don't bother

There really is no point in trying to 'educate' low-intelligence people beyond a certain point. I mean, there's only so much learning people with IQs of 85 and 90 can absorb, and to try to push them beyond that will only lead to frustration and resentment. Plus, it won't work anyway. Yes, we should try to bring everybody up to some basic level of literacy and numeracy so they can get through day-to-day life in a society like this, and maybe even hold down some kind of job. But don't expect miracles, and don't bet the farm on it.

I think this is one cause of increasing teacher burnout, this attempt to educate people who are basically ineducable beyond a certain point. The result is that what goes on in some of these schools is more an exercise in crowd control than anything else, just an attempt to keep a lid on the pandemonium created by kids who couldn't care less about education. In an environment like that, teachers can't teach, and those students capable of learning can't learn.

We need to make sure that the kids who have demonstrated-- who have demonstrated-- a high level of intellectual ability are challenged and get what they need. These are the people who can create a decent economy and society.

the importance of science

It amazes me to have to say this, but science is just real, real important, folks. It's incredible to me that the Trump administration thinks it can just finesse the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change-- but's that's exactly what they're trying to do. Science is the best tool we humans have developed for understanding the nature of physical reality. To think one can ignore its conclusions is the height of hubris.

'racial equity'

When I hear this phrase 'racial equity,' what I really hear is, 'More handouts and quotas, please!' This means taking more money from productive people and using it to subsidize unproductive people. It also means handing out jobs and university places on the basis of skin color or ethnicity rather than ability and competence. I'm against it.

in a nutshell

In a nutshell, these are the kind of people we don't want:

. above all, people who exhibit that peculiar combination of low intelligence and violence that is absolutely toxic to civilized life; and

.beyond that, those who cannot or will not avoid becoming welfare recipients and criminals. Such people share a common characteristic: They are parasites, living off the productive people. We don't need them.

And the kind of people we do want? Why, those who are civilized, educated, and responsible, of course.

the trouble with feminists

The trouble with feminists is, they don't reproduce. These are among the brightest, best-educated people in our society, but a lot of them don't have any children at all. It's almost a badge of honor with them. Oh, they might have one, a la Chelsea Clinton, but that's about it, that's enough of that oppressive, patriarchal child-bearing nonsense. Meanwhile, the welfare idiots are churning them out like rabbits. Idiocracy, here we come.

I think educated, intelligent women should feel obligated to have at least two children, three if they and their spouse want one and can afford it. In fact, I would almost say that women like this have a duty to reproduce.

democrats

My problem with the Democratic Party is quite simple. I think the Democratic establishment would be quite content to watch the United States become a third-world country as long as they got to maintain their power and privilege. That's why they feel much more comfortable with their Wall Street megadonors than with the useful idiots who constitute their minority voter base.

After all, this is pretty much the way they operate in big cities, which contain what are basically whole swaths of third-world areas now. Somebody like Rahm Emanuel, for example, (mayor of Chicago) doesn't really have to care too much about the state of the Chicago public schools; he sends his kids to private school. As did Jesse Jackson. As did Bill Clinton-- although he said during his campaign that Chelsea would attend a public school in Washington. In the event, she attended one of the most exclusive private schools in the city-- the same school that Barack Obama sent his two daughters to.

education

I'm really beginning to think we need a radical restructuring of public education in this country. In particular, I'm thinking we should stop trying to waste money 'educating'  very low-intelligence people (people with, say, IQs south of 90). Trying to educate people like this beyond a sixth- or eighth-grade level is just a waste of time, energy, and money. It's just not going to 'take,' anyway, because these kids just can't handle it.

What should they do instead? Maybe they could become agricultural laborers. They shouldn't be living in cities anyway; they just get into trouble there. Working on farms would at least give them something productive to do to fill up their time.