Verified Hate: The IQ Debate Rages
Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, January 15, 2021
There is a fierce debate about IQ on Twitter. This is the tweet that started it:
The people with the strongest hate for Confederacy can’t trace any ties back to 1860s America https://t.co/ldP3SgMsvW
— Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187 (@ScottMGreer) January 14, 2021
It’s real:
The IQ in the bio is a dig at liberals’ emphasis on credentialism. It went over their heads.
I really don’t give a fuck that Scott Greer says his 187 IQ, what I do care about is that he spews racist propaganda! IQ is a measurement of logical thinking, not wisdom. You can have a high IQ and still be ignorant as fuck.
— Amy Lynn ✡️🍭🌊 (@AmyAThatcher) January 14, 2021
How are you going to have 187 IQ and still be stupid AF?
— 𝐄𝐱𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 (@exavierpope) January 14, 2021
I see 187 IQ is trending so I’ma just say IQ tests don’t actually mean anything. They can’t accurately measure intelligence and have been historically used for discrimination especially against black folks and the disabled. IQ tests were made for children, not grown ass adults.
— Vallata (@TheMagnifera) January 14, 2021
Christ Jesus! The only flag of the Confederacy that actually mattered when it was all said and done. It was a failed revolt against the United States by traitors to their country. You don’t need a fake 187 IQ to realize that either. pic.twitter.com/qnNsR5m7ao
— SthrnResister 🇺🇸🏳️🌈🇺🇸 #RemoveThemAll (@SthrnResister) January 14, 2021
I hope nobody mentions what Yankee General Sherman did to American Indians.
A good sign that you don’t have a 187 IQ is saying on Twitter that you have a 187 IQ.
— Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) January 14, 2021
Wait wait wait. I just looked at why 187 IQ is trending. I need this comedy rn. There’s really a maga on here who thinks his IQ is 27 points higher than Stephen Hawking’s and he put it in his Twitter name along with his height. You guys. I love this app.
— Miss Laurie🥂Lehner🍾 (@AndTheBandAides) January 14, 2021
“Wait, wait, wait.” Is the issue that IQ doesn’t matter or that someone is falsely claiming to have a high IQ?
There are race differences in IQ. These differences have consequences. Denying IQ leads to predictable disasters. Of course, all this was in reaction to a troll tweet. Still, if it forces people to talk about IQ, it’s productive and funny.
Elsewhere, a bluecheck cartoonist:
There should be no strikes, no warnings. If you steal from the store you work for, you are immediately terminated and the same needs to go for racist actions. That’s how you change behavior. If we tip toe around racism like it’s a grey area, it’s not going to be eradicated.
— Winter Spiced Steenz #BLM (@oheysteenz) January 14, 2021
White people need to stop seeing racism as an embarrassing faux pas and as a PROBLEM. A CRIME against someone’s humanity. And until they see it as that, nothing is gonna change.
— Winter Spiced Steenz #BLM (@oheysteenz) January 14, 2021
If racism is a “crime” and an accusation makes you guilty, a lot of people will have nothing to lose. What may end up “eradicated” is not “racism” but white guilt.
On “transracialism”:
Every now and then you’ll get a wave of trolls making fake accounts using other people’s pictures, labelling them “transracial”, then tweeting them around to try and stir up drama, and imply a slippery slope narrative that allowing trans people will lead to that etc.
— Laura Kate Dale (@LaurakBuzz) January 14, 2021
It’s not against transsexuals. If claiming to be non-white brings benefits, people will claim to be non-white. No one wants “white privilege;” it brings only insults.
What is she trying to tell us? pic.twitter.com/ys4BIAY5fx
— Alice Hype House 🪓🌹 (@AliceFromQueens) January 14, 2021
Isn’t this a white supremacist signal? I always knew the Alt-Right was a Hispanic movement.
I’m not even saying this statement is necessarily racist but it is EXTREMELY tone deaf which is also bad!!
— claire de lune (@ClaireMPLS) January 14, 2021
I also want white people to stop watching the NBA.
I endorse this:
lolll pic.twitter.com/6za9sk7NAR
— c h a r m a j e $ t i .com 🧸 (@infamouschar) January 11, 2021
I suspect it will quickly go from “owning” the racists to “problematic” very quickly.
Australian acting PM’s ‘all lives matter’ comment labelled ‘beyond disgusting’ https://t.co/ckzAyupQOX
— Guardian Australia (@GuardianAus) January 12, 2021
No comment.
I’m not even sure what this means, but it does suggest diversity isn’t an advantage.
White people want you to tell your business at work and if you don’t you’re labeled “not a team player”
— Pdizzle (@dms_out) January 14, 2021
Well, fellow white people, best to keep our opinions to ourselves. In fact, we should probably just stick to our own altogether. It’s best for our non-white fellow citizens.