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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt is looks like Dump reserves one type of insult for a specific group....
See if you can find what these people have in common.
I really didn't need more reasons to hate the man.

underpants
(190,861 posts)Scientific racist - the writer. This became a dog whistle from back then.
Redleg
(6,503 posts)It gave racists a "scientific" reason for their racism. As I recall, the American Psychological Association commissioned a taskforce to investigate this and they had a good number of criticisms for the book. First of all, there was no peer-review process. Second, the authors made some erroneous inferences based on their data in favoring the genetics explanation without due consideration of environmental and social impacts.
underpants
(190,861 posts)So Charles Murray just took his data and used it to back his preconceived result. Murray has made a lot of money as a speaker ever since.
It was not only not peer reviewed but when the data used was evaluated by several (really all of them) actual experts they couldn’t find anything or any way to come to what Murray included in the book.
valleyrogue
(2,115 posts)He wrote a long article in 1971 for The Atlantic about "I.Q." which created a storm of controversy.
He was one of many in academia upset that minorities and especially women were gaining a foothold in academia thanks to affirmative action. This attitude lay at the root of the dubious popularity of the pseudoscience of "evolutionary psychology," then called "sociobiology."
Herrnstein taken to task: https://archive.scienceforthepeople.org/vol-4/v4n2/public-statement-herrnstein-controversy/
underpants
(190,861 posts)Sounds like they almost had the book written and then found something to support it in their minds.
valleyrogue
(2,115 posts)Murray simply capitalized on it because it seemed to support his own racist, sexist, "libertarian" notions.
Redleg
(6,503 posts)since I first read about it. People like Jordan Peterson don't give me much reason to change my mind about it.
valleyrogue
(2,115 posts)dressed up in scientific trappings. It was always a mostly a anti-feminist reaction to women's increasing foothold in society. It tries to justify male assholery by claiming it is all biological. MRAs like Peterson use it as a weapon in support of patriarchy.
Redleg
(6,503 posts)I am in an I-O pyschology-adjacent field (organizational behavior) and so haven't had much exposure to the EP stuff in grad school. I assumed EP's emphasis was on the universal, hard-wired aspects of the psychological processes.
Ritabert
(1,144 posts)BigMin28
(1,682 posts)Is an admission with tsf.
Moostache
(10,532 posts)Wounded Bear
(62,061 posts)At the King of the Low IQ individuals calling others low IQ.
RANDYWILDMAN
(3,053 posts)the people he hates the most are smart and self assured, something he is clearly NOT !
What a dirtbag, he is, my apologies to dirt bags, he is much worse than that
eppur_se_muova
(39,067 posts)Turnip *thinks* he's self-assured, but he's actually self-deluded.
And I'm not about to call him "self-possessed". He's clearly possessed, but not that kind of possessed.
617Blue
(1,931 posts)markpkessinger
(8,742 posts)As I have often pointed out to right wing bigots who insist they are not racist because "I would never use the n-word" (or some equally lame reason), when you provide food, water and plenty of sunshine to bigotry, it matters little whether you, yourself, use such language or engage in openly bigoted behavior!"
democrank
(11,491 posts)He offers NOTHING that benefits mankind.
barbtries
(30,449 posts)but he never ever will. his pathology circumvents it. he can be humiliated and know he's been humiliated, but he will never have the introspection or empathy required to experience shame. never.
dalton99a
(88,714 posts)whathehell
(30,162 posts)that particular insult seems reserved for Women of color only.
calimary
(86,496 posts)You’re going to have to face it, donald. Whether you like it or not. Whether you want to or not.
The Pope has a bigger following than YOU will EVER have!!! EVER and EVER, AMEN!!!
Frankly, EVERY Pope will have a bigger following than you’ve ever had, on into the future.
usonian
(17,990 posts)Some kook said something similar long ago.
3Hotdogs
(14,218 posts)They're all woke.
republianmushroom
(20,062 posts)Geniuses, if the instructions are printed on the heel.
barbtries
(30,449 posts)(never mind gw) is definitely stupid and deranged enough to believe that just being Black means a person is stupid. that's how fucking stupid he is.
Jasmine Crockett's brilliance is in his face but he cannot see it over the color of her skin. that's how fucking stupid he is.
dchill
(42,457 posts)...like, in the mirror.
NNadir
(35,918 posts)...concept.
S.o.s. same old SHIT......
forgotmylogin
(7,858 posts)Whereas "DEI" is the administration-wide catch-all racist, phobic, misogynist term.
Bluejeans
(108 posts)..."It takes one to know one!"
So following my mother's saying, Trump is a low IQ person who can recognize another low IQ person!
mjvpi
(1,642 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(163,961 posts)Joinfortmill
(18,137 posts)electric_blue68
(21,573 posts)Ms. Toad
(37,003 posts)He had called all three low IQ individuals.
Chat GPT is designed to be conversational, not factual.
70sEraVet
(4,548 posts)I just did a google search of "trump says low IQ" and it turns out he reserves that phrase for only the people he wishes to insult!