Hi. My name is Joe White. My brain is small so I use small words. I have to use short sentences. Otherwise I forget my idea before I’m done with the sentence. I feel bad about myself (I think they call it “low self esteem”) because our Dean at Harvard Law School says smart people are superior to everyone else. You can read what law professor Ann Althouse said about that here. I’m so dumb, and thus in the Dean’s eyes so inferior, that she calls me the “Harvard Law Caveman.”
I’m dumb, but there’s one thing I know. Most of the black students around here are even dumber than me. If I were smart maybe I wouldn’t say that. Here you’re not supposed to talk about how dumb the black students are. But I can prove it, with some numbers I’ll write up soon.
Black students here get real mad when they hear people say they’re not as smart as the other students. I guess it’s because they know it’s true and they don’t like being reminded of it. I mean, if you said the jews here are dumb they’d just laugh. Same with asians. They know they’re smart. For more on that check out a blog by Steve Sailer, here. For example, his last two posts. Steve uses lots of numbers, and I’m not always sure what he means, but yesterday (here) I think he said that based on SAT scores over the past 15 years, it looks like whites have gotten a little smarter, asians have gotten a lot smarter, and everyone else including blacks has gotten dumber. Steve’s real smart, and his post today (here) talks about standard deviations, so I wasn’t sure what he was saying. I think the main point is that “Tiger Mom” Amy Chua is smart, but not nearly as smart as her father, who I guess is maybe even more asian than Amy.
Where was I? Oh, about the blacks getting mad. In fact, the blacks at Harvard Law School got so mad awhile back that now the school has a special rule. Under the rule you’re not supposed to talk about black students being dumb, even if it’s true. You can read about it here.
They’re real serious about that Don’t Voice Inconvenient Truths About Blacks Rule. For example, several years ago a few students got mad at other students for pointing out bad things about some blacks. They wrote mean e-mails about it to all the other 80 or so students in their first-year (1L) law school “section” and to their professors. You can read more about it here. And in several comments starting here. A couple years ago a real smart white woman student (she was on the Law Review, and you have to be real smart to get on that if you’re white) wrote some questions about why blacks are so dumb, in a private e-mail to a friend. When the friend sent the e-mail to some black students, they complained to the Dean. The Dean wrote mean things about the law student in a national press release. The Dean ruined the white woman’s career. She had to go work for a judge who spends most of his time looking at naked girls painted to look like cows. You can read more about what the Dean did to that woman here. And here and here. And for smart people, here, here, here, and here. You can read about the naked cowgirls here and here, and about her work with the judge here.
With that rule and how mean the Dean is about people who break the rule, maybe I shouldn’t tell you about the black students here being even dumber than I am. But I’m just a Harvard Law Caveman. So I’m telling you what I think. I hope the Dean doesn’t write mean things about me.
Don’t get me wrong. I like black people. Some of my best friends are black. It’s just that I can’t figure out why, as dumb as I am, almost all the black students here are even dumber than me.
I decided to start this blog because yesterday I saw some extra blacks on the campus. Today are are lots and lots of extra blacks on campus. Many of them are old, so maybe they’re not as black as they used to be, but they still look pretty black. It turns out that these are all black alumni of Harvard Law School who are having a celebration. You can read more about it here.
Don’t get me wrong. Like I say, I like black people. I like lots of extra blacks on campus. But I’m doing this blog because I’m trying to figure out what they’re celebrating. Their website doesn’t say. Maybe people can leave me comments to help me figure that out.
My first thought was: maybe in the old days the black students were smarter than they are now. Most of these black alumni attended in ancient times, in the 1980s or even earlier. Maybe back then these black alumni got admitted to Harvard Law School by being as smart as the rest of their classmates. Or, if they weren’t quite as smart to start with (because they came from poor families or didn’t go to the best secondary schools or colleges), maybe after getting admitted they worked extra hard to catch up, and got as smart as the others — so they ended up getting good jobs by competing on the merits. If so, I can see why they’d celebrate. It’s great to be talented and work hard and end up doing well in competition.
But then I started looking at the numbers. I’m not remotely as smart as Steve Sailer, but based on these numbers it looks like when they graduated these black alumni were no smarter than are the current black students when they graduate. In my next post I’ll tell you what I found out about the academic records of the 98 black alumni that are speaking during their celebration this weekend. It really surprised me.
Anonymous said:
Hi Elie!
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Anonymous said:
‘Sup Elie!
David Lat said:
Cool story, Elie.
Gillian said:
Amend the title to Meet Joe White, Harvard Law Troll
marc romano said:
Isn’t it people like this that end up walking into a lecture hall with real bad intentions?
It’s off campus evaluation time for Joe at a hospital in Siberia.
name said:
so i know, caveman, that you will not understand anything but grunts and pictograms for the next couple thousand years, but i’m typing this to you for some reason anyway. if you honestly think the discrepancy between black and other groups’ achievement at harvard law school is that stark, why aren’t you calling for effective strategies to reduce educational discrepancies way, way, way before law school, instead of calling for the elimination of one very flawed strategy we have in place to level the playing field (albeit ex-post facto when our failed education system has already done its damage)? if you can’t do anything productive, at least suggest something productive for somebody else to do, instead of whining about the fact that those who are considered the most distinguished black alumni from harvard law school did not count among their successes beating out all the white students on exams.
name said:
to be clear, i do not agree with you even about the facts (the discrepancy of which you speak), i just believe that the facts you lay out would only serve to prove the point.
Anonymous said:
Name, imagine we live in a world where his facts are true. Are you suggesting that all discussion of said facts would be less productive than discussing other tangentially-related things?
Speech should be Free for real said:
If he said ‘inferior-students-who-happen-to-be-black’ he might be ok. Heaven forbid that anyone’s feelings should be hurt – lets fire everyone who says something we don’t like. Even as much as I don’t like what you are saying, a true liberal will defend your right to say it. Keep on trucking.
HLS Alum said:
Seriously, get those dumb niggers off campus.
xen said:
In schools i went to we learnt that whites were not our friends and it’s payback time – yayyyyyyyy But how does anyone know if this writer is ‘white’ – u know the cartoon of the 2 dogs – one of which posting a profile of himself online to meet ladies, because he knows no one can see he’s a dog.
O wait, only a white person would/ could/ probably/ most likely/ inclined to/ ever be the person who wrote the article. Cannot wait to hear tell who the next group will be libeled racists or bigots or what have you once whitey is gone from this earth.
deremes said:
It’s not even disputable any longer in the relevant sciences of human genetics, psychometrics, and sociobiology that Negros taken collectively are inferior in innate intelligence to Europeans, not inferior, woefully inferior, and that while getting higher average IQ scores than Europeans East Asians are less innately creative, which is why they are forced to this day to beg, borrow, and steal all the original ideas and technology from the European ethnic group, which includes Jews. When I asked a professor at university in one of the life sciences why, if the vast majority of his profession now agree that Negros as a whole are woefully inferior in innate intelligence to Caucasians as a whole, then why did not his profession publish their research? Why didn’t scholars in his field speak up and push to eliminate “affirmative action,” a social program based on the false assumption that Negros are equal to Caucasians in innate intelligence, and that any discrepancy in their intellectual and economic achievements compared to Caucasians is due to adventitious circumstances, the Left’s favorite adventitious circumstance being the white male, he who is coerced to cough up most of the largesse redistributed to Negros, his reply was, “What would you have us do about it? We have to pay blacks off to keep them from rioting.” I’m not kidding. That’s what came out of his mouth. Oy vey.