Saturday, May 21, 2016

Politicizing Intelligence

IN MY HONEST OPINION, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton are smarter than George Bush or George Bush Junior. Just my opinion, of course. I could be wrong. I just can't see any of the Bushes as a Rhodes scholar, like Clinton, or law professor, like Obama. According to my conservative friends, this opinion makes me "hilariously condescending", (a condescending way to modify "condescending" if ever there were one.) A liberal, who believes that two liberal ex presidents are smarter than two conservative ex presidents; how condescending is that? After all, they all have Ivy league degrees, so, mustn't we consider them all intellectually equal, in order avoid being condescending, in order to be fair, and politically correct? I could've sworn that conservatives did not like political correctness, and were not reluctant to accept individual differences and inequality of outcome? Yes, we all have different talents and abilities, and that's what makes the world go 'round. How many Americans out there think that Ronald Reagan was as intelligent as John F. Kennedy, or Bill Clinton? Or that the Bushes are as smart as Clinton and Obama? Is there any truth in the highly arguable notion that liberals are smarter than conservatives? Is it true that world class universities and university towns tend to be left wing? What percentage of students at Harvard is right wing, like, say, "lyin" Ted Cruz, and what is the percentage of lefties? The way to answer these questions is to do the research, and it is quite possible that somebody already has, and that the people in control of the means of information dissemination don't like the results, and therefore do not widely publish them. You would, of course, almost expect conservative researchers to conclude that the more right wing the person, the smarter the person, which seems dubious at best.

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