Ashkenazi Jews Have the Highest IQs on Average, But Then There’s Jen Rubin
16th January 2025
Before we discuss Jen Rubin and her “exciting new online platform,” let’s first take time to examine the problem of stereotypes. Being a member of the Appalachian-American community (we consider “hillbilly” to be an offensive slur), I know a few things about belonging to an ethnic group with reputational issues. This is why, despite my noted musical abilities, I never learned to play the banjo. Also, I’ve never lived in a mobile home, I don’t drink moonshine and my wife is not my cousin.
One has a duty to try to avoid behaviors that might contribute to negative stereotypes of one’s ethnic group. However, one must acknowledge that stereotypes don’t arise for no reason, but rather have some basis in fact. The stereotype of hillbillies as lazy and stupid arose at a time when the dangers of the hookworm parasite were unknown; a disease that sabotages health cannot be prevented if you don’t know what causes it, and the South suffered as a result. Nowadays, we have hillbillies graduating from Yale Law, thank you very much, and so it’s time to stop the anti-hillbilly hate speech. (Stay off the moonshine, J.D.)
Well, I could continue that rant indefinitely, but the point is that group averages are not predictive for individuals. Ashkenazi Jews have the highest average IQ of any ethnic group and yet, there’s the helplessly stupid Jen Rubin who thinks we’re going to believe her when she claims she voluntarily left her job at the Washington Post, rather than getting axed as deadwood at a newspaper that’s lost readership and revenue at a startling pace in recent years. So, in announcing she’s going to launch “The Contrarian” with Democrat apparatchik Norm Eisen, Jen Rubin delivers a sanctimonious lecture about how “billionaire owners of major media outlets have betrayed their audiences’ loyalty and sabotaged journalism’s sacred mission — defending, protecting and advancing democracy.” And she’s going to fight the good fight for the “sacred mission” with . . . a Substack blog? Because that’s what her gushing about an “exciting new online platform” is about, as if there were something unique being offered, rather than a mere $7-a-month newsletter on Substack. John Nolte quips: “The good news is that The Contrarian’s subscription fee will be $7 per month, which means we will all save $7 per month by not reading Jennifer Rubin.”