speaking of diseases, how is Tay–Sachs caught? Is it memetic, or environmental, or ...
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Replying to @MorlockP @BostonDelendEst
Not only is "genetic Jewishness" real, distinctions can even be seen in non-traditional Jewish groups like the Lemba and Ethiopians.
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Thomas Sowell does a terrific job explaining this in “Are Jews Generic?” from Black Rednecks & White Liberals.
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I don't recall a single word about genetics in that essay. It was more about their historical role as middlemen and peddlers and it's similarities to other groups like the Parsi.
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I may be misremembering. The argument I’m remembering is that, because they were ostracized, they intermarried extensively. They also had to be ready to move because pogroms, so wealth concentrated on portable things like education or precious metals. /
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Replying to @jamiekwil @ColJSMosby and
2/ The most successful Jews or middlemen tended to be smarter because of these foci, and these people were more likely to marry and have kids. This forced selection for higher intellect, but also for accidental bred traits like Tay-Sachs. TS is Ashkenazi, but/
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Replying to @jamiekwil @ColJSMosby and
3/ other middleman groups have identical patterns - higher tested intellect alongside debilitating genetic diseases that are often neurological.
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He does talk about them marrying within their group (and subgroups, like Shephardics and Ashkenazis) he doesn't go the next step of saying that concentration genetically resulted in them being more intelligent than their host population though.
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He's in fact said, in a criticism of the Bell Curve, that Jews are the best evidence against intergroup IQ explanations as their testing went from below average around WW1 to well above by WW2.
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