Only months after Donald Trump Jr. floated Laura Loomer as a White House press secretary, Loomer used her platform on Rumble to launch into a half-hour long racist screed against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Somalians living in America, birthright citizenship, and Muslims. Loomer begun the show by referring to Rep. Omar as a “black dog” whose “district is literally Somalia,” and claimed that Omar’s constituents are "breeding like rabbits.”
and claimed that Omar’s constituents are “breeding like rabbits. I guess they’ve never heard of something called birth control.
You mean the thing Republicans want to make illegal next?
Yeah. The irony is huge there.
Oh, that’s just for non-wealthy white people. The “low iq” people will get forcible sterilization.
Incorrect. The low-IQ people will be forced to breed (while being denied any form of support) so the factories have a limitless pool of workers to exploit.
Yeah, but their racism one other bigotry plays a role, especially with the wannabe Nazis at hand. Forcible sterilization has been done before.
Used as a means of controlling “undesirable” populations – immigrants, people of color, poor people, unmarried mothers, the disabled, the mentally ill – federally-funded sterilization programs took place in 32 states throughout the 20th century.
Recently, too
https://bpr.berkeley.edu/2020/11/04/americas-forgotten-history-of-forced-sterilization/
In early September [2020], a nurse working at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Georgia came forward […] claiming that numerous involuntary hysterectomies (uterus removal surgeries) were performed on detained immigrant women.
Throughout the 20th century, nearly 70,0000 people (overwhelmingly working-class women of color) were sterilized in over 30 states. Black women, Latina women, and Native American women were specifically targeted. From the 1930s to the 1970s, nearly one-third of the women in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, were coerced into sterilization when government officials claimed that Puerto Rico’s economy would benefit from a reduced population.
I also believe in IQ science.
Specifically the science showing that conservatives have low IQs.
Really interesting! Particularly that it’s childhood intelligence, not adult, that determines later prejudice, suggesting that racist outlooks are deeply ingrained and set early in life. It’s not clear if the second analysis considers contemporary reasoning skills, but I also suspect early and adult intelligence are highly correlated
It’s also important to keep in mind that a lot of intelligence testing is meant for use on children. It’s a lot easier to gauge “how developed is your brain compared to what we expect at your age” than “how smart is this 25 year old”.
I suppose it is possible that they only studied childhood intelligence in the study.
I’m curious if the intelligence tests somehow account for the quality of their education.edit: it says yes right there in the abstract lol oops
You really shouldn’t. IQ is mostly bullshit, the only thing it measures accurately is how well you do in an IQ test.
Exactly. An Amazonian hunter-gatherer might be a genius. He might be able to do all sorts of prodigy-level things if he were raised in a modern Western society. And maybe as it is, he’s the best hunter-gatherer in his tribe because of how smart he is.
But give him an IQ test (for the purposes of this thought experiment you’re somehow able to do it despite him not knowing how to read) and he could very likely fail it simply because it is based on a Western view of the world for which he has no frame of reference.
I once did a music video for a guy who was the most amazing country music fiddle player you would have ever seen. Like fantastic complex improvisations when he played. I don’t even like much country and I was blown away. When we had him sign the contract, he could barely write his own name.
Was he a genius or was he an idiot? Was his IQ high or low?
for the purposes of this thought experiment you’re somehow able to do it despite him not knowing how to read
Don’t worry, there’s plenty of precedent for giving IQ tests to people in languages they can’t read and then judging them for doing badly at it!
Was the guy’s name Johnny and did he win a fiddle battle against the devil
It was not and he did not, but he definitely played fiddle far better than Charlie Daniels.
Every time I hear that song I think the devil played it better. ;-p
The frustration that we feel over bigotry can be expressed in so many ways. We don’t need to rely on ableist slurs. Alternative phrases are more descriptive, and more accurate; unintelligence is not the prevailing problem with right wing extremists, for instance, nor is it the cause of their actions. Ignorance, prejudice, and disregard for the rights of others are.
Conflating harmful actions with lack of intelligence does everyone a disservice. To suggest that “stupidity” that is what makes people act badly undermines any real accountability. The causes of problematic behavior rarely have anything to do with mental acuity, and we can’t properly address harmful behavior while being so reductive about its causes. Carelessness, bias, hatred, greed, closed-mindedness, indifference – these are the traits that lead to oppression. Our intelligence is not the issue so much as our sense of compassion and justice.
A person can be unintelligent and still know right from wrong. There are people with cognitive disabilities who I respect a thousand times more than those who are supposedly more abled. They have stronger principles, seek to better themselves, and are committed to being good people. They are just capable of being sensitive and caring as everyone else. To imply that they aren’t is outrageous.
Laura really isn’t in a position to insult anyone else’s intelligence.
https://www.boredpanda.com/fake-slashed-tire-tweet-laura-loomer/
God, I just posted that same link like two days ago.
Their “IQ by race” schtick doesn’t even hold up to the most basic questioning, let alone actual science.
They want to claim it’s okay to abuse and enslave black people because they’ve got a chart that says they have the lowest average IQ.
But they seem to mysteriously lose all interest in the idea when you suggest removing race from it entirely and just testing individuals directly, shipping anyone below a threshold off to a concentration camp.
Since it was their idea, it seems only fair that we start by testing the nazis and their closest friends and family.
Deep down, they know their ranks would be decimated.
IQ by “race” discredits IQ (and biological determinism)
Ask: what is a ‘black person’ or a ‘white person’, and you’ll find social categories, not biological ones. So, the fact that IQ consistently finds differences between these groups proves that it’s not a measure of biological quantity.
It’d be like IQ testing showed that blondes really were dimmer than their peers, but the effect held for bottle blondes as well.
I didn’t mean to imply those were the only problems with their racist bullshit, just that anybody should be able to see the deep flaws in it, even with no additional knowledge, long before they made it part of their abhorrent personality.
More than decimated that means only reduced by a tenth, it’d be cut in half at least
Colloquially, it is often used to simply mean “greatly reduced”.
My god, this story just keeps getting better
They debunked her at every single attempt for her to double down on the “slashing” that was beautiful, she’s definitely an attention seeking fascist POS.
😳 I think that tire lived through
Watergate.the civil rights erathe space race.
I live in Omar’s district and I can tell you first hand, it’s possibly the most gentrified district in the state. If there’s anything wrong with the it, it’s us white people.
I drive through every day, there’s plenty of niche little places that are fun in the area. (Coming up cedar ave, for example.)
Definitely white people ruining it. “Oh you have art and culture. That now belongs to us.”
Hell yeah. I’ve been to some great shows at Triple Rock and then we’d go eat at the falafel place up the street.
Dr. Henry “Indiana” Jones: This belongs in a museum!
Proceeds to fuck up the natives while “liberating” their literal god
Like I’m gonna trust some Somalian to tell me the demographics of their district. /s
Loomer is a horrid shitstain.
Excuse me, excuse me. She didn’t put herself – and you have some very bad people in that group, but you also have people that were very fine people, on both sides. You have people in that group. Excuse me, excuse me. I read the same article as you did. You have people in that group that are there to protest to them, a very, very important issue.
Cromulent.
Crepuscular.
Corpulent
Voluble.
Vomitescent.
Emetic?
You can tell by the things coming out of her asshole mouth.
I read the summary and I thought that’s pretty vile. I read the whole article and feel like I need a shower.
Woah woah woah I thought they were pro-life, so why is “breeding like rabbits” bad?
Maybe the rabbits are the wrong color? That must be it.
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They can’t get any more brazen at this point without just using the N-word.
Which I am amazed hasn’t happened yet to be honest.
Because that’s the line that might actually lose them some supporters and they know it. There’s still a pretty big chunk of that camp that likes to pretend “oh, that was out of context” or “oh, they didn’t mean it that way, just about insert specific situation here”. If they go all in with straight up racial slurs those deflections don’t really work anymore.
That being said, I wouldn’t put it past Trump to slip up on that soon because he’s been starting to get a bit unhinged even by his usual standard as of late.
You remember that line from The Boys where Stormfront says
People love what I have to say. They just hate the word “Nazi.” That’s all.
Goddamn were they right about that one. It’s the same as when Alex Jones blames the “globalists” because he knows outright saying “the Jews” is bad.
Many years ago, journalist Jon Ronson did a miniseries in the UK called Secret Rulers of the World. In one episode, he follows around David Icke as he talks about lizard people and asks Icke if he means Jews when he says lizard people and Icke won’t give him a straight answer. In another episode, he follows Alex Jones to Bohemian Gove. When he’s asked if Icke means Jews, Jones’ response was, “well there are Jews and then there are Jews.”
Of course, only those of us in America who are Anglophilic enough to watch such things via sailing the high seas would have heard him say that, and it was long before he was at the level he is now.
If you’ve never heard of it, there’s a podcast called Knowledge Fight that’s devoted to debunking Alex Jones. They even had Jon Ronson on late last year. It’s weird to me to see how prevalent pro-Israel antisemitism hypocrisy is in conspiracy circles, but I guess if they were rational they wouldn’t be conspiracy nuts in the first place.
Exactly, I don’t mean outright intentionally (at first anyway). I’m amazed that Trump or Greene or Boebert… one of the nuts… hasn’t slipped up yet.
Ah, fair. My bet is if it happens, it’ll be mid rant at one of Trumps little fascism pep rallies.
Pretty sure they’re still scared shitless of getting punched in the mouth.
That doesn’t mean they won’t slip up at some point. Especially Trump as his brain turns to Swiss cheese.
If Trump used a hard-R n-word at a rally his support among Republicans would increase, and they’d trot out Tim Scott to say how it’s not a big deal.
No doubt, the people who would absolutely love it would outnumber the ones with any level of concern.
I thought jsut yesterday there was a headline “republican goes on wildly racist rant” but with different names. Hmmm. Hmmmmmmmm.
A black dog ? Wow.
Hey hey momma said the way you move, gonna make you shake, gonna make you groove.
Of course they believe in it. They are doing everything to keep the IQ low, or they would lose their voter base.
I’ll bet she also believes in astrology science too!
I find it very curious that some of the worst examples of a human tend to be convinced that they are part of a group of better people.
Wasn’t the Omar thing mostly due to a mistranslation?
Saw a headline saying so.
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