This is an open thread for the week March 18 to March 24. Feel free to discuss all off-topic comments here.
So the World’s biggest brained woman was making the talk show rounds, promoting her new movie A Wrinkle in Time where she plays a good witch. The movie is directed by Ava Duvernay, the first black woman to direct a nine figure movie. Oprah absolutely adores the smaller brained Ava:
Oprah’s appearance on James Corden’s show was odd, but I was impressed by Oprah knowing the exact materials her bathtub was carved out of when Cordon pursued this odd line of questioning. Cordon’s big head was dwarfed by Winfrey’s.
Oprah also appeared on Ellen
Ellen even came to Oprah’s defense when she was attacked on twitter by the president
So high is Oprah’s status that she’s considered a viable presidential candidate despite zero politically experience.
Oprah will almost certainly never run for president, but she enjoyed the attention of so many people thinking she’d win. And while Oprah recently claimed she doesn’t know enough to be president and her critics dismiss her as an overrated vapid celeb, I estimate she’d be the most intelligent President since Bill Clinton.
Indeed when Oprah was a teenager attending a working class high school in Nashville Tennessee, she won so many public speaking contests that she was invited to the white house to meet Nixon. Nixon secretly believed the “Negro” was genetically less intelligent, but not even Nixon could know that this particular young girl had a cranium that dwarfed his own, and with a lot of luck and hard work, would become (at her peak) the World’s richest black and most influential woman.
Oprah in the Nixon era
Pumpkin Person 
The title of Yascha Mounk’s new book, “The People vs. Democracy,” makes clever use of what looks like a glaring oxymoron: After all, what is democracy if not rule by the people? When democracy is under siege, the belligerents are supposed to be dictators, oligarchs and autocrats; the people are supposed to be the guardians (if all goes well), or else the victims (if it doesn’t).
But that’s just the delusions of liberal democracy talking. Mounk, who lectures on political theory at Harvard and builds on the important work of scholars like Jan-Werner Müller and Cas Mudde, shows how populist insurgencies can undermine democracy — in the long run, that is.
TRANSLATION INTO ENGERISH: WHITE MAN SHUT THE HELL UP.
I think I could beat any SJW in a debate. Not because im smarter but because im just closer to reality on even basic points of knowledge like what happened in history. I mentioned the fact the other day that blacks never even invented the wheel and the person I said it to didn’t even know that.
I mean COME ON.
There is so much basic information the jews hide its sickening.
Thats another thing me and Jimmy get. People LIE ALL THE TIME. Why is it so hard to accept that scientists would publish false data and false evidence?! Theyre told what to do by jews for gods sake!!!
The best evidence is your own eyes.
When you walk down the street who are women finding more attractive…when you drive who do you ask for directions?
I bet I turn out to be right about the Khazar theory by the way. And the nonsense ‘half Italian’ jewish wilt chamberlains theory of procreation of the ashkenazim can finally die a VERY deserved death.
I also find quite difficult to accept this theory with a replaceable hypothesis ”or” theory”, or not, for example the Kazhar.
Ashkenazis are ”40% european/italian” and ”60% middle eastern”, but… in many places of middle eastern people already have european-like ”alleles/genes/whatever/piercings” AS WELL in southern Europe the presence of middle eastern ”genes” is noticeable. So how they know exactly this proportion**
You’re following anthropological patterns you autist soy boy!!
The historical explanation also make very little sense.
Based on this hypothesis ashkenazi patrilineal lineage would have MORE middle eastern blood than matrilineal…
As well when PP follows anthropological patterns … to conclude that subsaharians and australians are not completely different race.
Would be interesting analyse the chronological differentiation among jewish groups to find the founderfucker ones.
Im right about the Khazar theory. Sephardis and ashkenazim are two distinct races and ethnic groups from completely different regions of the world.
Look at that photo of the blue eyed ashekenazi girl with the mizrahi jews. Its SO OBVIOUS AND YOU CANT BELIEVE YOUR OWN EYES.
Thats the power of brainwashing my friend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Believe the authority figures. They know everything. They would never lie. Hahahahaha.
So instead you think that blue eyed blonde ashkenazi girl is ‘half italian’. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
This is why jews rule.
People on this blog have been bred. BRED. To be so gullible.
If a man in a lab coat showed up on roberts door to sell trangender friendly dildos, Robert would buy it, because its ‘scientifically approved’.
Right nearly half the world population literally believes in organised religion. Not metaphorically. Literally. Can you really suggest people arent bred to be gullible. Look in the mirror before you call them idiots.
Robert do you really believe IQ isn’t a genetic phenomenon? Or are you just being persnickety because you hate Steve Shu so much? How do you explain Jews? How do you explain Caltech asian engineering students? It so obvious.
I would agree its less heritable than height though.
The brain is a physical organ. Its like the penis. You talk a lot about penises and and not about brains. You can’t conceptually see the brain would be passed down?
????????
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Gimme dem oscars.
Europe is aging and depopulating. Africa is full of young people and life. A mass migration will occur. Its scale and conditions constitute one of the greatest challenges of the XXI th century.
The European Union today has 510 million aging inhabitants; Africa 1.25 billion, of which forty percent are under the age of fifteen. In 2050, 450 million Europeans will face 2.5 billion Africans. By 2100, three out of four people born in the world will be born south of the Sahara.
Africa “emerges”. Coming out of absolute poverty, she starts. At first, development uproots: it gives more people the means to leave. If Africans follow the example of other parts of the developing world, in thirty years Europe will have between 150 and 200 million Afro-Europeans, compared with 9 million today.
Migratory pressure of this magnitude will subject Europe to an unprecedented ordeal, at the risk of consuming the rift between its cosmopolitan elites and its nativist populists. The welfare state without borders is a ruinous illusion. Want to make the Mediterranean the fluke of a “Fortress Europe” by erecting around the continent of opulence and social security ramparts – fences, a wall of money, a ransom paid to the police in the front line for stemming the flow – corrupts European values.
Nationalist selfishness and humanistic angelism are dangerous. Guided by the rationality of facts, this essay on human geography assumes the need to arbitrate between interests and ideals.
Robert might be right about the french being the dumbest intellectuals. Although there are many french intellectuals I do like. I actually think Sartres work is not gobbledeegook. I think he does make profound points.
Philosopher, Bill Gates responds to your concerns here:
Of course Rushton argued blacks were more r selected, so if his population models are based on non-Africans, there might be a lot of error in his predictions. This will be an interesting test of his 170 IQ.
Africas health has improved since the original french medical scientists went in there to study the diseases 100 years ago and has exploded in the last 30 years. What hes saying isnt holding for africa.
Good video but Africans would be K.
“This will be an interesting test of his 170 IQ.”
Not relevant.
Northern and more novel climates select for bigger brains and bigger brains are more expensive thus necessitating slower life histories.
Speaking of r/K, were you aware of this RR?:
… To get a sense of what modern genetic research into average biological differences across populations looks like, consider an example from my own work. Beginning around 2003, I began exploring whether the population mixture that has occurred in the last few hundred years in the Americas could be leveraged to find risk factors for prostate cancer, a disease that occurs 1.7 times more often in self-identified African-Americans than in self-identified European-Americans. This disparity had not been possible to explain based on dietary and environmental differences, suggesting that genetic factors might play a role.
Self-identified African-Americans turn out to derive, on average, about 80 percent of their genetic ancestry from enslaved Africans brought to America between the 16th and 19th centuries. My colleagues and I searched, in 1,597 African-American men with prostate cancer, for locations in the genome where the fraction of genes contributed by West African ancestors was larger than it was elsewhere in the genome. In 2006, we found exactly what we were looking for: a location in the genome with about 2.8 percent more African ancestry than the average.
When we looked in more detail, we found that this region contained at least seven independent risk factors for prostate cancer, all more common in West Africans. Our findings could fully account for the higher rate of prostate cancer in African-Americans than in European-Americans. We could conclude this because African-Americans who happen to have entirely European ancestry in this small section of their genomes had about the same risk for prostate cancer as random Europeans.
Africa will begin to have fewer children once disease is ameliorated and they become more educated.
This is the paper in question:
http://www.pnas.org/content/103/38/14068
I don’t deny genetic factors regarding PCa rates, my crusade is against T being the main cause. I bet diet can lower and close gaps, though.
The quote I cited claims the gap is 100% explained by genetics, but such an extreme claim needs to be replicated before I believe it. I wonder if any of the genetic factors that explained the gap were testosterone related.
ludicrous. nonsensical.
Source**
Rushton don’t compare fertility rates among macro-races BEFORE demographic transition. My impression is that TOTAL fertility rates [without infant mortality] was/still are pretty high among subsaharians [~10 kids or more by couple], ~6 kids among europeans AND [north]east asians. The fact that twins are very common among subsaharian-descendents than east asians is a good path to prove at least partially your ideas.
@pp
did your conception of the schizo – autism spectrum as descriptive of personality come from Jaynes’ bicameral mind? in thinking about the origin of religion he also posited that early homo sapiens might have been schizophrenic and that this is where religion emerged from. he was writing about this topic in 60’s i believe.
No i was influenced more by this research:
https://pumpkinperson.com/2017/02/12/autism-vs-schizophrenia-research-deserves-the-nobel-prize/
Still speculative though
https://scontent.fjdf2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-1/c0.0.320.320/29258445_1986754884977880_6481363618284699648_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&_nc_eui2=v1%3AAeGWLYHcKkjQydneke7u-2G5rEptoJQ1zpHZxvgaiK7QfAqzMO0yPimfKivXkvNw3rtn40LM-_1Nh_n3Rb3rOKZLab4Dvg3fjW6jtiuYBpcoOg&oh=bc851e08b4af4870ff7e991ff380bf48&oe=5B3D0064
NO PP, i will not accept you in my FOICEbuck
Right Frontal Lobe: stop, stop, stop.
Left Frontal Lobe: go, go, go.
Cog-dissonance
disharmony in the mechanism.
The right front lobes say stop and the messages keep saying go so the right lobes in the front push so hard they almost burn out. Then in dreams, I see images. That i never see in my dreams. So dark in my dreams.
Dec 2015
Aug 2016
You push so hard that it tells you to stop that it burns and I see these images 30 times more real that I can show you because I cannot draw. And that is why I feel stuck all the time because of heat damage. The right frontal lobes permanently tell the rest of my brain to stop mostly on the right side and I stutter and am slow and have poor perception (processing speed). Poor working memory. I just feel stuck and no mental clarity because the right frontal lobes are burned in as stop stop stop. I am stuck in my right frontal lobes.
https://mobile.twitter.com/arnoldtohtfan/status/976198897562513408?p=v
https://mobile.twitter.com/arnoldtohtfan/status/976480409046409217?p=v
oprah has a normal sized head for a negress.
most of her brain is in her hair.
No her hair is pulled back super tight and she still has the biggest non-pathological head (and at times the biggest success) in both her race (adjusted for body size) and gender
What do you think about this video PP*
I don’t know, I haven’t watched it, but Stephan’s an Oprah fan (even though he attacked her over her speech). He says he kind of likes her, citing her energy and enthusiasm.