Monday, April 19, 2010

Half Sigma makes a fool of himself again

Half Sigma on the whiteness of Jews:
The typical Greek is darker looking than the typical Ashkenazi Jew from Northern Europe, and White Nationalists don't think that Jews are white, so I guess Greeks too are not white, despite being from Europe. (Unfortunately for Greeks, they don't benefit from affirmative action, unlike Europeans from Spain who get to check the Hispanic box).

Of course, if high IQ is one of the hallmarks separating whites from less intelligent races, then Jews are actually the whitest ethnicity.

This would then mean that the Chinese, who have an average IQ of around 107, would be whiter than many Europeans. When people use the term white they usually mean someone of indigenous European ancestry. Jews, including Ashkenazi Jews, are mostly of Middle Eastern ancestry. According to a 2009 genetics paper by Michael Seldin and his colleagues:
In addition, the 93 AIM set provides population substructure information that can, for example, distinguish Arab and Ashkenazi from Northern European population groups and Pygmy from other Sub-Saharan African population groups.

AIM stands for ancestry informative markers which are genetic markers that exhibit substantially different frequencies between populations from different geographical regions. The fact that Ashkenazi Jews are more like Arabs than Northern Europeans, in terms of their DNA, means that the Jews are not white.

1 comment:

Average Joe said...

http://kvetcher.net/2009/06/3426/overreaching-on-jewish-whiteness/