The Red Lining Myth states that the Home Owners Loan Corporation created maps in the 30s which stopped black people from getting loans for decades. In reality, even in the 30's black neighborhoods were over-represented among those the HOLC gave loans to...

Who Received Loans? Home Owners' Loan Corporation Lending
and Discrimination in Philadelphia in the 1930's
https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=cplan_papers

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Thirty years of research on general and specific abilities: Still not much more than g

"Results of a 30-year research program indicate that specific cognitive abilities (s) provide little or no incremental validity beyond general cognitive ability (g)."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016028962100101X

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HBD Jump Starter
https://the-boomer-tribune.medium.com/hbd-jump-starter-7473063d4f6d

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Democrats Lost the Most in Midwestern ‘Factory Towns,’ Report Says
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/us/politics/democrats-votes-midwest.amp.html

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Kinney (2015)

Absolute BOMBSHELL of a paper. Credit to @datadistribution for finding this

This paper goes over two important documents used by the APA to conclude that homosexuality is “natural” and not a mental disorder

Both documents proceed by providing historical reviews of homosexuality and psychoanalysis. One document begins with Sigmund Freud, who said homosexuality is natural. They note that Freud attempted to change one woman's sexual orientation, but after failing to do so, “Freud concluded that attempts to change homosexual sexual orientation were likely to be unsuccessful”

“It goes without saying that a letter written in 1935 is outdated—or antiquated, depending on one's choice of words. Freud's conclusion that changing a homosexually inclined person's sexual orientation is “likely impossible” after one try should qualify as a “suspect anecdote.” Hence, Freud's literature is deficient; it cannot support the proposition that homosexuality is a normal variant of human sexual orientation. (It is noteworthy that Freud also suggested that homosexuality is a “variation of the sexual function produced by a certain arrest of sexual development””

The two documents also go over the work of Alfred Kinsey ; his argument is in human beings, homosexuality has been demonstrated to be more common than previously assumed, therefore, there is a normal variation (or a normal “continuum”) of sexual attractions to different genders.

Kinsey's argument (that is adopted by the APA) is equally as deficient as Freud's. A “continuum” is a “continuous sequence in which adjacent elements are not perceptibly different from each other, although the extremes are quite distinct”. In regards to homosexuality, Kinsey (and the APA authors) concludes that because some people experience sexual attraction to the same gender, then it automatically follows that there is a normal continuum of sexual attractions. It does not take a PhD to identify the deficiency in the argument. The normality of a behavior is not determined simply by observing a behavior in society. This is the case in all of medicine

To understand the argument better, take the example of Xenomelia which is “the desire of a healthy individual to have a fully functional limb amputated”. The removal of healthy limbs is a disordered action, and the desire for the removal of healthy limbs is a disordered desire or a disordered inclination. Individuals who act on the inclination to have a limb removed feel better after the limb is removed. In other words, those who act on their disordered desire (disordered thoughts) and perform the disordered action of removing a healthy limb experience an improved “quality of life,” or they feel pleasure after performing the disordered action. (The reader should notice here a parallel between the disordered-nature of xenomelia and the disordered-nature of homosexuality.)

The two documents then go on to cite a study from 1951 which asserts that homosexuality is natural because it is observed in animals and many human cultures.

Cannibalism has been shown to be widespread in human cultures and non-human animals (Petrinovich 2000, 92). Applying the behavior of cannibalism to the logic used by the APA would result in the following argument ; “Any action or behavior present in a wide range of animal species and human cultures suggests that the behavior or action is not unnatural; The behavior of humans eating humans and other animals eating their own species is present in a wide range of animal species and human cultures; Therefore, there is nothing unnatural about humans eating other human beings”

There is a lot more in this paper so I recommend you read it

Secular genetic-phenotype paradoxes: the Flynn effect and beyond
https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/secular-genetic-phenotype-paradoxes?utm_source=url

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Education Funding and Test Scores
https://the-boomer-tribune.medium.com/education-funding-and-test-scores-490e716a69c9

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A nation's average IQ helps predict wages of immigrants from that country to the US, even adjusting for migrant education levels. Jones/Schneider 2010, Ec Inquiry
http://mason.gmu.edu/~gjonesb/Immigrant%20IQ

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Addressing Undergraduate Content on Race and Healthcare
https://the-boomer-tribune.medium.com/what-undergraduate-classrooms-say-about-race-and-health-risks-55a7ee165b87

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US troop numbers in Europe have fallen since Cold War's end

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Thread

https://mobile.twitter.com/page_eco/status/1497186496574812161

Should you get off Twitbookgram?
https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/should-you-get-off-twitbookgram?s=r

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Response to an anti-hbd thread

https://medium.com/@Idek/response-to-a-massive-anti-hbd-twitter-thread-831851dcddf5

Did NATO ‘betray’ Russia by expanding to the East?

In short, no

https://www.france24.com/en/russia/20220130-did-nato-betray-russia-by-expanding-to-the-east

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Vladimir Putin:

"Russia considers any manifestation of nationalism and xenophobia to be destructive because we are a multiethnic country. We must and we will fight these manifestations, but we must do so using methods that do not simply make it look as if we are doing something, but which really do achieve genuine results."

https://web.archive.org/web/20180514000353/http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/22939

STATISTICAL GENETIC ANALYSES OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TRAITS

Https://eprints.qut.edu.au/227852/14/Brittany%20Mitchell%20Thesis.pdf

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The neural basis of ideological differences in race categorization
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rstb.2020.0139

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