Charles wanted to find some way of helping the low IQ without counter productive moral or state intervention.
Ultimately though, what this boils down to is "let's just give up on poors/blacks, its pointless."
Charles doesn't actually mean that (he kind of does with immigration, but let's leave that aside).
But most people aren't going to devote their lives to trying to do the individual in person charity Charles called for (and I don't mean money) to slightly straighten out the lives of the left behind. If it's more complicated then writing a check or passing a law, forget about it. So functionally it feels like giving up.
I used to visit some refurbished factories that had been turned into condos, and they had pictures and pamphlets about what the area was like back in the factory age. Lots a working class people living conservative lives heavily involved in their Methodist churches. I think in an era where working class people had valuable economic roles capitalist, religious leaders, local politicians, etc all put a lot of work into keeping them on the straight and narrow because doing so had a huge economic payoff for the people doing the work. Nowadays they are just a Medicaid reimbursement.
Abel Dean's experience reminds me that when, several weeks ago, I asked a chatbot to suggest a few movies about terrorism in which the terrorist was Muslim (as opposed to a greedy corporation, a neo-Nazi group, a rogue government official, etc., although I didn't actually say this), the bot responded with a sermon about the evils of Islamophobia.
Charles wanted to find some way of helping the low IQ without counter productive moral or state intervention.
Ultimately though, what this boils down to is "let's just give up on poors/blacks, its pointless."
Charles doesn't actually mean that (he kind of does with immigration, but let's leave that aside).
But most people aren't going to devote their lives to trying to do the individual in person charity Charles called for (and I don't mean money) to slightly straighten out the lives of the left behind. If it's more complicated then writing a check or passing a law, forget about it. So functionally it feels like giving up.
I used to visit some refurbished factories that had been turned into condos, and they had pictures and pamphlets about what the area was like back in the factory age. Lots a working class people living conservative lives heavily involved in their Methodist churches. I think in an era where working class people had valuable economic roles capitalist, religious leaders, local politicians, etc all put a lot of work into keeping them on the straight and narrow because doing so had a huge economic payoff for the people doing the work. Nowadays they are just a Medicaid reimbursement.
Abel Dean's experience reminds me that when, several weeks ago, I asked a chatbot to suggest a few movies about terrorism in which the terrorist was Muslim (as opposed to a greedy corporation, a neo-Nazi group, a rogue government official, etc., although I didn't actually say this), the bot responded with a sermon about the evils of Islamophobia.