The Chosen People, a book review by Byron Roth

[Politruk]

Gentiles always misunderstand the phrase "chosen people". It mean chosen to receive the Torah--a book of special rules that apply only to us.

That's what it means now. In OT times, it meant the same thing as the Nazis meant by "master race."

 

[AnomalyLady]

That's what it means now. In OT times, it meant the same thing as the Nazis meant by "master race."

Give proof?

 

[Politruk]

Give proof?

It's entirely clear if you read the OT -- Book of Joshua in particular. All enemies of the Israelites, which usually means all gentiles but the Persians, are treated as subhuman, and fair game for killing or enslavement.

 

[Lance_Castro]

No one is stopping you from following the Torah and keeping the mitzvot. You're just not expected to.

This is where most every religion gets it wrong.

Every religion’s God, customs and stories are basically the same.

The only “differences” were injected by selfish humans trying to make it sound that their faith is the only way to be in god’s favor.

There are no “chosen” ones, fools
Lol

 

[Winter_Fare]

This thread made me throw up a little in the back of my mouth.

Facts literally cannot speak for themselves, that's why language and the discipline of logic exist. The book is based on an inherently racist premise, honestly, I'm not shocked though. Huge failure in critical thinking. Correlation/=causation.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

This is where most every religion gets it wrong.

Every religion’s God, customs and stories are basically the same.

The only “differences” were injected by selfish humans trying to make it sound that their faith is the only way to be in god’s favor.

There are no “chosen” ones, fools
Lol

Christianity and Islam teach that people with different beliefs are wrong and must be either killed or converted.

Judaism teaches that people with different beliefs should keep doing their own thing and leave the Jews alone.

That's a pretty stark difference, and one that has led to a great deal of human suffering.

 

[AnomalyLady]

This thread made me throw up a little in the back of my mouth.

Facts literally cannot speak for themselves, that's why language and the discipline of logic exist. The book is based on an inherently racist premise, honestly, I'm not shocked though. Huge failure in critical thinking. Correlation/=causation.

Throw up… why? You’re lacking some context.

 

[Lance_Castro]

Christianity and Islam teach that people with different beliefs are wrong and must be either killed or converted.

Judaism teaches that people with different beliefs should keep doing their own thing and leave the Jews alone.

That's a pretty stark difference, and one that has led to a great deal of human suffering.

It’s also a crock of entitled ignorant shit.
Lol

 

[JohnEngelman]

This thread made me throw up a little in the back of my mouth.

Facts literally cannot speak for themselves, that's why language and the discipline of logic exist. The book is based on an inherently racist premise, honestly, I'm not shocked though. Huge failure in critical thinking. Correlation/=causation.

What does the book say that is not true? Anyone who has sat in a class room with Jews knows how intelligent most of them are.

 

[Politruk]

What does the book say that is not true?

Probably everything, since it was written by Richard Lynn and reviewed by American Renaissance.

 

[JohnEngelman]

Probably everything, since it was written by Richard Lynn and reviewed by American Renaissance.

Like Charles Murray and Professor J. Philippe Rushton, Richard Lynn thoroughly documents his factual assertions. American Renaissance is a white nationalist website. Most posters there are hostile to Jews.

 

[Politruk]

Like Charles Murray and Professor J. Philippe Rushton, Richard Lynn thoroughly documents his factual assertions. American Renaissance is a white nationalist website. Most posters there are hostile to Jews.

Richard Lynn:

Examples of shoddy research[edit]​

Shoddy "research" he's published that has been shot down by other researchers includes the following:

• His work on African IQs, which evidently use horrible samples to validate preconceived biases.
• A study claiming to show that men are smarter than women — which was slammed by Nature as "simple, utter hogwash"[9]
• Claiming that psychopathic personality is more common among blacks than whites.[10][11]
• His work claiming that Irish people had lower IQs than English people was criticised by Ciaran Benson of University College Dublin.[12]
• A study claiming to validate stereotypes about Asians having shorter dicks than whites and blacks having longer dicks than whites. Seriously. Unsurprisingly, this "study" was based on two highly-questionable sources, including a submission-based website that cited multiple nonexistent sources and misrepresented other sources that actually exist.[13]

Influential scholars who have criticized his work include Nathan Brody (cognitive psychology researcher), James Flynn (cognitive psychology researcher), Steven Rose (neurobiologist and sociologist), Diane Halpern (cognitive psychology researcher and former president of the American Psychological Association), and John Hartung (anthropologist), among many others.

Conspiracist crankery[edit]​

Lynn was a proponent of the white genocide and Great Replacement conspiracy theories. In an interview with Neo-Nazi Alex Kurtgaric he proclaimed that immigration will "lead to the death of Western civilization". Lynn also expressed support for separatist tendencies in the "predominantly white areas" of the Northeast and Northwestern United States because those areas have less brown people, and "instituting strict border controls" will "preserve Western civilization" in those areas. He ties these paranoid fears to his intelligence "research", stating that as the population of predominantly white countries become increasingly brown they will "decline in intelligence" and therefore will result in decreasing standards of living.[1]

We're going to quote Lynn's own bigoted technobabble about his racist synthesis of his bullshit IQ "research" and paranoid fears of white genocide:

I am very pessimistic about the future of the West. I think there are four problems. First, our populations are declining because we have below replacement fertility in all Western nations. Second, we have dysgenic fertility . .
Third, most Western countries have been experiencing massive immigration of non-Western peoples who will eventually become majorities. . . .
Fourth, in the world as a whole, there is much higher fertility in the low IQ countries. The effect of this is that the world’s IQ is deteriorating genetically and there is every reason to expect that this deterioration will continue for many decades.[2]

What Lynn conveniently neglects to mention is that non-white ethnic minorities have also seen declining birthrates.[14][note 1]

 

[JohnEngelman]

Hereditarianism has been denounced. It has never been disproved. No one has developed a method of permanently and significantly increasing the IQ of someone who scores poorly on an IQ test at the age of seven. For over a century IQ tests have accurately predicted academic and economic success.

The high average intelligence of Jews, especially Ashkenazi Jews, is too obvious to be denied. It can be documented. It cannot be disproved.

 

[Politruk]

Hereditarianism has been denounced. It has never been disproved. No one has developed a method of permanently and significantly increasing the IQ of someone who scores poorly on an IQ test at the age of seven. For over a century IQ tests have accurately predicted academic and economic success.

The high average intelligence of Jews, especially Ashkenazi Jews, is too obvious to be denied. It can be documented. It cannot be disproved.

Even the existence of a general intelligence factor g has been seriously questioned. See theory of multiple intelligences.

 

[JohnEngelman]

Even the existence of a general intelligence factor g has been seriously questioned. See theory of multiple intelligences.

Explain that in your own words.

Understand that there are a lot of people who want desperately to believe that IQ tests and IQ differences are unimportant.

 

[Politruk]

Explain that in your own words.

The theory is that there are several axes of human intelligence -- verbal, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, etc. -- and they are independent; a person who excels in one might be deficient in another.

This would preclude any general hierarchical ranking of individuals or populations by intelligence.

 

[JohnEngelman]

The theory is that there are several axes of human intelligence -- verbal, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, etc. -- and they are independent; a person who excels in one might be deficient in another.

This would preclude any general hierarchical ranking of individuals or populations by intelligence.

Verbal and mathematics aptitude correlate in ways that neither correlates with athletic ability.

 

[Lance_Castro]

Verbal and mathematics aptitude correlate in ways that neither correlates with athletic ability.

Ha ha ha!

 

[Politruk]

Racialism:


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[TD]Race is not an accurate or productive way to describe human biological variation.[/TD]
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[TD]—Heather Edgar & Keith Hunley (2009)[1][/TD]
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Racialism (also known as scientific racism) is a set of far-right pseudoscientific ideas which hold that humanity can at all be meaningfully divided into biological categories ("races") that are both broad (each category should include many humans, such as entire continents' populations) and clearly-defined (the categorization method should rarely misidentify someone's "race"). Racialism implies that these races are substantially physiologically different from each other to a degree which necessitates biological classification similar to or below the species level and that these racial differences strongly determine the abilities and behavior of individuals and peoples. In short, racialism holds that biology neatly divides humans.

This pseudoscience is not strictly the same as racism, which is the belief that one or more of these various groups is "superior" or "inferior" to one or more others for any reason. Racialism specifically uses the trappings of biology and genetics to make claims about race. But while racism and racialism are distinct concepts, their respective adherents overlap a lot.

Very few racialists call themselves "racialist". Their preferred labels include race realism or racial realism (post–2000),[note 1] and human biodiversity or HBD (post–2010).[note 2]

Racialism first developed in the 1700s. It remained virtually unchallenged until the 1930s-1960s, when genetics showed it to be utterly erroneous. The idea that humans could be neatly divided into races had long been fraught. Charles Darwin noted in 1871 that there was no clear consensus on how many races there are, writing of 13 authors each making different estimates ranging from 2 to 63.[2]:174[3]:103 Only in 1962 was the idea first proposed that human variation is continuous.[3]:104[4]

 

[Winter_Fare]

What does the book say that is not true? Anyone who has sat in a class room with Jews knows how intelligent most of them are.

Check out this link to actual Israelis expressing themselves on camera. No a glowing example of intellect imho

 

[Winter_Fare]

Throw up… why? You’re lacking some context.

Because in the year 2025 people exist that believe race theory deserves academic respect.

 

[Lance_Castro]

My IQ is upper 140’s, therefore I am an Engelman Jew!

 

[YDB95]

What does the book say that is not true? Anyone who has sat in a class room with Jews knows how intelligent most of them are.

No matter where that classroom was, any demographic group - including Jews - is not going to be representative of that group as a whole. One way or another, it's self-selecting (even if the students aren't the ones doing the selecting). If it's a high school AP class in an affluent suburb or an elite college with a 15% acceptance rate, most of the students are going to be quite intelligent regardless of their faith. If it's an inner-city school with metal detectors at the doors, chances are any kids who care about their education have found somewhere else to study. And for reasons even you don't need explained, you're extremely unlikely to find many Jewish kids in an inner city school to begin with. Also, confirmation bias is a thing, and you have repeatedly told anyone who will listen how you believe the Jews are the most intelligent people on Earth. So of course you're liable to take notice of all the smart ones you spot.

 

[Lance_Castro]

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[AnomalyLady]

Because in the year 2025 people exist that believe race theory deserves academic respect.

Who on this thread is talking about race theory, other than you?