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00:38 If the data shows unequal outcomes, does that mean someone was being treated unfairly, independent of what happens between people? (00:50 I meant to say there are differences *within* groups right down to the individual)

02:06 The morality of this, “you’re not getting ahead because the man is keeping you down” narrative

03:09 Facing discrimination does not mean one cannot advance, based on history.

03:47 WHAT CAN BE DONE?

03:57 Development of skills useful to economy

04:35 Incentives for work experience and strong family unit. (05:02 I meant to say two parent households)

05:13 Minimum wage laws and labor unions reduce options for building human capital

05:35 What about IQ?

06:41 Highlighting group differences to help groups also brings the criticism of those groups.

07:50 Charity to help with building skills, education etc.

08:07 Think long term and sacrifice for future instead of short term rewards.

08:43 Build foundation, not give the results. No bandaid solutions!

I had other examples of what to do, but I felt I didn’t know enough about them.

Originally Published on June 11, 2017

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00:11 Intro/Why I think persons should be skeptical when hearing about inequality and the conclusions drawn from the information.

01:41 First Point. How data on income inequality often misses key components to the argument at hand.

02:25 How data tells a different story depending on how much groups are broken into subgroups.

04:34 Second Point. Evidence against the theory of continued white supremacy in the US that is consistently ignored or diminished in its importance.

06:10 Evidence against oppression being the cause of income inequality and less income for minorities, in light of the advancement of other minorities.

07:24 Researching backwards rather than forward without prior conclusions.

07:55 Lack of global context or learning from other countries when discussing US group differences.

09:34 Third Point. Highlighting the assumption that numerical differences in outcomes means it is caused by discrimination, even when the data can be explained by other factors.

10:07 The need to change other people’s behaviour to achieve the desirable outcome of higher income for underperforming groups I think is nonsensical, and unnecessary.

11:00 The removal of self-responsibility when continuously portraying groups as victims

11:15 Fourth Point: We can experience life through data and reports, summarised with an agenda, rather than interacting with the world. Continued in Part 3. *cliffhanger*

As always, thank you for watching! Talk soon.

Sources:

SUCCESS OF SUBGROUPS OR OTHER MINORITIES

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articl…

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/0…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of…

“Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld, The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America (New York: The Penguin Press, 2014), p. 42. west indians

“Secret Weapon,” (https://www.amazon.com/Triple-Package…)

The Economist, June 20, 2015, “Special Report: Nigeria,” p. 8” nigerian immigrants (http://www.economist.com/sites/defaul…)

Excerpts From: Thomas Sowell. “Wealth, Poverty and Politics.”

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/201… (Graphing Religions and Income)

CORRELATION BETWEEN FAMILY STRUCTURE AND INCOME

https://scholar.harvard.edu/percheski…

http://houseofdebt.org/2014/04/10/fam…

http://www.fathers.com/statistics-and…

IQ AND INCOME

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/… (Intelligence and socioeconomic success: A meta-analytic review of longitudinal research, Strenze)

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/… (Do you have to be smart to be rich?)

https://thesocietypages.org/socimages… (Article Citing Above Study)

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/… (Differences in cognitive ability, per capita income, infant mortality, fertility and latitude across the states of India, Lynn, Yadav)

EARNING POTENTIAL DUE TO FIELD OF MAJOR CHOICE DIFFERING BY RACE

https://cew.georgetown.edu/wp-content…

https://trends.collegeboard.org/educa…

http://theop.princeton.edu/reports/wp… (Race and Gender Differences in College Major Choice, Dickson)

http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi… (Ability Sorting and the Returns to College Major, Arcidiacono)

Originally Published on June 7, 2017

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I will annotate as soon as I am able to! Wanted to get this out.

00:00 Hi 🙂

00:28 The fundamental existence of inequality in the world.

02:20 When is it no longer easy to accept inequality for many people?

03:14 Why does it work so well to ask others if they don’t care about poor people?

04:04 My main argument, against a specific method of responding to income inequality.

05:05 On the question of deciding who “deserves” better when wealth is not initially distributed but earned in a productivity and rewards based economy.

06:32 Ways to deal with an uncomfortable situation, long term vs. short term thinking.

07:05 On independence vs dependence and the impersonal decision-making of the state.

07:47 The morality of force vs. persuasion to have others lend a helping hand.

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Originally Published on May 24, 2017

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This is sort of a light-hearted video but possibly with major implications. I thought people might be interested. I had fun making it! I know I have completely forgotten some core concepts from some important books particularly the philosophical ones.

I mainly talk about the books and about myself and what I did until around 10:00

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Originally Published on May 16, 2017

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00:10 Intro

01:43 Why I liked the book

02:55 What I got from the book regarding his main argument on the origins of Black culture in the US.

04:26 Anecdotal tangent

05:21 How historically relations between blacks and whites in the US shifted based on immigration patterns

08:55 Alienation of middle class or educated blacks from the rest of black society

09:36 Difference between black americans and black immigrants

10:36 Some personal thoughts on the idea of ethnocentrism.

12:35 Are some cultures better than others?

14:25 How do I actually feel about the topic of “black culture”?

Yes I recorded this video a few days ago and the views were at 2000. Because the views on the Race and IQ video are shooting up so fast I decided to release this slightly early. Also for those complaining, my next video won’t be about race. I needed to get things off my chest.

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03:51 I said 80 – 90% of blacks lived in the south.

The actual quote is (p. 42) “While more than 90 percent of the antebellum black population lived in the South, the “free persons of color” were evenly divided between the states of the North and South and, within the South, they tended to leave the Deep South and gravitate toward that region’s less oppressive places farther north.217″

217. BureauoftheCensus,NegroPopulation:1790-1915(Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1918),p.55.InMississippi,forexample,thenumberofslaves more than doubled between 1840 and 1860, while the number of “free persons” of color” was nearly halved during those same years. In Arkansas, the number of slaves increased fivefold during those same years while the number of free Negroes fell by more than two-thirds. Ibid., p.57.

THIS WAS A SLIGHT MISTAKE AND I DON’T WANT TO MISQUOTE HIM. But he also states that free blacks were never more than 14% of the population so the argument still holds true. Exact quote (p43): Most black holders of doctoral degrees in the middle of the twentieth century, as well as most Negroes working in the professions in the nation’s capital at that time, were by all indications descendants of the antebellum “free persons of color”—a group that was never more than 14 percent of the black population.222”

222. See Thomas Sowell, “Three Black Histories,” in Essays and Data on American Ethnic Groups, ed. Thomas Sowell (Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute, 1978), pp. 12-13.

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Originally Published on May 8, 2017

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https://jtolaudio.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/JTOL0008+My+Honest+and+Sincere+Message+to+Black+Americans.mp3“On Personal Responsibility”

I know some people are not going to like this video. I know it is targeting a specific group. I know it is not all Black Americans. I know it may come off as condescending. I don’t know how else to say it. I guess I think this is the group that needs it the most. I have never met another group (it is a generalisation) that is so crippled by blaming externalities and lack of belief in one’s self. I know there have been real struggles. But it is not unique to one group this is the myth that is sold as compassion but what I ultimately think is dishonesty. And the worst part is the hate it festers. Why focus on what other people are supposedly doing wrong? What can you do right? No matter what anyone else is doing, the first person you answer to is yourself.

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Originally Published on May 2, 2017

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HYPOCRISY: Hypocrisy is the contrivance of a false appearance of virtue or goodness, while concealing real character or inclinations, especially with respect to religious and moral beliefs hence in general sense, dissimulation, pretense, sham. Hypocrisy is the practice of engaging in the same behavior or activity for which one criticizes another. In moral psychology, it is the failure to follow one’s own expressed moral rules and principles.[1] Lammers, Joris (2011), From Wikipedia

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03:20 On music

04:45 On hair

09:07 On dominant groups

11:18 Where persons could alternatively focus their attention

12:18 How I lost a friend

07:50 Yes, I know that the history of swing dance involves Black Americans, but that’s not who I’ve seen doing it from my introduction to it where I’ve been in NY including NYC.

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Hi there!! Just adding my voice.

What are your thoughts on cultural appropriation, regardless of its logical shortcomings in terms of “stealing”?

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Originally Published on April 20, 2017

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