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39:19 Cornel West

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First a Trump victory then the return of the castizo social scientist.

On the Asian vote, Trump got 38% nationally to Kamala's 56%. In Nevada Trump got 57% (compared to 55% of whites interestingly). In Texas he won the Asian vote 58% to Kamala's 40%. Texas's biggest Asian community is Viet, which is why it swung heavily to Trump relative to the Asian vote nationally.

Questions:

1) Hispanic crime is higher than white crime, but the average age of a US Hispanic is 19. How much of the disparity is due to cross-cutting variables such as age?

2) Would SE Asian immigration actually depress IQ given selection effects? Filipino Americans outearn East Asians (except Taiwanese), and Vietnamese Americans have about the same income as Korean Americans. SE Asian immigrants tend to be upper crust back home, how would regression to the mean affect this?

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>Hispanic crime is higher than white crime, but the average age of a US Hispanic is 19. How much of the disparity is due…

Some of it, but it remains after controlling

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Unadjusted-rates-of-violent-crime-per-100-000-population-by-age-and-race-ethnicity_fig2_270688352

>Selection in SEA migrants

They’re close to the White median in terms of IQ. Malays are a bit higher.

https://humanvarieties.org/2023/05/27/iq-scores-by-ethnic-group-in-a-nationally-representative-sample-of-10-year-old-american-children/

https://humanvarieties.org/2023/09/06/sat-act-scores-by-detailed-race-ethnicity-2021/

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The right are verbally deficient and dumb, you can say it.

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We do.

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TL;DL. I think the question you ought to discuss, Is modern liberalism sane or not? For instance:

Why don't we know what a woman is? Who or what was Kneeling Nancy pretending to pray to in the Capitol rotunda? Why do we seem to think Covid caused black people to mob strip 7-Elevens? If humans are causing global warming why are we finding summer sandals from 1000 AD in melting snow? Why is there so much ugliness out there, like Olympic opening ceremonies, of all things? What exactly did Biden's infernally-lighted Philadelphia speech mean?

Could the madness possibly cause someone like Kamala Harris to be incapable of a coherent thought or statement? After all, people like her embody the zeitgeist.

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