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"The cure for race realism discovered: Williams syndrome!"

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Anonymous fasfasdfasdfds said...

Williams syndrome can be found in most golden retrievers. They love everyone.

4/12/10, 11:59 PM

Anonymous fsadfasdfdsa said...

Gladwell Syndrome: a common disease where white liberals have no racial honesty.

4/13/10, 12:00 AM

Anonymous robert61 said...

Forrest Gump sort of fits the bill and not coincidentally was presented as a cultural ideal.

The post above on the religions of SCOTUS members hinges on the confusion of religion as a practice with religion as an ethnic marker. Here there is a similar confusion about the meaning of "discrimination". On the one hand, it means being a jerk to people who are different, an unattractive trait. On the other, it means noticing difference, an essential cognitive and social ability. Williams sufferers lack the capacity to discriminate (meaning 2), and thus their non-discriminatory attitude (meaning 1) is not even a virtue.

4/13/10, 1:01 AM

Anonymous l said...

If only we were all retarded and had no judgment...

4/13/10, 2:42 AM

Anonymous TH said...

Very fitting: if you want to be an anti-racist, you must become a blithering idiot.

It seems that people with Williams syndrome lack the normal ability to discriminate betweeen ingroups and outgroups.

4/13/10, 4:14 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's such BS that Gehrig and Williams got a disease named after them but Mantle didn't.

Dan in DC

4/13/10, 4:14 AM

Anonymous Tom Regan said...

I want to congratulate National Review, Time, Newsweek and the New York Times for assisting the afflicted, and employing so many sufferers of Williams syndrome.
I'm sure Messrs Hirschfeld and Meyer-Lindberg would concur.

4/13/10, 4:44 AM

Anonymous rob said...

could there be, say, a prominent media figure who suffers from Williams syndrome?

They're underdosed or overdosed on a bunch of genes, so they're FLKS. It would probably not be possible for some with it to "pass." To my eye they're in the uncanny valley. They're quite freaky looking.

Seeing race is probably not part of some "generalized fear of the other" or whatnot. Children notice that race exists before they form general impressions of different races. A child will also notice that lions are not housecats before he knows that lions might eat him.

Can Williams Syndrome kids be taught to be frightened of strangers?

4/13/10, 5:35 AM

Blogger AMac said...

> Or, could there be, say, a prominent media figure who suffers from Williams syndrome? If so, who would your candidate be?

This calls for a survey of iSteve readers. Meanwhile, the list of nominees (beyond the obvious) is sure to be amusing.

Often, as severe genetic syndromes become better understood, it turns out that there are milder forms present in the population.

It'd be easy to imagine a variation of Williams Syndrome that causes, say, half the pro-social and anti-common-sense effects, along with a reduction of IQ score by, say, 15 to 20 points. And so forth.

4/13/10, 6:14 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Gregariousness, verbal facility, but no common sense -- functionally retarded. Hmm. Why, doesn't that describe 80% of a certain ethnic group that turns up most often on the police department blotter?

Oh, but wait. Even with an IQ of 60, a member of this ethnic group can still figure out that whitey is easier to assault, more likely to have cash in his wallet, and more satisfying to cause physical harm.

4/13/10, 6:20 AM

Anonymous MQ said...

I think the explanation in the article -- that racial distinctions are connected to social anxiety and fear, while sex distinctions are not -- is much more sensible than a pure intelligence-based distinction. After all, key physical sex differences are generally hidden under clothes while physical race distinctions are completely obvious at all times.


It's pretty clear in both everyday and intellectual life that people emphasize tribal identity due to fear, hostility, and distrust of the population outside their tribe. This makes total sense given the way resource division works in human communities.

4/13/10, 6:44 AM

Blogger Paul Mendez said...

The Yahoo article implies that "social fear" is a bad thing.

For all of history, there has been a good reason to fear strangers who show up in your village without invitation. Especially if they are young males wearing clothing different from what your village's young males wear.

From what I know of chimp behavior, the same rule applies. So, I'm guessing Homo Erectus also had good reason to be wary of strangers.

Evolution has probably selected against kids who take candy from strangers for a long, long time.

4/13/10, 7:09 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Williams syndrome is a serious defect. People with it cannot read. I guess the take away point is that racial indifference is correlated with mental defects/deficits.

4/13/10, 7:26 AM

Anonymous Kylie said...

Steve Sailer said: "'Highly Verbal But Lack Common Sense' would pretty much describe most propounders of the conventional wisdom about race."

Yes, you could call it "Williams Syndrome With A Twist". Where people who have the syndrome don't see race, proponents of conventional wisdom about race see nothing but race.

From the article: "'If social fear was culturally reduced, racial stereotypes could also be reduced,' Meyer-Lindenberg said."

Let me guess which race would get the most help in reducing social fear so that its members would be less prone to racial stereotyping. Oh, and never mind that the lessening of social fear with come with an increased risk for rape and physical attack. Even to address that issue would doubtless be to offer oneself up as a prime candidate for aid in fear reduction.

4/13/10, 7:51 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...


"Highly Verbal But Lack Common Sense"


I would erase this posting, because you are going to be called a racist pretty soon.

4/13/10, 7:59 AM

Anonymous Sideways said...

That is, 99 percent of the 40 children studied

Journalism at its finest.

4/13/10, 8:34 AM

Anonymous rich s. said...

"...who would your candidate be?"

This is the control question for a polygraph test, right?

4/13/10, 9:59 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

O/T You are my favorite VDARE columnist. I hope Brimelow finds the funds to continue the good work there.

4/13/10, 10:47 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve, this reads like Onion news.

@fasfasdfasdfds or fsadfasdfdsa

Dude, you have to make up your mind about your nick. People with Williams syndrome will confuse you with fsaddsafasdf or fdsafsadfasd.


JT

4/13/10, 10:59 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Highly Verbal But Lack Common Sense" would pretty much describe most propounders of the conventional wisdom about race.

Classic.

Excellent article Steve, the mainstream media is an informational black hole.

No media figure could have Williams Syndrome, they would be too guileless for such a cynical business.

4/13/10, 11:24 AM

Anonymous rast said...

These deficits generally erase about 35 points from whatever I.Q. the person would have inherited without the deletion. Since the average I.Q. is 100, this leaves most people with Williams with I.Q.’s in the 60s

How disgusting! I'm deeply offended. Intelligence, like Williams syndrome, is merely a social construct. IQ tests don't measure intelligence, anyway.

Steve should be ashamed of himself for even linking to this hate-filled garbage.

4/13/10, 11:33 AM

Anonymous corvinus said...

Too bad we don't control academia. Then we could call race-denying liberals mentally ill -- like they try to do to us -- and have science to back it up.

Oh well... at least we have the science.

4/13/10, 11:47 AM

Anonymous Enoch Powell Was Right said...

"... another explanation for why individuals with Williams syndrome would be unable to notice racial patterns is that they are mentally retarded." Indeed, this would be the simplest explanation. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_syndrome the syndrome results from a partial chromosome deletion of about 26 genes from the long arm of chromosome 7. The victims have reduced intelligence and social anxiety and increased friendliness and musicality. They also tend to be quite short in stature and have faces with an elfin appearance. The Williams syndrome people also tend to have a net overall increase in anxieties and phobias in non-social settings. They have a strong tendency to feel better and less anxious when they are around people — including total strangers. They are free of race prejudice and fear of strangers — but this might only prove that they are permanently naively stupid.

4/13/10, 12:26 PM

Blogger ricpic said...

And the answer is...Mr. "I get a tingle in my leg."

4/13/10, 12:31 PM

Anonymous weregsgses said...

@fasfasdfasdfds or fsadfasdfdsa

Dude, you have to make up your mind about your nick. People with Williams syndrome will confuse you with fsaddsafasdf or fdsafsadfasd.


JT

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aahhhhhhhh shaddap.

4/13/10, 12:44 PM

Anonymous SGOTI said...

If only we were all retarded and had no judgment...

. . . we'd all be liberals? Is this some sort of ad lib game?

4/13/10, 1:28 PM

Blogger Toadal said...

The low I.Q., however, ignores two traits that define Williams more distinctly than do its deficits: an exuberant gregariousness and near-normal language skills.

From the movie: 'The Wizard of Oz'.
Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?
Scarecrow: I don't know... But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking... don't they?

I've often wondered whether people with markedly uneven mental abilities have unbalanced or unusual personalities.

Those diagnosed with Williams syndrome are gregarious, but are neither analytical or practical, being unable to maintain a household budget or plan their finances. However, on the other hand, I think those with weak verbal reasoning skills, but very strong mathematical or spatial relationships skills, on average, tend to be shy and self effacing.

A good example of this personalty type would be Dr Grigori Perelman , a Russian mathematical genius, who solved the one-hundred-year-old Poincaré conjecture, one of the most complicated mathematical problems in the world, and refused the $1 million "Millennium" mathematics prize awarded by the Clay Mathematics Institute.

Dr Perelman lives humbly in St Petersburg in an apartment with his mother and has been described as always wearing the same ratty coat and trousers. He never cuts his nails or beard. When he walks he simply stares at the ground, rather than looking from side to side.

4/13/10, 1:55 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Williams syndrome can be found in most golden retrievers. They love everyone.

The Bichon Frise is the most Williams-like of dog breeds.
http://www.dogchannel.com/dog-breeds/dog-fancy-breed-profile/bichon_frise.aspx
(...)
A Bichon Frise with the right temperament is “cheerful and pleasant to be around,” says Nancy Muklewicz of Schiller Park, Ill., who writes the Bichon Frise breed column in the American Kennel Club Gazette and also does Bichon Frise rescue in the Chicago area.

Generally gregarious with other animals, Bichons Frises usually also do well with children, and many are surprisingly gentle with even the smallest baby. Diminutive humans may not reciprocate in kind, however, and for that reason many breeders will not sell dogs to families with very young children.

Time commitment required
If the Bichon Frise’s cordial manner and playfulness sound too good to be true, there are some challenges amid the white fluff. For example, those who value their Aubusson rugs might think twice.


“Bichons are very difficult to housebreak,” Winkler says, noting that it is the primary reason they are relinquished to rescue groups.

Compounding the Bichon Frise’s mental block about proper potty procedure is a supernaturally strong need to be with humans. “They are very much a companion dog and do not like being left at home alone,” Muklewicz says. While this doesn’t mean that Bichon Frises can never be left unattended, they are not suited to solitude for long periods.
(...)

4/13/10, 2:17 PM

Blogger RGH said...

I nominate Joe Biden.

4/13/10, 2:27 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Robin Williams has Williams Syndrome! No doubt about it.

4/13/10, 2:42 PM

Blogger Average Joe said...

It is interesting to see that scientists have shown that not being racist is a symptom of mental retardation.

4/13/10, 3:42 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This explains a lot.
Now science is on my side when I say "If you can't see any racial differences, you're most likely retarded."

4/19/10, 12:24 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Based on facial features and personality: I nominate Harry Styles. http://youtu.be/QSCFLWbNQbM (curly haired one)

7/9/13, 6:00 AM

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