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Not to be confused with 2001 Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan. 54th Clause of the Magna Carta absolutist. Commentary from an NRx perspective.
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Scott Alexander, pathetic liar and cowardpic.twitter.com/hbVzuTJPhk
Candide III Retweeted bunda connoisseur
Institutions do matter quite a lot, W/E Germany and N/S Korea being canonical examples. Also there's a known phenomenon of (partly self-selected tbf) emigrants from countries with shitty institutions but okay average IQs doing well in stronger institutionshttps://twitter.com/maxaasheegtay/status/1389924405527068674 …
Candide III added,
and, similarly to what asdf wrote about Baltimore blacks, even lower IQ people benefit from strong institutions imposed externally, but obviously there's a limit to the benefit and they are often unable to maintain them, or even to want them badly enough:pic.twitter.com/44RLUvG0RJ
This is another example of progressive assumptions implanting not only a false worldview but one that is entirely opposite reality. Just like how the criminal justice system is far more lenient to blacks, American institutions are probably *worse* overall.
The only reason they're not seen that way is because high quality people make the worse institutions function the same way that blacks are still overrepresented in prison because they *so* much more criminal. Since acknowledging those facts are taboo you get opposite views.
Yeah, that's a familiar point: higher quality (in some senses) people can keep on top by making things work shitty for everybody b/c they're the ones best able to cope with that. But I don't get what you mean by > This is another example of progressive assumptions implanting ...
Progs have to explain why there are so many blacks in prison, why American institutions work better than African ones. The reality is that American institutions are quite bad but were staffed by high trust whites and that blacks simply commit more crimes but those are off limits
So they whiplash in the opposite direction - the criminal justice system that (in reality) is exceedingly *lenient* on blacks is actually biased against them which is why there are so many blacks in prison. American institutions are great rather than awful but well-staffed.
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