including young nieces and nephews, my Maori wife who is 80% Polynesian, plus some Melanesian, about 5% others. A very smart women, too smart to get on this forum and engage with some of the racists dill brains she perceives as being here.

I have only met a couple of White Africans, one I spoke about, the other a supervisor, who in South Africa had been a supervisor in the rag trade sweatshops. The bloke was out of his depth as a supervisor of people in Australia. He made the mistake, once, of referring to me as "Boy!", as I said he only made that mistake once. His people skills, comprehension skills, etc, left a lot to be desired. A pick your brain type, a few weeks later he resigned, managed out of the department. To be "managed out" you would have to be as intelligent as a monkey. They would rather find you something less challenging.

Galen; "I don’t recall the doctors name, it was around 1977" I'm not calling you a liar. BUT on reading your comment, I did e-mail it to a friend in Sydney and asked the question about your claim, as I couldn't recall any reliable scientific research in that regard, done in Britain before (or after) 1977. It would have been news then had it existed. He is not familiar with your doctors findings, no published paper on the subject, no peer reviews in any respected journal such as 'Lancet'. He disputes your assertion of any "significant sample size", at no time has Britain, including the British Museum or the Natural History Museum in London which held significant samples, nearly 40 sets of aboriginal remains until recently, allowed any detailed research to take place post WWII on those remains. Where was your doctor coming from?

Joe, "I have to say that I find LEGO's racist assertions repugnant" Well said.

To Paul1405

The "stolen generations" lie was a racist slur on white Australians. The BLM implication that the police forces of Australia deliberately kill poor aborigines is a racist slur on white civilisation. Holding up a sign saying "the only good police man is a dead policeman" is "incitement to violence", although "aborigines" can get away with that. But none of these racist slurs triggers you more than if I tell the truth.

I have debated liberal humanitarians for 15 years and pointed out that as a group, Pacific Islanders are notorious for their low intelligence. Asking a liberal if they have ever met a smart pacific Islander usually shuts them right up. They think for a minute and realise that I am right.

You did something different. You claim that you know smart Pacific Islanders. I will take that with a grain of salt although I do appreciate that smart people do exist in every ethnicity, and they usually rise to the top of every society. But it is the bell curve of intelligence I am really talking about here. This bell curve results from IQ testing which consists of a peak in the middle where most people score, and tapering ends where only a few people score. The most significant aspect of the bell curves of different ethnicities is their displacement on the graph when compared together. This proves that different races have different levels of IQ.

Sorry, but that is the science. And "may the truth be told though the heavens may fall." White people on average are not as smart as Asians or Jews. That is the science and so I simply accept it. And that allows me to understand why Jews and Asians are so successful in white, democratic societies. All you need do is accept that the converse is true also.

The initial furore which erupted after the publication of the book "The Bell Curve" was akin to Darwin's "Origin of Species." Governments, theologians, and liberal humanitarians do not like it when scientists destroy their dogmas with a book full of well reasoned facts.

Plantagenet's nightmare.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G87UXIH8Lzo