The zealous emotional reactions to straw men is getting really tiresome. It's so....LOW IQ, ironically. I read somewhere that men, in general, seek truth. Women seek moral superiority. We're now being oppressed by this church lady idiocy everywhere we turn. Perhaps the hardest to stomach are men who fall prey to this hysterical rejection of truth.

It isn't just that they can't take the average intelligence assertion with equanimity. It's that the very mention that there are differing levels of intelligence sends them into spasms of moral outrage. Yet, shouldn't it be obvious to everyone that people shipped to North America from a continent that for the most part was primitive, with people living in a manner that Europeans had left behind centuries before, would say something about what those people value -- and what they don't? Shouldn't we all have observed that perhaps you can't speed-up the process of adapting from a primitive culture to one nurtured by people who sat around indoors half the year, writing philosophy? There are the languages too -- quite indicative of the intellect: fruits are not individually named. They are "tree fruit" or "bush fruit." Note the lack of specificity and word salad that is spoken (NOT ALL!!!!!) I've recognized this pattern -- just as I've recognized, from working with Asian students, that they excel at taking direction, but struggle to come up with an individual opinion, draw inferences, or make connections (despite the assertion that their IQ's are higher than whites.) Again, look at the culture. Whites kept moving. Asians retained the same or very similar culture for centuries until about the 19th century when the world opened up due to whites running around all over the place. Again, this difference should be OBVIOUS. Add to this the neanderthal DNA in Europeans, Denisovan in Asians, and neither in Africans. There is DNA difference that likely caused certain effects.

If we don't listen to people like Amy Wax, we won't be able to lift these people up. Burying the problem does not solve it. And worse -- standards are being lowered to accommodate them. This will bring disastrous effects on our society. It's also "racist."

In the past month, two church ladies fled clutching pearls. One who was misrepresenting the conservative perspective on climate change. Didn't I know it's been settled -- there's a consensus! since he was in third grade (in the 70s). It was nearly impossible to contain my bemused smirk, especially since I was citing a book by a former member of the Obama Administration ("Unsettled," by Stephen Koonin).

The next fainting church lady fled over the "Bloodbath" straw man, and my pointing out that the Times piece on it was irresponsible, that Bari Wiess left the Times due to anti-semitism, and that yes, there IS a problem with flooding "sanctuary cities" with criminals from Venezuela. It didn't seem to matter that my partner is Venezuelan, and that I was citing him when I said people drive armored cars and can't go out without a bodyguard due to the criminals running the show. And speaking of our THREATENED DEMOCRACY, I don't recall on any ballot the following: Defunding police, Men in women's bathrooms, Sanctuary cities, paying off the student loans of people making over 100 grand a year.

Enough is enough. But how to get it to stop?