Donald Trump Jr. #racist #dunning-kruger #pratt

Donald Trump Jr. #racist #dunning-kruger #pratt nytimes.com

Amid fallout from Donald J. Trump’s debunked claim about immigrants from Haiti stealing and eating people’s pets in a small Ohio city, the former president’s oldest son weighed in with his own aspersions on Haitians

Donald Trump Jr. suggested on Thursday that Haitian immigrants were less intelligent than people from other countries, and claimed that there was demographic evidence to back this up. He provided none

“You look at Haiti, you look at the demographic makeup, you look at the average I.Q. — if you import the third world into your country, you’re going to become the third world,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with Charlie Kirk on Real America’s Voice, a conservative broadcasting network. “That’s just basic. It’s not racist. It’s just fact”

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Y’know who loved Haitians, their culture and country? Bettie Page.

So what does that say about the likes of you, o spawn of Don Old Fart…?!

Well I, for one, am simply gobsmacked. Gobsmacked, I say! To think that pillar of racial unity and anthropomorphic personification of intellect itself, Donald Trump, Jr, would say something stupid and racist and then claim to have evidence to back it up and then provide none! Smack, right in my gob!

When you’re using scientific racism to the level of Voucher de Lapouge or Lothrop Stoddard, don’t complain that you’re called a racist and a Nazi.

The Hatians in Springfield are hard workers with a better work ethic than the locals who don't want those jobs. They are helping Springfield. Your father is harming it.

IQ of right wingers also tends to be very low. And many are theocratic forgetting third world countries are theocratic ones.

“You look at the Bible Belt, you look at the demographic makeup, you look at the average I.Q. — if you import christofascists into your country, you’re going to become a theocratic hellhole, That’s just basic. It’s not racist. It’s just fact”

There, fixed it for ya!

Donald Trump Jr. (jumping up and down in frustration): “STOOOOP making me FEEL BAD by saying it’s NOT one of the Laws Of Nature that the darker someone’s natural skin color, the lower their IQ!!!”

White supremacists who lack the awareness to recognize how their poor pseudoscientific bigotry exposes their own ignorance, rather than self-professed superiority.

Edit/Adding: Since it's relevant and important, I thought I'd just add a note about the Flynn effect, showing how IQ test results (that while useful in some circumstances, is not actually an accurate measure of intelligence or potential intelligence in an individual anyway for various reasons) tend to be higher in a population when its general health increases. This is one of the many lines of evidence debunking the claims of pseudoscientific racists (racialism). At the same time, it explains why the white elite pushes to maintain and increase stratification and inequality: as long as they ensure that a subset of the population is destitute, they can keep claiming that more petty crime and low IQ is evidence of "natural inferiority". Other obvious issues with IQ tests: the same person can take several standardized tests in their lifetime and have very varying results; results tend to vary more in men; when they're imposed on someone instead of voluntary, results tend to be poorer; when in temporary crisis or poor health anyone will get a lower result; the competency of the psychologist or clerk presenting the test affects results (the quality of the instructions provided); exercises can be shown to also depend on cultural a-prioris; those designing the exercises and interpreting the data are humans and it's important to follow the scientific method and use reputable peer-reviewed papers, there are some notoriously bad journals, motivated by ideology and with conflict of interest (i.e. Mankind Quarterly)...

No matter how high the IQ of the average Haitian*, it is certainly higher than that of Trump and his spawn combined.

* I am certain that there is no way to manipulate a comparison of IQ between two countries with different languages to force a result favouring one side.