“Trump is in very classic terms an idiot. He knows nothing about anything. He listens to no one. And, because he has this thing against actual experts, he has to one-up them with a level of certainty and extremism. (Michael Wolff, author of Fire and Fury, as told by Sam Nunberg, Trump’s political advisor who “really knows what is inside Trumps head.”)
Every accusation of a white supremacist is a confession. Accusation of “white replacement” is confession of native extermination, accusation of “white marginalization” is confession of white domination, accusation of Voter Rights Act is confession of voter suppression, accusation of Affirmative Action is confession of generational advantages of white supremacism, accusation of DEI is confession of white mediocrity, and accusation of Black “low IQ” is confession of white idiocy.
Besides DEI, Trump’s new n-word is “low IQ” – a term he disproportionately, if not exclusively, uses to belittle highly intelligent Black Americans highly critical of him, especially young, charismatic, eloquent, and elegant Black women beaming with self-pride. According to Trump, congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is a “very low-IQ individual”, congresswoman Maxine Waters is an “extraordinarily low-IQ person”, and so are journalists like Don Lemon, and basketball stars like Lebron James. Former White House aid and Television star Omarosa was not even a “low IQ human being”, she was an animal – a dog.
“When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break and give her a job at the White House, I guess it didn’t work out. Good work by general Kelly for quickly firing that dog.” (Donald J. Trump)
Trump’s former Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended Trump’s deprecation of Black intelligence by stating that Trump is “an equal opportunity person who calls things like he sees it.” In other words, according to Trump’s own spokesperson, Trump calls Blacks “low IQ” only because he sees Blacks to be less intelligent than Whites.
Trump got his “low IQ” disparagement of Blacks most probably from J. D. Vance who, in turn, got it from Peter Theil – the apartheid crook Peter Theil who bankrolled J.D Vance’s meteoric rise from obscurity to prominence. Peter Theil, in turn, got it from the software developer Curtis Yarvin. As the founder of the far-right movement called Dark Enlightenment which opposes enlightenment values like human right and democracy, Mr. Yarvin had profound influence on Peter Theil, Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, and their white supremacist cohorts.
“I am racist before racism became a fashion.” (Curtis Yarvin)
Mr. Yarvin is the norm rather than the exception to white supremacism. Nowadays, white teenagers who are overtrained (drilled) to be highly conversant in highly structured machine languages consider themselves high IQ and openly and proudly claim to be Black hating white supremacists. However, they claim so only because they are least conversant in the least structured social languages and, therefore, deeply resent the social skills of their Black peers. Their overt white supremacism is a compensation for their extreme “social inferiority”. Sexual motivation being one of the most, if not the most, drivers of human behavior (especially of the youth), such teenagers would rather be social but since they can’t, those who can become their sour grapes – their objects of ridicule. The “social inferiority” requirement for such “computer superiors” was clearly expressed by none other one of their biggest employers – Alex Karp who, together with the apartheid crook Peter Theil, founded Palantir Technologies.
“Gen Z can either have a social life at age 20 or be successful – but they can’t do both.” (Alex Karp)
“Nerds” are so called for a very good reason. They are singularly focused on a single field and, therefore, are the least all-rounded individuals. They extrapolate their expertise in their single field to all fields and speak and act as if they are all-knowing gurus in all fields, be it in history, politics, science or engineering. As such, they have no qualms – not an iota of doubt – about making all-encompassing generalizations. In short, these nerds are the very embodiments of “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.” As such, they are grave dangers to society, if only because ordinary people seem to concur with them that because they are experts in a single field, they have to be experts in all fields so much so that their opinion about any topic, however far that topic is from their field of expertise, is taken to be an indisputable fact by most people. One need not look no further than Elon Musk and Peter Theil to see the point.
Elon Musk tried to take control of the federal government with young, reclusive computer nerds who have no clue as to how governments run and are completely devoid of sympathy or empathy for government workers, trained as they were to deal with machines, and not with humans. They spend most of their time gazing at computers that they themselves have become computers, thinking and acting like computers. Being soulless human computers, they suffer from “social inferiority” so chronic that overt racism towards soulful Blacks is their only way of compensation.
The computer nerd Mr. Yarvin considers himself high IQ only because he is drilled to be highly conversant in a highly structured computer language or languages. He then generalizes his own view of himself to proudly claim whites have inherently higher IQ than Blacks. What Mr. Yarvin conveniently forgets is that IQ tests are at best pseudo-scientific tests designed by whites for whites and that, if Asians score higher than whites on these tests, it is only because they tend to be more white than whites and that, if these IQ tests correlate with job performance, it is only because the American system is a white by white for white system.
Test results indicate more of test preparation than intelligence and test preparation is heavily dependent on socioeconomic factors which, in white supremacist America, strongly favor whites and white-aligned Asians. The fact that almost all “Spelling Bee” winners are of Indian origin has absolutely no bearing on the English proficiency of Indians, and even on the winners themselves. If anything, it indicates excessive coaching and drilling on esoteric words which have little to no practical value, thereby indicating the extent to which Indian Parents would go to be more English than the English.
In his own vernacular, a young Black rapper knows much more about practical English than most endowed professors of English and, if freestyle rapping on any subject were to be an IQ test, whites and Asians would have failed miserably and would surely be called “low IQ”. Above all Curtis Yarvin and “computer nerds” like him, trained as they were in highly structured machine languages, would surely be the lowest of the low IQ. So much for IQ test and intelligence.
For whatever reason or reasons, Blacks tend to achieve more under less favorable conditions than Whites under more favorable conditions. If the so-called “founding fathers” of America were not ultimate hypocrites and if America had been true to its declaration that “all men are created equal” and treated Blacks equal to whites and provided Blacks every opportunity it provided whites, what has already happened in sports would surely have happened in all other fields. As a result, whites would by now have been a miniscule minority in science, technology, engineering, literature etc. What keeps whites an overwhelming majority in these fields is not their “high IQ”, as the Curtis Yarvins of America would like us to believe, but their generational advantages through white supremacism.
White supremacists can raise themselves up only by lowering Blacks and such a zero-sum game has always been their modus operandi. A white idiot’s indirect way of calling himself extremely smart is calling a highly intelligent Black stupid. Trump’s constant disparagement of Mr. Crockett as a “low IQ” is his way of indirectly saying, “I am more intelligent than the super intelligent Ms. Crockett”, though he is nothing more than an 8-years-old boy in a 78-years-old body.
On the other hand, Trump’s mega fanatics of MAGA are so unbelievably idiotic that the idiotic Trump plays with their emotions like a child plays with his toys. The con artist Trump is astute enough to know that white supremacists enraged by the election of Obama and the little progress made in the direction of multiracial democracy after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 are venting their anger through him and, therefore, are overtly or covertly applauding him every time he insults Blacks, especially the intelligence of highly intelligent and successful Blacks who are envied by white supremacists. The more vulgar his insults of prominent Blacks, the stronger the support from his white supremacist base, especially from poor, uneducated whites aptly referred to as deplorables by Hillary Clinton. As such, Trump in a vicious circle and has no choice other than being increasingly vulgar towards Blacks so much so that when his “low IQ” disparagement of Blacks becomes ineffective because of overuse, he has to coin a new one. His support from his base, if not his very existence, depends on his constant demeaning of Blacks.
The problem for Blacks is that the one slated to follow the idiotic Trump may be somewhat smart and, therefore, much more dangerous. Trump is a narcissist who would do evil to satisfy his narcissism. However, Vance is an inherently evil person who does evil for evil’s sake, just like his mentor Peter Theil. Therefore, those who wish Trump would be impeached or die a natural death to be replaced by Vance should be careful what they wish for or should be prepared for the worse.
Mesfin Arega
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