| By Luke Ford
Dennis Prager cares little about intelligence. The one area of truth
he is not interested in is the average level of intelligence among
different races.
Dennis refuses to read the 1994 controversial book by Charles Murray
and Richard Hernstein, The Bell Curve, which suggests that different
intelligence levels are primarily responsible for many of our problems
and achievements.
Prager says that anyone who believes that blacks have a lower average
intelligence is a racist. He was deeply embarrassed to have once
had a guest who believed that different races had a different
level of average (mean) intelligence.
I believe this is an area where people's private
views differ from their public ones. I find that in private
dialogue, many people believe that blacks, on average, tend to be
less intelligent than whites, and that asians and Ashkenazi Jews
are more intelligent.
Prager is careful in his dealing with inflammatory issues like
race. He seems to bend over backwards to be nice to black callers
and to not unnecessarily antagonize blacks.
Prager takes many calls from angry black listeners who speak with
thick urban accents, poor grammar and worse manners. These callers
frequently feel oppressed by a racist society.
Chris Bolton: "I think the problem is that they stand out
more. Because of their speech, often times they can be identified
as Black. Since Blacks are more often liberal than not, we may pay
closer attention as oppossed to the callers who are the respective
host's "Dittoheads" for lack of a better term. On top
of this, Blacks are most often poorly educated.
"We can argue over whether it's the fault of society for not
giving poorer districts enough money, or whether Blacks would rather
hit the basketball courts than the books. Because of illegitimacy
and fatherless homes the problem is compounded. I think the problem
is due more to this "environment" than genetics.
"I do think that there ARE more stupid Black callers (percentagewise)
as a general rule than Whites. The bright side is is that they are
still listening to conservative / moral programs. There still may
be hope. I think that we are obligated to be extra patient with
them and try to understand why they think they way they do and try
to persuade them through patience, longsuffering, kindness and logic."
Luke: I agree.
CDR replies to Luke's original post: "You owe any grammar
and reasoning skills to an educational system that all but ignores
poor schools, where most blacks happen attend.
"Your reference to the "Bell Curve" is confirmation
that you are of an intractably racist mindset.
"Your arrogance in claiming to have the only working definition
of "intelligence" puts you right into the league or arrogance
and self-worship Dennis Prager is in and reveals you to be a self-righteous,
arrogant, self-centered, ethnocentric, racist, pigheaded, sanctimonious,
ignorant, bigoted bastard. And a fitting representative of the likes
of Dennis Prager."
LAListener@pacbell.net writes about Luke on alt.radio.talk: "Not
only are you an IDIOT, but you are also a RACIST PIG -- you have
no idea who is calling - you can't POSSIBLY know the race or ethnicity
of a caller by the sound of their voice - for a Jew who claims to
study Talmud, you should be ASHAMED of yourself! Your own evil speech
goes directly against the Talmud. It's hate mongerers like you who
set the climate for the Holocaust."
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