Bitcoin Forum

Feel free to post additional information, your experience and opinion about this topic.

I found more studies but as far as i know these are some of the newest.

What a bullshit. To understand right-wing and far-right-wing way to think, you have to be of that side, like it is for left-wing and far-left-wing. Results are always crappy when one side tries to examinate the other one.

science based on empirical data is bullshit?  ???

i think you are a good example that these studies are correct :D

There is no co-relation between both but there are lots of intelligent people who are raciest as well.

can you elaborate on the first part and give evidence for the same?

i asked for opinions but please try to back up your opinions with facts and arguments.


also please read the studies before you post. both posters above didnt.

It is society's way to make the population abide by a certain way of conduct.
Even if they were intelligent, they would not be unless to conform the way society would portray them.

intelligence can be measured by an iq test.

do we agree on such basic stuffs? if not please refrain from posting here and create your own thread.

wtf seems i hit a point or why are only trolls coming here?  ::)

I agree with the premise of the thread, but not necessarily the reasoning behind it...

I would argue that the predominant factor is religion... religious people are dumb... religious people also tend to vote republican (simply because republicans cater to their demands/ideals)... herego, republicans are dumb by proxy, but not for the assumed reason in the OP

Though, I suppose you could argue that it's not, "religious people are dumb", but rather "dumb people are religious"...

Is this the new, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"

http://pepsic.bvsalud.org/img/revistas/tp/v20n1/a09fig03.jpg http://www.godandscience.org/images/iqvsreligion.gif

http://www.calamitiesofnature.com/archive/619.jpg

No I DO NOT. Psychology also plays a role in it too.
A crazy like Charlie Manson can take the test as well saying he is intelligent but DO YOU see him as that?
If so, then more intelligent people with a higher score on those tests will beg to Differ.  :-\

I believe Charles Manson would get an A+ on both an IQ test, and Hare's Psychopathy checklist...

Just because he's a psychopath, does not mean he isn't also intelligent... most psychopaths are both intelligent and outgoing... the guy you'd least suspect

I also read about religion and intelligence and would agree with your findings that low iq people usually are very religious.

And very religious people usually tend to discriminate against other religions and certain religious groups.
( i.e. there is only one true religion )

One such group that sets a great example would probaly be the KKK.

Don't forget, religious people also argued in favor of slavery (racism)

(by regulated freedom, he means the freedom to own slaves as your property... not freedom for black people)
(in much the same way that today, "religious freedom/liberty" means freedom to discriminate against homosexuals)

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/12/how-the-bible-was-used-to-justify-slavery/ (http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/12/how-the-bible-was-used-to-justify-slavery-abolitionism/)


They used the exact same passages from the bible as they use to condone their homophobia (with the addition of the part about Noah's son, Ham... god curses his decendants to be "servants", which religious people decided means black slaves... Ham = black = slaves)

Slavery is condoned in the bible in at least a dozen different places... and condemned zero times

The bible is all about tribalism... and hating anyone who doesn't look and believe like you do... it's full of genocide... the Israelites murdered countless civilizations... literal genocide, several times in the old testament

Intelligence has nothing to do with bad and good.
You either have low iq, average iq, high iq or something in between. It doesnt matter for the test and the result if you are c. Mason or m. Ghandi.
Iq measured by an iq test just says something about the intrinsic abilities of your brain to proceed information.

Im pretty sure i know high iq people will agree with me.

As much as I dislike alot of the racist rhetoric that is posted here for discussion, I find psychology tends to suffer from wearing blinders or dismissing anything that does not reinforce the view. I enjoy it but you have to be alert to left leaning articles like this one.
Racism shows up all along the spectrum of intelligence, its the dismissive stance to pretend that its just poor and uneducated folks that are inflicted.

I agree with that and want to add that the studies i linked dont say that.

Low iq correlates highly with racism but that doesnt mean that every racist is low iq.

That is why i asked people to read the studies first ;)

Ok. I should of said normal people that abide by the norm to live a normal life is seen as intelligent to me.
But we all have our own opinion on how this is perceived.
Forcing your views on others is not an intelligent way to act by any means and just gets you ostracized by your peers which to me is a very unintelligent thing to do, anyway you try to spin it. It is a barbaric way to act in my view anyways.

Not sure why you feel offended, so let me try to explain it in another way:

In school math 1 plus 1 equals 2. It doesnt matter which opinion we have about it - it is just a fact.

Same goes for (high) intelligence which enables a human being to have higher cognitive abilities then other people with less iq.
If or how you use your high intelligence is a whole different question.

Higher cognitive abilities also show themself in several different ways and is unique to your personality and physical being.

But i believe the most important feat of (high) intelligence is being able to think for yourself.

So try it and research the topic, because i somehow doubt that you even read the quote.

*edit

Btw. Who is setting the norm? In nazi germany it was the norm to kill jews.

Oh god. You need to take a course in sociology.
You remain to gloss over the point I am trying to obviously show you.
Arrogance tends to do that to people if don't know anything about social behaviours.

Please explain the point you are obviously trying to show me?
Because im not forcing any views on anybody im just presenting facts.

But obviously your reading comprehension seems to be hm.. sub-par.

Oh and btw being low iq is nothing that you need to feel bad about or even offended. It is just like your skin color. Some are white, others are black or yellow ( not sure if the last is true).

No time to argue with such a person with your comprehension skills about how society works, thats prominently shown you are lacking.
As they always say, don't argue with an idiot because they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Racists are the same way. They look for flaws to make themselves look more superior than others, as your skin color comment has outed you as one.
I have a life to live without being so miserable as racists are in theirs.
And no, I did not waste my time reading your "quotes" as you put it. I prefer not to give them any traffic :P. Glad I didn't waste a second of my life reading any of that hate BS. There is enough of that nazi heralded proganda in life as it is.
But keep going keyboard warrior, do whatever makes you feel better about yourself.
I won't be an audience to this poor excuse of a thread any longer.

oh well, good stuff you just outed yourself to be a stupid sig spammer.

didnt read any of the studies, didnt even understood the OP, but just post his bs to get some cents, im really feeling bad for people like you.
good luck with your life.

(in your case you should feel bad to be low iq)

 ::)

please just stop and dont make yourself even more stupid then you already are.

The third article is clearly leftist. I will explain you why racist people are not stupid. They're in fact maybe even more intelligent, because they have a protective spirit, they tend to protect their people, their origins. They're the rulers, with the ability to take responsabilities.

Racists tend to see world as blacks and whites so they are not capable of looking through complexities.
In general I am sure racists have low IQ.

Well, there is this saying that "only dead fish go with the flow". Some people were just influenced by the hype of what they have heard o seen. thus they would think about it that way. Some people may have also experinced this kind of racism so they take revenge.

My point is it's all in our mind. It all depends on how we react on this things. Let us not be affected easily because its not in our nature to see this kinds of environment. Sure we all once did this kinds of things but later we would evolve and would not do it again?.

It all depends on how we react on what we see. Psychological effects that lead us to our perspectives

nothing to see here. it is quite plausible that higher intelligence whites who earn enough money not to have to live around blacks have not developed a negative view of them. when the only people of colour you interact with are your gardeners and nannies you dont get to see what the majority of them are really like and how they really live. this is where abolitionist and civil rights movements originated. wealthy, privileged white liberals read uncle tom's cabin and said to themselves all blacks must be like that, lets give them freedom and equal rights.

the swedes and germans who welcomed in millions of muslim refugees who immediately turned on them to burgle their houses and rape their underage daughters probably all have high iqs as well

i dont suppose that there is  a co- relation between intelligence and racism.. a person who is a total nerd can be a horrible racist. for that reason, racism is related to mindset not intelligence .