Pic Of The Moment: This Idiot Co-Authored The Recent Immigration Study By The Heritage Foundation

[EarlG]

Heritage immigration study co-author: Hispanics will have low-IQ children and grandchildren

My Latina Head Is Literally Exploding

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[geardaddy]

1. Jack-hole.

[nikto]

79. A Latino voting for ANY Republican...

...Is like a Jewish person voting for Nazis.

[Flashmann]

2. Idiot

Seems a bit generous.

[lark]

22. Racist idiot

is more descriptive and accurate, while still being generous.

[ellennelle]

3. harvard????

um, glad the heritage foundation is distancing itself from this dude, but good gawda'mighty,
how exactly did this dissertation pass muster at HARVARD????????

seriously; would not have been surprised had it been patrick henry university, or pat roberts' mill, but .... HARVARD????

wait; oh yeah; heinstein of bell curve fame was there.

still, you'd think they'd, um, learn.

(pun intended)

[Glaisne]

4. I guess they

hand out PhD degrees to anyone these days. So much for Harvard.

[donquijoterocket]

26. Piled higher and Deeper degrees

Are as much a testament to endurance and the willingness to put up with the requirements of the program as they are any kind of indication of intellectual achievement,plus luck of the draw in your adviser and dissertation committee members. I think there's a quota system.Just looking at the guy screams fatuous asshole.

[Amonester]

36. My guess is, especially to those who can "bring in" cash...

I mean, "LOADS" of cash from interested sources, of course...

[alp227]

45. See my reply 44 n/t

[d_r]

68. who the heck sat on that committee??

Seriously, you have to read the damn dissertations they are defending.

[bobclark86]

6. "For the want of a context..."

If his statement was used as an argument to jack up education funding for undocumented workers and Hispanic communities, then no, it doesn't sound racist. If he was arguing for the superiority of whites — which seems to be the common interpretation here — then he needs to go fuck himself.

But more importantly, I need that little thing called context to make an informed decision.

[thucythucy]

7. The Heritage Foundation is to serious policy discussion

what eugenics was to serious science: prejudice and bigotry draped in a veneer of scholarship, used to justify policies that benefit no one but the exceedingly wealthy.

That the HF is taken seriously, and its "researchers" get to appear on TV and get quoted in the MSM is yet another reason why this country continues to skew to the right, despite the clear wishes and needs of the majority of the American people.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. what would you expect from a DeMint run

organization?

Jimbo was one of the stupidest senators we ever had. His reward and appointment to run Heritage created two "goods." The IQ of the senate rose perceptively, and the future of Heritage became very very dim.

[thucythucy]

54. And you can also flip that around:

what does it say about the Heritage Foundation, and its pretensions to serious policy analysis, that it would hire a dim bulb like DeMint to be its director?

I'm hoping you're right though, that DeMint will run Heritage into the ground.

And afterwards, maybe he can get a job managing the Cato Institute.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

92. wow. talk about a two-fer

that would be sweet. Although, I'd put American Enterprise up ahead.

[underpants]

67. I heard this today & my first thought was "Racist Science"-"The Bell Curve" & Pioneer Fund

And I heard this on my short visit into Rush's show. He, of course, was playing victim....





Much of the work referenced by the Bell Curve was funded by the Pioneer Fund, which aims to advance the scientific study of heredity and human differences, and has been accused of promoting scientific racism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve#Criticisms

The 1937 incorporation documents of the Pioneer Fund list two purposes. The first, modeled on the Nazi Lebensborn breeding program,[13] was aimed at encouraging the propagation of those "descended predominantly from white persons who settled in the original thirteen states prior to the adoption of the Constitution of the United States and/or from related stocks, or to classes of children, the majority of whom are deemed to be so descended". Its second purpose was to support academic research and the "dissemination of information, into the 'problem of heredity and eugenics'" and "the problems of race betterment".[12] The Pioneer Fund argues the "race betterment" has always referred to the "human race" referred to earlier in the sentence, and critics argue it referred to racial groups. The document was amended in 1985 and the phrase changed to "human race betterment."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Fund

[cynzke]

9. If I.....

were his momma and saw this, I'd wash his mouth out with soap and give him a whooping he'd never forget!

[The Magistrate]

10. These 'Master Race' Types, Sir, Always Look So Pasty And Un-Healthy....

Strange....

[Hubert Flottz]

15. Master Racism came to my mind too.

This guy would make a great SS "Dokkktor."

[KansDem]

17. "Master Race"

A little off-topic but whenever I hear "master race" I can't help but think of Spike Jones and his City Slickers:

[awoke_in_2003]

31. Good to see you back, sir. nt

[Jim__]

11. In the acknowledgements to his dissertation he thanks the American Enterprise Institute ...

for its support and also states Charles Murray had the greatest influence on him.

[noiretextatique]

28. shocking

[olivelove]

12. What a name!

Richwine. Boy do the Rich ever Whine.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

85. ...

[John1956PA]

13. The intelligence of many first, second, and third generation Hispanics puts the lie to his comment.

There are many well-known intelligent children and grandchildren of Hispanic immigrants to this county.

It is a shame that sensible people like those of us who are leaving comments on this thread have to take time out of our busy days to repudiate this fool's rubbish.

[CheapShotArtist]

14. Um...

Does this fool know that many people of Hispanic descent are White? Hispanics come in all races. It has to do with a person's culture, not with mental capacity or anything biological. There are people with blond hair, light skin, and blue eyes who are Hispanic, while there are people who are darker than Obama who are Hispanic. Hence why it's listed separately from the racial question on the U.S. Census.

[Benton D Struckcheon]

27. Sometimes in the same family!

My dad was so white he turned red as a beet on his first spring exposure to the Sun, once he moved up to NYC. Then he tanned, but that first exposure was something to see.
I'm dark enough to be mistaken, repeatedly, for Indian - south Indian.
To complete this picture, my color came from my dad's side of the family.

Numbnut.

[Janecita]

93. We are an ethnicity not a race

We come in all colors. I'm Cuban, I have light brown hair, green eyes and freckles. My father was whiter than milk. We don't all look the same, the Latino stereotype is just wrong and ignorant.

[Johonny]

16. People said the same thing about Eastern Europeans in the 20s and 30s

how'd that work out?

[blackspade]

18. Who the fuck gave this asshole a PhD?

With a statement like that, his dissertation should have been rejected.

[AlbertCat]

19. Concerning low IQs

No one knows whether Whites will ever reach IQ parity with Asians, but the prediction that white immigrants, since 1492, will have low-IQ children and grandchildren is difficult to argue against.... as Jason "Rich-whine" and the Teabaggers have proven.

[Cooley Hurd]

20. Their logo is appropriate, since what he's spouting is...

...complete "Bell Curve" horseshit.

[Wait Wut]

21. Weird.

He's a dead-ringer for a friend of mine...who's further left than the majority of people I know...and, 1/2 Hispanic.

I'll have to send him this and see if I can raise his blood pressure a bit. He's a drummer, so it's not easy to do.

[BanzaiBonnie]

23. And again...

they rear their ugly heads.

[Initech]

24. The Heritage Foundation and the KKK should just merge and get it over with.

Or maybe Stormfront might be more appropriate.

[SoapBox]

25. Uhhhhhh....

Nazi Superiority Mentality?

...arrogant butt wipe.

[DreamGypsy]

29. There's a copy (scan) of the thesis online ...

... available at Huff Post: Jason Richwine Dissertation On Low Hispanic IQ Puts Heritage On Defensive

The link to the scan is at the bottom of the article's text, just above this image - of the signature page showing the members of his committee:

[alp227]

44. GEORGE BORJAS is the chair?

He is a right wing tool whose essays have appeared on white nationalist site VDARE, and he has argued for limited immigration despite being a Cuban immigrant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Borjas

[JBoy]

49. Consistent with the "I got mine, screw you" conservative mentality. n/t

[litlbilly]

30. this idiot obviously has never seen Honey Boo Boo

Amazing

[matt819]

32. Strategy

Clearly part of the GOP strategy to win the hearts and minds of the Hispanic community.

[MarianJack]

33. Typical teabagger loon!

PEACE!

[another_liberal]

34. A clown nose.

Anyone who represents "The Heritage Foundation" in public should have to wear a big, red clown nose. It should be a law.

[penndragon69]

35. This guy should know about low IQ's

He see's one each morning in the mirror.

[Galraedia]

37. Rachel Maddow - Immigration debate exposes racist influence within GOP

[Cha]

65. Good on Rachel.. thanks

Galraedia

[Beartracks]

38. His assertion is moronic, which is all the more reason I'm confused...

Wouldn't conservatives actually CHEER the notion of more low IQ voters?



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[mountain grammy]

57. Seriously, if latinos had low IQ's they'd be voting Republican.

And if this guy thinks he's right, he would push for more immigration of Republican voters. Actually I think he may be talking about 3rd and 4th generation American whites.. you know, teabaggers.

[Beartracks]

72. 'Pubs have no use for critical thinkers. n/t

[siligut]

39. Thinks he is the new William Shockley

This is the angle the GOP is working on to take the vote way from "minorities". It is going to be such beautiful and poetic irony watching these guys go down. I can hear the angels singing already.

[SamKnause]

40. Disgusting

What a despicable, disgusting, evil, arrogant, pretentious, ass clown !!!

What the F is wrong with people like this ?

Where is all this hate coming from ?

The Heritage Foundation should be declared a terrorist organization.

There are quite a few organizations is this country that preach hate that should be declared terrorist organizations.

They can spread their filth and vile as per the first amendment, but they should be listed as terrorist and watched very closely.

[pangaia]

41. YO, JASON....

If you are going to make idiotic statements, at least use correct English.
In what is your doctorate? It sure isn't English.

You should not end a sentence with a preposition; unless, of course, it happens to be the word, preposition. Then it is OK.
But you can not end a sentence with the word, against.

Go back to school.

[morningglory]

42. HE has a low IQ! nt

[aggiesal]

43. Hey Esay . . .

we all e-stupido!

I try to make my accent sound like Ricardo Montalban, but
I always sound like my primo Chuy from east-LA

Que pendejo.

[thesquanderer]

46. It is wonderful when they can state their stupidity so concisely

that it fits on a graphic.

[DeSwiss]

47. K&R

- I wonder if he's asked Mike about his kid's IQs......

[Zoeisright]

48. Just another ignorant repuke fucker

trying to make himself feel better by lying. Richwine, you are a stupid, bigoted, lying piece of shit.

[ErikJ]

50. I smell the KOCH-heads.

[patrice]

58. nailed it . . . It's got that Minuteman thing going on, that's Kochprop. nt

[AgingAmerican]

51. Hispanic Grads More Likely to Enroll in College Than Whites

As always, republicans have it ass backwards.

Here

[Sander]

52. The average IQ of members of the Heritage Foundation

The average IQ of members of the Heritage Foundation in the United States is substantially lower than that of rational-thinking human beings in our population, and the difference is likely to persist over several generations. The consequences are a lack of socioeconomic empathy among low-IQ political hacks, more underclass behavior, less social trust, and an increase in the proportion of bigoted politicians in the American right-wing think-tanks.

[patrice]

53. What's an IQ? A number, not a PERSON. People are much more than IQs. I prefer PERSONS to bigotry.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

55. What say Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio about this "study/smear campaign"?

[patrice]

56. Minuteman. VIGILANTE racist. VIOLENT people with guns. WANT armed rebellion, rogue extremists

want Violent Rebellion - and - will put us under more total control of government by ARMED government and law officers, who, unless they are treasonous, are OUR, EVERYONE'S representatives for safety and to deal with criminal violence, something important to civilization, especially since there's no real background check system in place, sales loopholes abound, and the Congress of the USA PROTECTS PRIVATE ASSAULT WEAPONS DEALERS all over the world, so "our" representation is castrated and hog-tied in order to protect the PENTAGON and their WEAPONS BUDDIES all over the world.

Immigration update will happen, without Republicans, no one is going to forget who does THE WORK in this country, so I think this kind of whining is more of a distraction from other stuff that's in the news, such as Benghazi. How many assault weapons do you suppose PRIVATE AMERICAN MERCHANTS sell in Northern Africa?

[patrice]

59. Bet he used a dbase template to do his "study", so he worked backwards from that "research"

"design", which, incidentally also let's you tailor details to desired number-outcomes.

Don't forget testing is a business.

[tanyev]

60. He's right, it is difficult to argue against.

Because anyone who believes that BS will never, ever listen to facts and logic.

[horsedoc]

61. After writing my own dissertation and evaluating many others....

I just read his introduction and I am stunned this is coming out of Harvard!

His concluding sentence: "Giving high IQ citizens of poor countries the chance to get an education that matches their cognitive skill would be a "win-win" situation". Just the fact that he is using "slang" just points to sloppy and shoddy writing.

I will have to read more of this "ground breaking" research out of Harvard (cough....overpriced education...cough cough). His hypothesis isn't "edgy" or "pushing the boundaries", its just straight up racism.

[adieu]

62. Does anyone understand how a prestigious school like Harvard

can offer a PhD to someone espousing basically 7th grade level racial claims? I remember when people said blacks can't do anything good. Then they became the best fighter pilot squadron in all of WWII. Then they became the best baseball/basketball/football players. Scientists? Plenty of them are black.

Then they said the same thing about the Chinese. Now, they're bowing the feet of asians for their academic prowess and hard work ethic.

They said the same thing about the Irish. And the Italians and the Poles and the Krauts and the Russkies and so on. But in the final analysis, there's far more overlap on skills among the different "races" than any indication of exceptionalism for any particular race in any measured category.

[timdog44]

64. This is basically

along the lines I was thinking. The Heritage Foundations is a bunch of fucks (and I don't like using that word). But how does an institution like Harvard allow a person get a PhD with a dissertation that is so racist as to be intolerable. Not that I held Harvard very high in my estimation, but they are no different than The Heritage Foundation it self. What a disgrace.

[d_r]

70. it looks like his Ph.D. is from the Kennedy school

it is in public policy.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/degrees/phd/phd-in-public-policy

An economist, George Borjas, was his major professor.
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/george-borjas

Here is Borjas's personal web page-
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/gborjas/

This looks the committee:
Charles Murray : http://www.aei.org/scholar/charles-murray/

Murray is the author of the Bell Curve and works at American Enterprise Institute.

- George Borjas: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/gborjas/

- Richard Zeckhauser: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/richard-zeckhauser

- Christopher Jencks: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/christopher-jencks

The American Enterprise Institute funded the dissertation - Richwine must have had a fellowship from them.

On the acknowledgement page Richwine writes-
"The substance of my work was positively influenced by many people, but no one was more influential than Charles Murray, whose detailed editing and relentless constructive criticism have made the final draft vastly superior to the first. I could not have asked for a better primary advisor."

However, Borjas is listed on the signature page as the committee chair, and is listed as the chair of the dissertation by the Kennedy school.

Here, I'll upload the pdf of the dissertation for you-

http://ubuntuone.com/0AYOxtwrGbiNraKT6a7x3j

[Cha]

63. Who the fuck is this grinning Idiot to make judgement on ANYONE"S

IQ? MF.

Good Pic of the Moment, EarlG

[Warren DeMontague]

66. Apparently he also attended the "Sean Hannity School Of Shellacking Your Hair To Your Head"

"Oh, it looks good on you, though."

[BlancheSplanchnik]

86. lmao!

Too funny!!

[Mkap]

69. For someone prusuing a doctorial degree

He sure is an idiot

The whole white people with superior IQ bullshit has been debunked by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs and Steel
and that's a Pulitzer prize winning book. Where European nations advanced technology because of out of opportunity and necessity. The ample supply of plants and animals in there area of the world compared to Africa and south America. And yet they were still far less superior technology wise compared to the middle east till the 19th century.

[muntrv]

71. Where's your klan regalia, asshole?

[underpants]

73. Hello... Mister McClain

[Skittles]

74. racist hack

[ScottLand]

75. The next GOP candidate for president! And the guy to head up their new outreach program!

[davidthegnome]

76. Neither a college degree...

nor a significant intellect, can make up for a revolting personality, for a complete lack of character. I suspect that this man has a suitably high IQ, was well educated... and is well aware of exactly what he's saying and why he's saying it. There are, unfortunately, far too many Professors and Doctors who may as well wipe their ass with their PHDs or even MDs, considering how much good they will do with them.

Having finally spent a year in college, I have a deep respect and even affection for Professors and intellectuals who are truly decent people. Yet, also, after having finally spent a year in college... I find that there are quite a number of people with great intellectual abilities who are truly malicious, cruel, arrogant, selfish... and ultimately, rotten to the core. It wasn't a bunch of idiots that pushed eugenics, it is not a bunch of idiots pushing similar movements now. It's highly educated, highly intelligent people who possess no sense of personal principle, no generosity, and precious little kindness beyond the superficial sort.

People like Jason Richwine (interesting last name...) are phony in the truest sense of the word - they are not real people. They are (metaphorically speaking) monsters masquerading as human. Such people have been responsible for some of the most terrible crimes ever committed by humans, for some of the most terrible things that ever made it into the history books (and for a lot that didn't).

Less than a worm, really. I wish I believed in some kind of true, spiritual karma - if I did, I would suspect that this man would eventually be reincarnated as some form of really vile bacteria.

[Clear Blue Sky]

77. Which box of Crackerjacks did he get his doctoral degree from?

[nikto]

78. This is a clear, direct view into the very heart of Republicanism and Conservatism

Looks like Latinos are getting a good look at what is inside Republican and Conservative hearts,
all over America.

Liberals have known about this for a long time.

But now it is Latinos' turn to see the ugliness that lies behind Conservatism and GOP politics.

It is the very essence of Conservatism, and always has been.

[Half-Century Man]

80. To be fair

This guy is an expert on having a low IQ. The same way he is an expert on the smiling vacuous stare.

[DonCoquixote]

81. Jesus!

This guy acts like he either walked right out of Birth of a nation or Bioshock Infinite.

[DallasNE]

82. He Doesn't Mean Hispanics

He means Mexicans. He is fine with Cubans like Mark Rubio and Ted Cruz, apparently not realizing that Hispanic means Spanish speaking. One wonders how he could ever have earned a doctorate degree.

[bravenak]

83. Nothing to see here. Just your average racist.

This is normal for them. I can't wait until the day comes when they actually surprise me. I've never been shocked by anything they say. So bored with this.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

84. holy crap.

That's .... I'm stunned, really. I ...uh ...

It just blows my mind, really, to see *that* in 2013 for godsakes? .....and from a kid, basically. A weasely looking little kid....

jesus h christ

[AZ Progressive]

87. You think this guy's comments are bad?

I happened to do some unrelated research and stumbled upon this article about Germany in 2011:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/15/germans-struggling-resolve-issues-race

"The country has no xenophobic far-right party, yet a book arguing that Turks have inferior genes is a runaway bestseller."

"Her comments were, in part, a response to a publishing sensation: Deutschland Schafft Sich Ab (Germany Is Doing Away With Itself) by Bundesbank board member Thilo Sarrazin. In apocalyptic terms, Sarrazin, a Social Democrat, conjured a future where Turks (around 5% of the population) compete to outnumber Germans, thereby "dumbing down" the country with their inferior gene pool. Blaming inbreeding among Turks and Kurds for "congenital disabilities", Sarrazin claimed immigrants from the Middle East are a "genetic minus" for the country. "But the subject is usually hushed up," he wrote. "Perish the thought that genetic factors could be partially responsible for the failure of parts of the Turkish populations in the German school system."

If the argument appalled some, the public response stunned everyone. Currently in its 14th edition, it is Germany's bestselling book since the second world war. A poll published in the national magazine Focus in October showed 31% of respondents agreeing that Germany is "becoming dumber" because of immigrants; 62% said Sarrazin's comments were "justified".

Sarrazin didn't say anything new, didn't break any taboos and didn't contribute anything to the debate," said Mekonnen Mesghena, head of migration and intercultural management at the Heinrich Böll Foundation. "But what was really shocking were the number of intellectuals who said: 'His tone wasn't right but he has a point.' ""

[gtar100]

88. The Heritage Foundation, Leadership for America <-- hahahahaha

Right. Where ever they are going, I'm not following. The light at the end of their tunnel is coming from the burning flames of hell.

We have so many very smart, thought-provoking, articulate people around. The Heritage Foundation is not where they can be found.

[union_maid]

89. And this is why

I always vote for Democrats, even when they kind of suck. In an essentially binary system, this is the alternative.

[tsuki]

90. How's that outreach working out? nt

[Dan de Lyons]

91. Check his data!

Could it be that he's missing the bottom five lines on his spreadsheet? It's been done before...

(Rogoff...)

[lunasun]

94. Maybe used his father's dissertation from the early 60's pre civil rights it looks like, and his dad

perhaps took his own dissertation from his dad's in the early 30's on the cause for Nazis and just changed the group they are currently hating perhaps

Greatgreatgrandpappy maybe had a dissertation around the Civil war on the Irish

Every generation they can groom some more haters

“If immigration was based on IQ levels, the U.S. would be a society in danger of extinction,” he says. ”It is absolutely reprehensible for The Heritage Foundation to replace real solutions with conjectures and blatantly attack recent immigrants.”
Jorge-Mario Cabrera of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA),

[fascisthunter]

95. Yes, Please Announce You Are Stupid to the Country

thank you.