By Professor Doom
Intelligence is a
tough thing to measure. We have all sorts of tests, and all of them are subject
to various criticisms, many valid. Despite this, it’s clear the tests are at
least a little reliable, because one ethnic group consistently comes out on top:
Asians (statistically, which means very little when addressing a specific
It’s no secret
that the status of the Social Justice Warrior has dropped a bit in the last six
months. Despite their deep self-righteousness and assertions of well-meaning,
they’re often held in disdain. This disdain is returned, of course, and we’re told ad nauseam how people that
don’t like SJWs are rednecks, hicks, fascists, Nazis, or, of course, deplorable.
The Chinese, of
course, can hardly be called rednecks or Nazis, and they even adopted
communism, the favored ideology of the SJW. And, they’re smart. So what do they
think of the beliefs of the SJW?
They have a word
for the SJW, bai zuo (literally, “white left”). To be sure, they’re talking
about the SJWs with this expression:
baizuo is used generally to describe those who “only care about topics
such as immigration, minorities, LGBT and the environment” and “have no sense
of real problems in the real world”; they are hypocritical humanitarians who
advocate for peace and equality only to “satisfy their own feeling of moral
superiority”; they are “obsessed with political correctness” to the extent that
they “tolerate backwards Islamic values for the sake of multiculturalism”; they
believe in the welfare state that “benefits only the idle and the free riders”;
they are the “ignorant and arrogant westerners” who “pity the rest of the world
and think they are saviours”.
While there’s no
assertion of insanity in the above, it’s a fairly close description to what a
deplorable would call a SJW. What’s interesting here, is this loathing comes
from Chinese who have no actual personal experience with SJWs. Yet, they still
can formulate a strong opinion.
For quite some
time, the US higher education system has had, especially at the graduate level,
a high number of Chinese students. While not
true today, the US higher education system used to be the best in the
world, and we still have that momentum which causes wealthy Chinese to send
their kids here to study. For a while, we worried about “the Chinese problem,”
wherein China sends so many students here that it overwhelms our system.
Luckily (?), our leaders in higher ed have corrupted and debased higher education
to the point that there’s little risk of that anymore.
Chinese higher education system is now getting the good reputation, and they’ve
opened their borders enough to accept foreign students onto their campuses.
This is a big deal—as a visitor to China, I assure you a non-Chinese person really, really, stands out
in a way that someone born and raised in America can’t readily appreciate. In
any event, Chinese universities that quite literally have never had a
non-Chinese student on campus now are getting “foreigners” in numbers. This
provides a unique opportunity to see the ideas of social justice in action.
professor at one of these “newly integrated” universities in China is in a
unique position to observe how this is working out:
particularly well positioned because my university has an especially large
number of students from Pakistan and sub-Saharan Africa. As one of the few
white people in my province, I am able to witness interactions between these
diverse racial groups who have rarely, if ever, come into contact before they
went to college. Some of my students have told me I’m the first white person
they’ve ever seen, and almost all say the African students are their first
It’s not so
rare for have white professors in Chinese universities. Due to the massive glut
of Ph.D.s in America, we have lots of scholars looking for work, and there’s
great demand for English teachers in China, whatever their doctorate may be in
(I myself have even considered it).
He may be an
English teacher, but he’s a scholar, and thus knows to have a nuanced view of
around 200 students every semester, and about 90 percent are girls. This has
something to do with the way the system approves students for certain areas of
study, and a lot more girls than boys end up in my English classes. In a class
of 30, it’s not uncommon to have no male students. As a result, I am far more
familiar with the girls’ perspectives than with the boys’. The average
age of these girls is 19-21, so they are fresh enough not to have fixed views
about race, but old enough to want to explore the question.
So, the professor
breaks views down by gender, and has some fascinating insights (although I’m so
jealous that his classes only contain 30 students…). So what do his female
The girls’ disgust is often combined with fear, and they associate blacks with crime…
Part of why the
SJW is hated in the US is because of their blatant lies, lies in obvious
contradiction with truths most people can see with their own eyes, in addition
to their willingness to use violence to silence any who dare speak truth.
university also takes students from Pakistan, a largely Muslim country. How’s
that working out?
Pakistani boys have mixed results. Some of them are successful, but if they are
too traditional in their Islamic behavior, the Chinese girls reject them.
Obviously, dating is a big deal for
Chinese females. With different priorities, the Chinese males have a different
view of African students:
opinions of Chinese boys about black people are almost exactly the opposite of
the girls. To understand this difference you must understand how important
basketball has become in China within the last few years.
universities don’t have the corruption and foolishness of official sportsball
teams, but they do have courts and such for the students. I do hope they don’t
make the mistake of going the route of having school teams. They probably
won’t, though if they do, I suspect it’ll be little different than the U.S.,
with sportsball players completely isolated from the “normal” students. In this
case, it’ll be even more clear that the sportsball players are not even
remotely related to the actual students on campus.
Dating is still a
factor to the boys, of course, and their views are as insular as anyone
familiar with Chinese culture would expect:
Chinese boys are not attracted to black women and would never think of marrying
one. I was once in a group discussion in which it was jokingly suggested China
should invade Africa to acquire women to fill the sex gap plaguing China
(thirty million Chinese boys have no girl to marry). One of the Chinese men in
the group looked perplexed, and said: “But there are no women in Africa for us
to marry; there are only dark-skinned people there.”
thinking person who does not wish to be highly alarmed should under no
circumstances consider how those 30 million males will eventually get wives…
interesting about these views is the students are not getting this message
through the official Chinese government schooling. One might suspect as much,
as these students do get some of their views from government school (much like
in the U.S.):
their obviously low opinion of blacks, when I ask my students whether blacks
are as intelligent as whites and Asians, they almost universally reply, “Yes.”
This is because of their [Chinese] schooling…
when a child learns something in school from a government official, it’s
generally taken as fact (there’s a reason government wants control of your
children, after all). But, at some point, a child grows and is exposed to the
real world and, well, reality sets in:
I often get
interesting reactions when I explain the actual IQ scores for each race. My
students’ first reaction is laughingly to celebrate the Asian results: “Ha!
We’re smarter than white people!” After we joke about this, I ask them what
they think about blacks being so far below whites and Asians. Almost without
exception, they cite the arguments made by the American Left: “It’s because of
white racism,” “It’s because of European colonialism,” “It’s because they have
bad nutrition,” or “It’s because they don’t have proper education.”
Hey, there are
some issues with racism on intelligence tests, and absolutely “intelligence” is
a vague concept even on a good day…but it’s funny to hear the Chinese students
recite the same things our kids recite. Funny, but no accident.
propaganda is one thing, reality is another:
When African students began arriving at my university in higher numbers last year, the Pakistani and Chinese students were initially excited about getting to know them. I watched the excitement turn to confusion and disgust.
Now anecdotes like
the above are essentially meaningless. Some things, some people need to see
with their own eyes. On the other hand, for the sufficiently intelligent,
reviewing data and considering empirical evidence can help:
One of my
Chinese friends couldn’t believe there was evidence for blacks having lower IQs
and higher crime rates than whites and Asians. I pulled up Jared Taylor’s
American Renaissance video “Race
Differences in Intelligence” on
YouTube and let her watch. I then showed her videos of the Ferguson riots,
flash mobs carried out by “youths,” and videos of the knockout game. Her
perspective changed in a single evening. She was shocked, and told me her whole
perception of America and race relations had changed. She’s been “red-pilled”
Now, I’ve quoted
lots of “unpopular” things from the article above (and left a few things out
that are just too dangerous for me to even quote), things that would easily
cost a person his job if he dared say them in the United States. As always, one
must review the comments section to see how well the ideas fly. None of the
comments dispute what’s being said above, none of them are particularly
critical, and most are in agreement.
On the other hand,
when I look at an article that says the things SJWs say are politically correct
to say, the comments—the few articles that even allow them—consistently have
people laughing at how ridiculous the ideas are.
Why is that?