{"id":189591,"date":"2019-06-08T06:38:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T06:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=189591"},"modified":"2019-06-12T05:55:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T05:55:14","slug":"stuyvesant-high-versus-china-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=189591","title":{"rendered":"Stuyvesant High Versus China Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Fred Reed \u2013 The Unz Review June 6, 2019<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/FredChinaTrain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-189592\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/FredChinaTrain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/FredChinaTrain.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/FredChinaTrain-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/infrastructure\/a27585576\/china-bullet-train\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">China has an upcoming maglev<\/span><\/a> train that will run at 373 miles an hour. By comparison, the United States increasingly looks like a country from an earlier age. Pop Quiz: Was this train engineered (a) by heartwarming, puzzled, oppressed, suffering, agonized minorities who ought to be making pizzas, or (b) by the brightest people China could find regardless sex, color, or \u201cadversity quotient\u201d? (If you choose (a) you are probably a Democrat.)<\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/admissions-nyc-specialized-schools\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Diversity over Quality<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n<h5>Perhaps it is time to recognize the stupid as an ethnic group. They are the country\u2019s largest voting bloc. They are hugely influential, having agendas, lobbies, and demands. They work tirelessly to put the cognitively undetectable into positions of power. Usually they succeed. They are the enemies of reason, the sciences, mathematics, schooling, high culture, thought, and recognizable grammar.<\/h5>\n<h5>For example, New York debates eliminating the entrance test for the city\u2019s elite high schools\u2013e.g., Bronx High School of Science, Stuyvesant, and Brooklyn Tech. Mayor De Blasio, presumably preferring reelection to sanity, backs the idea. He knows the stupid can\u2019t solve a quadratic, but they can pull a voting handle, at least with preparatory training.<\/h5>\n<h5>The problem, see, is that the test selects only the incandescently bright, which of course is why it exists. This offends the stupid. Now it seems that the schools need really dim students, specifically HPOCs\u2013heartwarming people of color\u2013who can\u2019t do the work. The idea is to make the schools Look Like America. Which it would, Which should be avoided at all costs.<\/h5>\n<h5>Somebody should tell New York that elite schools are not playpens for the synaptically challenged\u2013to put it plainly, the stupid. \u201cStupid\u201d is what exists when intellectual reach exceed intellectual grasp.<\/h5>\n<h5>De Blasio wants entrance to depend more on factors such as \u201cattendance, GPA, ethnicity, personal recommendation, and geographical locations,\u201d none of which has much to do with academic capacity.<\/h5>\n<h5>Actually, someone did try to inform the assembled pusillanimous asses. \u201cBut when a 12-year-old, Asian-American middle school girl <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZY5h0WlyAUQ&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=3308\">spoke in favor<\/a><\/span> of retaining the test\u2014asking \u201cIf I work hard, shouldn\u2019t I have a higher advantage than those who are just being lazy\u201d\u2014the senators were alert to potentially racially insensitive language.\u201d<\/h5>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZY5h0WlyAUQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h5>The video is worth watching.<\/h5>\n<h5>\u201cLazy,\u201d you see, was thought to be a code word for blacks. Now, why did they think that? Is \u201cstupid\u201d a codeword? We could fall back on the reliable \u201cdifferently abled.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>Personally, I don\u2019t give a damn about racially insensitive language and neither should you. I don\u2019t care what kind of kids get into Stuyvesant if they get there honestly. You want kids from the Tloxyproctyl tribe of the remote Amazonian rainforest? Fine. If they pass the entrance test. Lemurs? Tarsiers? No problem\u2013on the same grounds.<\/h5>\n<h5>Actually, the little Asian girl was being kind, or at least publicly cautious. She said \u201clazy\u201d instead of \u201cstupid,\u201d which of course she thought. It is what all smart students think when afflicted by affirmative action admits. Stupid is obvious. The stupid do not belong in a high school where a Mensa level IQ\u2013about 130\u2013is probably a lower bound.<\/h5>\n<h5>Some stats: Mean SATs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niche.com\/k12\/stuyvesant-high-school-new-york-ny\/academics\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Stuyvesant<\/span><\/a>: 1470, mean math 760. These <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=firefox-b-d&amp;q=1470+sat+score+is+what+iq\">correlate<\/a><\/span> with an IQ of 143.<sup>: <\/sup><\/h5>\n<h5>De Blasio wants entrance to depend more on factors such as \u201cattendance, GPA, ethnicity, personal recommendation, and geographical locations,\u201d none of which has much to do with academic capacity.<\/h5>\n<h5>The Asian child of course has an excellent point. Since she was chosen to speak to the assembled lickspittles, she presumably is radiantly bright and hopes to make the cut. Why indeed should she, smart, studious, potentially useful to society, be booted in favor of HPOC with his pants dragging around his ankles, just above his IQ? Why <em>deliberately<\/em> exclude the superior student, <em>because<\/em> she is superior?<\/h5>\n<h5>If the new admission standards favored by official cretins are accepted, says a study, the Asian percentage will fall from 61% to 31% and the black and Hispanic rise to 46%, which would destroy the schools\u2013the intention, I suspect. There exists not the slightest chance of finding so many qualified minorities. If they existed, it would not be necessary to lower standards to recruit them.<\/h5>\n<h5>Maybe the racial admits would survive in a less challenging school. Stuyvesant is not a less challenging school. It is a place for very, very smart kids who will go on to CalTech and MIT and do things like neural networks and protein folding that most of us have never heard of. Allowing the stupid to cripple them out of envy and resentment is crazy. It is a crime.<\/h5>\n<h5>And, worse, it is a mistake, China is not ahead only in fast trains, but in all manner of things, including five-G. Remember when America was the world\u2019s technological leader? Did it get there by mooing about white privilege and dumb-ass reparations and give me this and give me that, give me, give me, give me?<\/h5>\n<h5>The elite high schools draw heavily from National Merit finalists, the upper one-half of one percent of the population. (Stuyvesant has<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> <a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/talk.collegeconfidential.com\/national-merit-scholarships\/1212022-high-schools-with-the-most-nm-semifinalists.html\">141<\/a><\/span>) They are wicked smart. They are also heavily Chinese. Do we want to replace them with academic disasters-in-waiting from sheer resentment?<\/h5>\n<h5>Anybody with the brains of a goddam learning-disabled turnip knows what will happen. The HPOCs will fall to the bottom like anvils. One imagines this:<\/h5>\n<h5>Teacher: \u201cChin Ping, given a composite function f(g(x)), the first derivative d\/dx f(g(x)) is f'(g(x))\u22c5g'(x).\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>Then: \u201cDeewan, if Daddy Beaver has three sticks, and Momma Beaver has one stick, and Little Bitty Baby Beaver has two sticks, how many sticks\u2026.?\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>Yes, this is cruel and exaggerated. It is also assured. The Affirmative Action Effect effect has been many times demonstrated. It is demonstrated every day in what were once universities.<\/h5>\n<h5>Following this disaster the war drums will sound. Efforts will begin to drag the school down. Perhaps there will be remedial courses in differential equations. Then we will drop the wave equation from chemistry courses, although the Asian kids, and for that matter all who were admitted legitimately, could learn about probability densities while bouncing on a trampoline and listening to awful music. There will be calls for more-inclusive vector operators. HPOCs in the legislature will say that you don\u2019t really use high-dimensional geometries in daily life. Anyway mathematics is just a tool of white supremacy. (But\u2026but aren\u2019t the Chinese people of color?).<\/h5>\n<h5>Underlying the hissing and spitting about racism and sexism and thisaprivilege and thataprivilege is America\u2019s profound resentment of superior intelligence. Allied to this is a venomous anti-intellectualism. Years ago I heard a kid in Alabama of perhaps twelve years express this succinctly: \u201cYou ain\u2019t no gooder\u2019n me!\u201d Exactly.<\/h5>\n<h5>Here is the foundation of American culture: envy. Historically whites have been more successful than blacks, men than women, Christians than Muslims, and the smart than the less so. The lower halves of these pairs now strive to pull down the upper halves. \u201cIf I can\u2019t understand algebra, then nobody can study algebra.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>There is much to be said for knowing one\u2019s place, one\u2019s limitations. For example, I am smart enough to be a mid-rank journalist specializing in sedition, slander, and distortion. I am not smart enough for a doctoral program in astrophysics at MIT. This was doubtless an oversight by God, but there it is. I accept it, so I don\u2019t try to push my way into MIT by political pressure. Consequently I do not have to sit in a classroom of the mathematically brilliant and feel like a idiot. I can do that in the privacy of my living room.<\/h5>\n<h5>The sin of stupidity does not lie in low ability, for which no one is responsible, but in trying to hamstring the able and outlaw superiority. Which, as a country, we are busily doing.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>News Flash:<\/strong> Harvard biology students say that the phrase \u201cwhite corpuscles\u201d is racist, and demand that it be changed to \u201cindigenous peoples corpuscles.\u201d The head of the Ethnic Studies department said he welcomed the move, and would appoint a committee of students to find out how to spell it.<\/h5>\n<h5>Write Fred at <a href=\"mailto:jet.possum@gmail.com\">jet.possum@gmail.com<\/a>. Put the letters \u201cpdq\u201d anywhere in the subject line or your missible well be heartlessly auto-deleted.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/freed\/stuyvesant-high-versus-china-rail\/\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Affirmative Action Effect effect has been many times demonstrated. It is demonstrated every day in what were once universities. 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