Posted On: Wednesday - July 31st 2024 6:09PM MST
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We're a little shy on this one, at more like 13 1/2 minutes, but we like to find good cut-off points.
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Tucker [01:30:15] In Argentina, the whitest country in the world. Yeah.
Steve Sailer [01:30:18] And it's so stupid. But it's also happening at the.
Steve Sailer [01:30:23] The government.
Steve Sailer [01:30:23] Level or the census.
Steve Sailer [01:30:25] And so forth for. So the Biden administration just recently announced.
Steve Sailer [01:30:30] That.
Steve Sailer [01:30:31] They're allowing.
Steve Sailer [01:30:34] Middle.
Steve Sailer [01:30:34] Easterners and North Africans to know lot to have their own racial category.
Steve Sailer [01:30:40] Many so that they don't have the.
Steve Sailer [01:30:44] The unprofitable, ignominious fate of having to check white or Caucasian.
Steve Sailer [01:30:52] And this this.
Steve Sailer [01:30:53] Has a long tradition in the United States. If you go back to, in the 1970s, South Asians were, classified as white, but that, really annoyed the South Asian businessmen.
Steve Sailer [01:31:07] They because.
Steve Sailer [01:31:08] East Asian businessmen were getting all sorts of, low interest loans from the SBA as a minority. They were.
Steve Sailer [01:31:15] Getting.
Steve Sailer [01:31:17] Contracting preferences on government deals. And the South Asians said, well, hey, we just got off the airplane. We should be getting those deals, too. And so the South Asian organizations got themselves declared.
Steve Sailer [01:31:33] To be.
Steve Sailer [01:31:33] Asian and grouped in with the East, with the Orientals and form the new Asian group so they could get these, these, good deals from the government that white people.
Steve Sailer [01:31:42] Are not entitled to. And, so that was.
Steve Sailer [01:31:46] That was an early example of flight from white. You see it with, the Hispanics increasingly, originally when the Hispanic category was created, it was set up so Hispanics could get good deals from the government and get good, affirmative action benefits, but without actually declaring themselves to be racially white, because a lot of them were.
Steve Sailer [01:32:12] Kind of took pride in their Spanish heritage and so.
Tucker [01:32:19] There's an awful lot of that in Latin America.
Steve Sailer [01:32:22] So some increased, so they could set up a separate ethnicity for Hispanics so you could get all the affirmative action benefits without actually, admitting your shame.
Steve Sailer [01:32:35] Of being white.
Steve Sailer [01:32:37] But enough time has gone by that.
Steve Sailer [01:32:39] You know.
Steve Sailer [01:32:40] Only your. You know, your Fuentes types anymore are, like, really publicly, white racist from Latin America.
Steve Sailer [01:32:50] And, and now it's.
Steve Sailer [01:32:53] More prestigious to declare yourself racially. I'm Hispanic, even though nobody's exactly sure what that means.
Steve Sailer [01:33:00] What?
Tucker [01:33:01] What does it mean? I'm confused too, because it would that include Brazil, which is, of course, a different language. It's not right and a different colonial power. And but of course, it's a multiracial country, heavily black country as a, as as Cuba, which is Spanish. But I mean, it's like I don't understand what what does the word mean?
Steve Sailer [01:33:23] Yes. Is is.
Steve Sailer [01:33:25] Brazil? Are Brazilians and Portuguese included in Hispanics, or are they.
Steve Sailer [01:33:29] Lucille, Lucy.
Steve Sailer [01:33:31] Titanic's?
Steve Sailer [01:33:32] And.
Steve Sailer [01:33:34] According to a book I read by David Bernstein, categorized, I believe it's called. Law Professor, he said that.
Steve Sailer [01:33:45] Most of the.
Steve Sailer [01:33:46] Federal government will not give you a break on federal contracting if you, if you put down your Brazilian except the Department of Transportation, they'll they'll give you racial preferences for bidding.
Steve Sailer [01:34:00] On a.
Steve Sailer [01:34:01] Highway overpass or something like that. If you're Brazilian, they'll they'll include them in. But he has Hispanics.
Steve Sailer [01:34:07] So it's I mean, we live we live in a society.
Steve Sailer [01:34:13] That's increasingly mixed in terms of ancestry. So we have more and more people coming out who were a quarter this and a quarter of that, and there's lots of money on the table. And as long as you're not, as long as you don't declare yourself white, you've got all sorts of opportunities to to get freebie.
Tucker [01:34:33] I wonder how long this can go on though, before this blows up the country. I mean, is there any chance of getting back to an it a race blind posture? Officially by the by the federal government? I mean, you can have whatever opinions you want on race. I mean, but the government, which represents everybody has to treat American citizens equally as citizens. Is there any hope for that?
Steve Sailer [01:34:54] I mean, the Supreme Court nominally outlawed affirmative.
Steve Sailer [01:34:58] Action in colleges, like, because Harvard was clearly, clearly discriminating against Asians.
Steve Sailer [01:35:28] I mean, the one issue is that the that Asian.
Steve Sailer [01:35:33] Students are pulling away so fast from everybody else in terms of things like SAT scores.
Steve Sailer [01:35:40] That the Asian black, gaps are opening up so widely. .
Steve Sailer [01:35:50] To total colorblind college admissions.
Steve Sailer [01:35:53] At the high end. You end up with. A campus with very, very few blacks qualifying to get in and a huge number of Asians and places like Harvard really worry about whether they might turn out like Yogi Berra's former favorite restaurant that got so popular that nobody goes there anymore. So if if Harvard becomes 56% Asian, are Asians going to consider Harvard cool?
Steve Sailer [01:36:22] Or do.
Steve Sailer [01:36:23] Asians want to go to places that there's a lot of white people.
Steve Sailer [01:36:27] There? You know.
Steve Sailer [01:36:29] Nobody really knows.
Steve Sailer [01:36:30] And. You know what I don't?
Steve Sailer [01:36:34] What I don't know is whether the the Asian, rise, the rise in Asian SAT scores is completely legitimate. And they just really have been getting so much smarter than everybody else in the 21st century that Asian test scores are pulling away from the field, like Secretariat in the 1973 Belmont or.
Steve Sailer [01:36:58] You know.
Tucker [01:36:59] Or could there be other reasons?
Steve Sailer [01:37:00] Yeah. Could could it be, you know.
Steve Sailer [01:37:02] I mean, we know there's a lot of cheating in Asia itself.
Steve Sailer [01:37:05] On the S.A.T.. We don't.
Tucker [01:37:08] Think people bring their bad habits when they come here, do you?
Steve Sailer [01:37:12] Yeah. I mean.
Steve Sailer [01:37:13] I mean, nobody can possibly communicate across the Pacific Ocean. It's thousands of miles wide. How could anybody text message what was on the test?
Steve Sailer [01:37:23] Or, you know.
Steve Sailer [01:37:24] Just the the enormous amount of tiger mother.
Steve Sailer [01:37:28] Prep that.
Steve Sailer [01:37:29] Asians brought with them.
Steve Sailer [01:37:31] From.
Steve Sailer [01:37:32] Their 2000 year old tradition of taking test, become mandarins and and doing enormous amounts of test prep for years.
Steve Sailer [01:37:43] Or is it, is it or it? There's possible technical reasons that. The the people making the SAT have been criticized for one thing or another for discriminating against blacks and Latinos. So they keep doing things like, let's get rid of analogies and that'll be fairer. But it winds up just benefiting the Asians most of all. Why? Oh, it was more of a the when. They had analogies it was it was harder to memorize apparently. And test prep didn't work as well. It took a certain amount of creativity and.
Steve Sailer [01:38:20] Kind of insight.
Steve Sailer [01:38:22] In the brain.
Steve Sailer [01:38:23] And, but.
Steve Sailer [01:38:26] The University of California demanded getting rid of analogies about 20 years ago. So the College Board said, yeah, sure, you're our biggest customer. We'll do what you want. And then things just sort of got worse after that. And.
Tucker [01:38:40] But but there has been a noticeable rise, relative rise in Asian assets. Yes.
Steve Sailer [01:38:46] Huge.
Steve Sailer [01:38:47] Huge since since the year 2000.
Steve Sailer [01:38:50] And I think basic leaps we should have, you know, blue ribbon commission to look into like what's going on exactly with the SAT.
Steve Sailer [01:39:02] You know, I mean, that's that's one reason, that just Covid came. No. Yeah.
Tucker [01:39:07] I'm sorry to say that, but does it still matter? I mean, is that the trend of schools getting rid of the SAT requirement? Is that real or the.
Steve Sailer [01:39:15] Yeah, definitely.
Steve Sailer [01:39:16] It all happened during Covid and the racial reckoning at once. All the colleges went well. They had to they had to cancel some. SAT tests. Because they had to be six feet apart and they couldn't fill in the classroom, etc....And then they all decided that due to the racial reckoning that they weren't going to take SATs and in fact, they're going to make it go totally test optional. And the University of California went further. They banned the applicants from submitting any kind of test score. And then what happened was that the colleges started noticing like, wow, these kids who are showing up that we let in, they're not very bright. They are not going to become computer science graduates of MIT. So MIT was the first one that went, this was stupid. We're going back to demanding. Standardized tests. And now Harvard's jumped on board. Everybody except the University of California at the elite level is moving in that direction. Because it was, it is it is a measure of aptitude, actually. And it yeah, it's it's a very good measure of aptitude. It tells, you know, GPA, high school GPA is a great measure, but it's hard to compare schools. Some schools are hard in grades. Some are easy. Having having this. Having a test and having high school grades, you can put them together and they work pretty well. But because of the racial gaps that have been around forever and these things, it was decided during the racial reckoning. That lead. As Ibram X Kendi has. The only reason some races might be doing better than other races is because. But of course, what it turns out is the Asians are doing much, much better. And because of the evil of whiteness. Because nobody really knows, because nobody's that interested in studying it, because it sounds like the kind of thing you could get canceled for finding out. And.
Steve Sailer [01:41:34] Just.
Steve Sailer [01:41:35] In general, we have a lot of problems that have been swept under the rug in in recent years because they don't fit within the ideologies, the woke ideologies.
Steve Sailer [01:41:48] And just to.
Steve Sailer [01:41:50] Think about them is kind of dangerous sounding.
Tucker [01:41:52] When the plane start crashing.
Steve Sailer [01:41:53] Yeah.
Tucker [01:41:54] Will people start thinking about them?
Steve Sailer [01:41:57] I hope so. I mean, my my father worked for Lockheed from the late 30s to the 1980s, and when one of his planes crashed.
Steve Sailer [01:42:07] He spent two months.
Steve Sailer [01:42:09] On the site.
Steve Sailer [01:42:10] Because when a plane hits.
Steve Sailer [01:42:11] The ground, it spreads out over a mile or so, picking up all the pieces.
Steve Sailer [01:42:16] Of the plane.
Steve Sailer [01:42:18] So they could reassemble it. And there's a jigsaw puzzle and figure out why it crashed, and also picking up pieces of the pilots and the passengers and so.
Steve Sailer [01:42:26] Forth and over. You know.
Steve Sailer [01:42:30] The last hundred years, people who were picked because they were smart and hardworking.
Steve Sailer [01:42:37] Have done a whole.
Steve Sailer [01:42:38] Lot of good at getting airplanes. So they don't. Very much any.
Steve Sailer [01:42:43] More. Now, Boeing.
Steve Sailer [01:42:46] May be working on reversing a lot of that history.
Steve Sailer [01:42:49] But. Yeah. You know, we we got a lot better at.
Steve Sailer [01:42:55] Things.
Steve Sailer [01:42:56] By having systems to.
Steve Sailer [01:42:58] Find people who were competent and work hard. And now the Zeit Geist in the 21st century has been moving away from that. Will we see a lot of planes crashing?
Steve Sailer [01:43:12] God, I hope not. But, you know.
Steve Sailer [01:43:15] We need to to. We need to make 180 degree U-turn in terms of what we value, whether it's competence or diversity.
Steve Sailer [01:43:24] And.
Steve Sailer [01:43:25] You know, lately diversity's been winning.
Steve Sailer [01:43:27] And that's.
Steve Sailer [01:43:28] Going to get people killed.
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