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Jews are one of the historically most oppressed minorities. So if they were able to succeed so much, does that mean latinos or blacks are just too dumb to do th

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• chronic62736 7y ago
  > So if they were able to succeed so much, does that mean latinos or blacks are just too dumb to do the same? Yes. Even in Africa or South America, where the majority of the population is of Spanish or African descent (ie, not as much "oppression" by other ethnic groups), they _still_ can't get their shit together. However, people (most on HN, I'd argue) prefer to believe in free will and that they are in charge of their life. It makes them happy, so let them keep thinking that... > Once you accept success as proof of intelligence, there's no end to the 'fun' conclusions you can draw! Even on self-reported happiness scores, white people are happier than black (eg, Nordic countries). Family values? Asian wins here. Physical health? Again, not black. Make sure to look at non-Western data too. Untill someone has a better metric of intelligence, we're going to use success, because success (eg, family, financial, physival, mental) is desirable by most of the Earth's population.
• mlguy456 7y ago
  That's right. Or we can resort to the hypothesis that there is a secret society of Jews who despite being average and not in any way smarter than blacks, appear to be surprisingly organised at infiltrating every slice of our society that we associate with success. And yes, the funny thing is that Jews are an oppressed minority so we can't just paint them with the wide "white privilege" brush.