Here at pumpkinperson.com, we’re huge fans of Spike Lee, whose most famous film is Do the Right Thing.
The film was partly about the tension between Black and Korean Americans. Here’s my favorite scene:
Despite being fresh off the boat with no money in their pockets, no business experience and no English, the Korean immigrants in the film were so adaptable, they could come into a Black neighborhood and out-compete all the life long black businesses until they had a monopoly. Sadly, this made the black characters in the film feel genetically inferior.
Speaking of youtube clips, someone posted a youtube video named after one my blog articles:
Pumpkin Person 
I saw do the right thing about 15 years ago and don’t remember the east asians at all. I thought it was about the problems between the italian americans and the blacks. Yes it is a good movie from what I remember. Samuel L Jackson is a radio DJ in it from what I remember.
Someone black like Spike Lee should do a movie discussing why black society imploded in the US since the 60s. Blacks are completely dysfunctional now compared to even the 1990s of this movie.
the rate of out-of-wedlock births can be misleading. it’s very common in scandinavia iirc. the difference is the parents may be de facto married just not de jure.
plus blacks may be better off in some parts of the US. idk. i have the impression that black roman catholics are better off. maybe they’re less likely to divorce or never marry.
Spike Lee was the person that come up with magic negro as a term when he was describing the use of blacks in movies. I adopted it to describe the way whites seem to be tricked into treating blacks like religious totems by certain ethnic minorities.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/student-debt-forgiveness-in-u-s-to-cost-207-billion-in-next-decade-cbo-says-11581541486?mod=e2li
$207b in student debt to be forgiven by the government in the next 10 years.
I thought Bush’s bankruptcy laws prevented students from expunging student debt. Anyways its hard to characterise much of the 207bn as a writeoff because it was in many cases a scam to begin with.
The US authorities should forgive all the student debt like Bernie Sanders says and then set strict limits on the amount that people can borrow in the first place to go college. College degrees are a social signifier arms race not an ‘investment’ unless you do STEM.
The alien has a big head and grew 6 fingers. (and psychic abilities)
I made the comparison of limb length and imbalanced IQ.
The imbalance I have is 30 to 40 points in difference.
I wish to know how imbalances in IQ work. It must be neurological I believe.
why do they always have to give these big brained creatures paranormal abilities. Isn’t super high IQ enough?
Think of this.
US paranormal division fights Nazi occultists in Hellboy comics.
Lots of psychic geniuses in comics.
I always thought the paranormal abilities were caused by their super high IQs.
Akira was probably the first time I saw that concept.
“I made the comparison of limb length and imbalanced IQ.”
lmao
Lol, I can’t believe you actually posted my video. Also, east asian chicks are hot. I don’t get how some people find them unattractive. My only concern is how my kids will look if I breed with one.
Eurasians are more attractive than either parent race on average. The only concern is they might be short, but not if you find a tall East Asian women. I work with a tall East Asian woman & she’s married to a white guy, much to her family’s horror.
I’ve seen some odd looking Eurasians in my time. It’s usually some European feature, like a bigger nose, that just doesn’t meld in with the rest of the face. Luckily, I kinda look asian, or maybe just very feminine, so I could probably have asian kids without much worry.
My main attraction to east asian women is their mannerisms. I don’t want to go into detail, but if you’ve ever met an east asian woman you know what I mean.
Are you a white nationalist?
Not really, but I have delved into a lot of white nationalist stuff. Sam Hyde, MDE, and “my wife is asian” memes got me into it. I used to follow a lot of white nationalist stuff just because it was funny.
I think in the end, it’s gonna come down to Russia and China. After America collapses, all the Muslims in Europe are gonna get bombed by Russia. China’s gonna start taking land in Africa and elsewhere. No one else has the fertility rate, population, or military size to take on either of them. There’s no reason to be a white nationalist when the last people left will be slavs and asians. Also, slavs aren’t counted as white. When people talk about white nationalism they’re usually talking about Europe; mostly Germany and Britain.
PP, somehow I thought that you are Eurasian. Was this assumption wrong?
Do you know if this is true of F2 (and onwards) hybrids also? If it is much like livestock/crops, we might expect the F1 hybrid to be quite consistent in expression and admirable in performance, whereas the subsequent generations might be more variable and less impressive.
Pumpkin, would a 120 IQ scatterbrain have a harder time completing things than the average 120 IQ person? Does scatterbrainess also mix up thoughts and cause confusion?
Obviously
Hey pumpkin person, I enjoy your blog but have an off topic question. If a person has standardized test scores such as 1992 SAT 1480 and lower 1400s, higher professional degree, but has had some cognitive difficulties along the way with accidents and misconduct, what would you think could be a lower bound on this person’s IQ? How many 17 year olds nation wide had that score in that year? I saw you gestimated the number with 1560 in an earlier post but missed the methodology, suppose you just used the Gaussian distribution and number of takers.
Puppy is obsessed with blacks,.
Not saying pp is among them, but whites who love ghetto culture are totally ignorant about it. Their admiration would completely vanish after 20 minutes in DTLA, Harlem, the south side, etc.
Like I’ve said, I wish cops could actually do their job and beat vagrants into oblivion. The safety of millions matters more than their “civil rights.”
i have nothing but disdain for ghetto culture
Hey pumpkin, have you seen Parasite or The Host ?
Puppy your blog is basically an outgrowth of ghetto culture. You blog more about blacks and Oprah than about horror or IQ.
In Pumpkin’s defense, modern day horror is filled with shitty jumpscares. You can’t craft a deep psychological analysis out of that. He would have more luck looking at Japanese horror.
He should start with Junji Ito’s manga.
A good Pumpkin article that infuses horror and iq:
https://pumpkinperson.com/2019/08/01/when-iq-is-destiny-the-sad-case-of-kenny-countie/
According to Pumpkin’s theory, racist people are dumber.
Wouldn’t that mean that China is dumb because they generalize blacks? Couldn’t they just use grades/IQ tests/genetic tests to filter out undesirable blacks from desirable blacks? I doubt China has a IQ taboo. Which is why they cherrypick their IQ results from cities and immigrants.
Average Chinese behavior (killing nigh extinct animals for food when they can have perfectly good domesticated animals, killing off females, hiding rape rates, wage slavery, public pooping) is not intelligent.
Japan and South Korea are smarter but there’s some anti-intellectual aspects to their culture.
South Korea’s obsession with plastic surgery is dumb because their children won’t come out looking like them. Smarter people are more attractive in general so hiding your looks with plastic surgery is dysgenics and a waste of money because all looks fade.
Japan wants more children but their wage slavery is preventing that from happening. How can people make children when they have no time to themselves?
They might be smarter than some white countries but not all.
I’m tired of HBD’s asian and jew worship. That’s thinking outside the box, right? There’s are other things that are more important like creativity, not cheating, individuality, not being greedy, etc. Intelligence means jack without all those things. I don’t hate asians or jews, I just want the truth.
I hate your adoration of elites. Smart people aren’t thirsty for power and status. Popular =/= good
Woah the British PM hired someone intelligent to be an advisor and it wasn’t long before they realised he was a race realist (not like RR, who calls himself this even though his views are the same as CNN).
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/17/no-10-refuses-to-comment-on-pms-views-of-racial-iq
You could argue being silent about these views is the most intelligent thing to do though.
By the way I think Johnson privately does think blacks are dumber as do many Tory party elites.
This might as well as be one of the most pseudointellectual places I’ve ever encountered. All the good minds left and now there’s just a bunch of race-baiting idiots who don’t have the foresight to see where our world is headed. I mean, I understand that a discussion about IQ is inseparable from one about race but it shouldn’t be this heavily emphasized.
Plus, race is the least sturdy of all social constructs that exit. It’s a biological construct as well but to a reasonable and rational individual, there’s as much of a difference between entire races as there is between an English and a German.
Plus, all Europeans are just mutts. White people love to mix between each other and within other groups as well. There is no pure white race nor is there a pure white individual. Time to abort that frame of thought altogether.
“there’s as much of a difference between entire races as there is between an English and a German.”
Idiot
He’s factually correct Philo.
I’m afraid you’re the idiot. But we all already knew that.
No you’re an idiot. You have no idea how implausible your race-based arguments are. Also, get some new and/or better insults because the ones you use do not accurately represent the other individual.
“e the ones you use do not accurately represent the other individual.”
Idiot
Are you saying the racial difference between Korea and Japan is the same difference between the Congo and Japan?
Well, most of the similarity is in phenotype, specifically for hair and eye color, pigmentation, etc. Not necessarily an indicator of internal traits the person would have, which varies between races tremendously. Also, genetically, yes there is a greater tendency to see people of different races have more genetic make up reflecting similiarity between races than inside of one, though I don’t know to what extent that occurs. It certainly happens enough to be documented, though.
Within Africa, you see greater genetic diversity between each other than two other races that could be chosen to compare with one another. That’s just one case and point but there are countless others.
Don’t back track LOADED.
You were absolutely correct.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Racialism#.22Lewontin.27s_fallacy.22
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1893020/
https://www.unz.com/pfrost/lewontins-fallacy/
Whether Philo wants to face reality is irrelevant, you can’t convince stupid people that they’re wrong so don’t waste your breath.
Melo and Loaded should write a book about how dumb they are, Then they could sell it to each other and make each other bankrupt.
“there’s as much of a difference between entire races as there is between an English and a German”
You could say so based on historic enmities- that they see themselves as 2 different groups, but genetically they are very close. Only ethnicities differ as much as English and German people do, not entire races.
The point I’m trying to make is that, regardless of whether what I said was factual, the basis of it gives credence to the idea that there are spectrums of phenotypes rather than just a clustering effect one would expect when talking about race. There’s really smart whites, really dumb whites, really athletic blacks, really unathletic blacks, etc. All phenotypes exist on a spectrum within a race so there’s a diversity in skill set that is expressed and can verify the fact that looking at specific genes, aside from the ones for eye color, hair color, etc. you get people who are genetically similar to one another across races more than you would within a race.
^^^
Look everyone. This is called sophistry. He wont admit hes wrong.
But he’s not wrong.
There is definitely a clustering effect and the races have more similarity within themselves than with other races. That why IQ data has at least one bell curve. (Normal distribution isn’t actually normal.) But everything else is right.
Comments that support at least a part of LOADED’s argument:
https://pumpkinperson.com/2020/01/27/estimating-the-iq-of-39-countries-new-data-from-2015/#comment-151766
https://pumpkinperson.com/2020/01/07/prehistoric-war/#comment-150966
Righties tend to overgeneralize IQ differences looking only at the middle of the bell curve. Lefties tend to blindly focus on one aspect (the left side of the bell curve), ignoring the full picture. Hate to be a radical centrist but the truth is found by looking at the entire IQ graph and very few people can do that.
I feel like this is going to go back and forth so I want to stop that. It’s boring and autistic.
@LOADED
Obviously there is a range of phenotypes in races like SDs for IQ, height, weight and other traits. No one really says that all people of a race are good at one thing and that all people of another race are bad at the said thing. However the distributions vary between different populations and these distributions should neither be glossed over or exaggerated.
The problem is, there are a lot of people who are ignorant in this world and express the beliefs that ALL blacks are something or ALL whites are another thing. Not consciously but subconsciously and certainly as a heuristic.
Well, you probably have more experience than me regarding interaction with such people. If someone unironically makes those kinds of claims they are wrong.
Certainly they’re wrong but I’m talking not only about the general population but “intellectuals” as well. They all make the same mistake of processing all people of a certain racial background or life experience the same way. Kinda like how you did in asserting that I would know such people…I don’t have to know them personally to know they exist, dumbass. Think a little more abstractly next time!
I haven’t seen a lot of this kind of behavior personally so I based my claim on your ardent opposition to them, it wouldn’t exist if the targets were trivial.
People who talk about racial differences include folks from various crowds, some can be low brow supremacists, but most of the intellectuals tend to follow along from a point of view of attempting to explain the status quo. Kind of like how failure among certain minorities in the western world is blamed on the majority (whites), and so in opposition to this, the said intellectuals bring up racial differences to argue against the notion of the almighty boogeyman.
Plus, all Europeans are just mutts. White people love to mix between each other and within other groups as well. There is no pure white race nor is there a pure white individual. Time to abort that frame of thought altogether.
Yes. It’s also silly to think that going 100% white would make the U.S. more unified. Most of the conflict is/has been between Anglo whites from different classes/cultures.
Are you stupid. The US was in its prime when it was mostly white. Blacks have contributed almost nothing to US society outside of entertainment.
I’m only talking about unity. Of course homogeneity is good.
But I don’t think there’s much evidence that the country as a whole gets along better when it’s monoethnic. Communities definitely do, though.
PP, How much would be the correlation between brain connectome and IQ?
So apparently Mike bloomberg has proposed a financial transactions tax. Thats quite strange considering how uber Wall Street he is.
Fucking ridiculous. I have to do these stupid IQ tests for Bain even though its obvious from my CV Im not like Melo.
Lmao he’s so mad^
Poor Melo. Russia is hacking his Tinder and matching him with people from the ghetto.
I don’t have tinder. I go to bars and go home with married white women.
So you have a domestic nurse taking care of you. Makes sense.
If by “domestic nurse” you mean “professional brown cocksucker” then yes.
What is the term for asian guys that pretend to be black? Chigger?
Whatever it is, melo is down on that.
Funnily enough, I had a Puerto Rican buddy and he used to call me “his chigger” and he was “my spic.”
I don’t “pretend to be black”, (whatever that even means) I was just raised that way because of the neighborhood I grew up in.
Aren’t you part Filipino? Filipinos probably have some negrito mixture so you could be an honorary black man.
Yeah but I’m not sure how much if any negrito admixture I have. My father looks pretty Asian and supposedly his dad was from Spain but he could be lying. A lot of Filipinos wish they were white, it’s kind of gross.
I could probably get away with that with most uneducated blacks. But if tried to say that to Afro he’d laugh at me.
Technically can’t I just identify as black lmao?
That is why I used the term ‘Black’ and not ‘African’. Black just refers to dark skinned people, I know that it takes a different meaning in the modern western context, but there is technically nothing wrong with referring to Negritos as Black. Referring to them as sub-Saharan Africans on the other hand would be inaccurate.
Melo you should read intelligence and Realism: A Materialist Critique of IQ by Roy Nash. Good stuff for discussion.
Sounds interesting buddy I’ll check it out
What do you do anyways Melo? You’ve never mentioned what you do for a living.
Yeah I have. I’ve been a carpenter for about 7 years now. I basically run all the jobs and shit while the old man who hired me does the paper work. I get about 30 dollars an hour. Sometimes more depending on where I’m at.
That’s awesome. I’ve always wanted to have the skills to build things with my hands. and maybe making money doing it.
It’s weird cuz I had always been good at building things. When I was like 5 I could build bionicles without the instructions but I got into carpentry sort of an accident, when I was in high school I was more interested in being a rapper than building houses lol. Ended up being really good at it so it’s been what I’ve stuck with for years now.
I’m gonna act like phil.
This is Pumpkin:
https://historymaniacmegan.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/4ea042dbe644f.jpg?w=300&h=260
Replace the water with Oprah’s cum.
I’ve almost beat my addiction to amphetamines. I went cold turkey 4 days ago and haven’t relapsed.
I had insane cravings the first 2 days. Plus headaches, paranoid delusions, and suicidal ideation, but that’s gone now.
I’m proud to be mentally tougher than 99.9% of the fat losers who try dieting.
Were these prescribed amphetamines or street drugs????
Prescribed. But I completely abused the prescription and ran out of pills.
I figured I hadn’t been on them long enough to get addicted, but after about 12 hours, I knew I’d made a huge mistake.
Found the guy who has never worked with obese people.
I lost 40 pounds in high school.
I’m sure there’re some freak exceptions, but running a 1000-1500 Cal/day deficit probably works on pretty much everyone.
Pumpkin, on a test with really low practice effects, what does it mean if you get really high practice effects?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/22/greta-thunberg-mother-she-stopped-talking-and-eating
Very interesting article on a very interesting person
Thunbergs parents are an actor and an opera singer so it just goes to show how strange the genes for it work if it is indeed a genetic thing like schiz is.
I’ve heard from a few places that the same genes might underlie both schiz and autism, and that differences in environment influence whether you go A or S.
I guess this makes sense. Of course A and S are normally polar opposites, but schizoid personality disorder is a mix of both, which might mean that they share similar genes.
But autistic kids seem to always be born to A-leaning parents, and schiz parents tend to lean S, so it’s hard to say.
My highly speculative theory is that the common link between autism & schizophrenia is executive dysfunction & where you are on the r vs K spectrum determines whether it manifests as S or A respectively
Schiz is well known to be hereditary. It’s one of the first questions psychiatrists will ask who are your parents. It would be interesting to ask Simon baron cohen whether he thinks autism is genetic or not. It could be something like homosexuality where you are born with a predisposition to it and the environment then activates it.
In thinbergs case both her parents are pretty far from being autistic. Maybe she has grandparents who are thou.
There is a study Simon baron cohen did of Philip’s engineers in Holland. Basically it seems to show autism may be genetic.
that was easy money.
What is the minimum IQ required to make a religion?
Not as high as you’d think—even if you started a really influential religion.
Even if you assume Jesus was the most influential person to ever live, the low correlation between influence and IQ puts a cap on his expected IQ at about 145