Republican in Ohio Senate Primary Spoke Offensively About Asians "They're very good at copying"
Republican in Ohio Senate Primary Spoke Offensively About Asians
Mike Gibbons, a leading contender to succeed Senator Rob Portman, made the comments in a 2013 podcast on doing business in China
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Ive often thought that when Ive run into Asians theyre all you know, if youve ever read The Bell Curve, its a book, a very controversial book, I cant even remember who wrote, I think his name is Murray wrote this book, Gibbons said in the Nov. 3, 2013, podcast, according to a transcript of his comments reviewed by The New York Times. He was referring to Charles Murray, a co-author of the 1994 book..
Gibbons continued: And it said that the smartest people in the world as far as measurable I.Q. were Ashkenazi Jews. And then right below them was basically everybody in China, India and, you know, throughout the Asian countries.
About a minute later, Gibbons, who earned a masters degree from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, described being in a class with mostly Asians during graduate school.
It was astounding to me how much they studied, how they were incredibly bright, but they memorized formulas, Gibbons said. And when we ran into a word problem and you know, I think this is a function of the educational track they put them on they got lost in the weeds.
As the discussion continued, his co-host asserted that the Chinese education system did a poor job of teaching critical thinking.
Theyre very good at copying, Gibbons added.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/15/us/politics/mike-gibbons-ohio.html