Are you in chains? Who put them on you?

Sarah Hoyt writes that

we’re all more mixed than you think.

Okay, then, what makes us the way we are? Is it more our race or our culture? Sarah believes it is mostly

self-forged chains.

Say you’re in a family where an artistic temperament is viewed as a mark of genius. You’re going to develop very differently than if you’re in a family where order and performing rote tasks are valued. Since most of these “decisions” are made before you can talk, chances are that you’ll end up thinking you’re that way naturally.

So, what I’m saying is that all humans are portions of this and that, and most humans have talents and abilities they’ve never developed.

Now, that said, yes, some populations consistently test lower for this and that, or do better at this and that. Part of it might be culture. (Do you know how hard it is to tell the effects of say nutrition on the brain as it develops? Or how the effect of not using the brain in a certain way from VERY early on show up later on?) And part, yes, is hereditary.

But surely discrimination exists?

BUT unfortunately Marxism, taught not just at our universities but on a grand scale across the world, teaches people that it is impossible to succeed in the face of discrimination.

EVERY minority in the US is taught this. EVERY nation that’s poorer than the US (all of them, pretty much) is told that they are poor BECAUSE the US is rich and “discriminates” against them.

Add in political correctness and teachers who’ll demand less from certain kids because of… well, the “soft racism of lowered expectations.”

What we do know is this – if you go through life adhering to Marxism, believing victimhood is a sort of glorious condition, and excusing all your failures by someone else holding you down, you WILL FAIL.

we have absolutely no clue what part of a human’s performance (if any) is influenced by his/her race and in fact, it’s far more likely to be influenced by his/her Marxism (acknowledged or not.)