{"id":42013,"date":"2010-07-01T09:03:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T15:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=42013"},"modified":"2010-07-01T09:06:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T15:06:15","slug":"ideology-doesnt-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=42013","title":{"rendered":"Ideology doesn&#8217;t matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/isteve.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/ideology-doesnt-matter.html\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Sailer<\/a> is never afraid to look Political Correctness in the eye.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The background is that the winners of WWII, America and Britain, kept their old-fashioned elitist colleges like Harvard, Yale, Oxford, and Cambridge old-fashioned and elitist. The losers, like Germany, France, and Italy, after the war trashed their great universities on the altar of egalitarianism by going to open admissions. (In the U.S., CCNY was the only famous college to take the Spirit of &#8217;68 seriously enough to dump selective admissions.) Today, that&#8217;s why ambitious Korean and Chinese students want to go to American or British universities, not to Continental ones: We won The War.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Whereas imposing a quota will suddenly produce creative risk-takers.  Right. That&#8217;s why Google was founded by Michelle Obama.<\/p>\n<p>To an American, it&#8217;s amusing to hear the French come up with the exact  same cliches and fallacies as Americans have been telling each other for  40 years. Indeed, there are problems caused by reliance on entrance  exams in terms of selecting for creativity and the like. But quotas do  zip to fix those real problems. It&#8217;s not like the American quota kids  all flock to Silicon Valley and start-up their own firms. A quota won&#8217;t  give France its own Silicon Valley.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;With the objective of a great social opening,&#8221; the U.S. has been trying  to invent &#8220;a better measure of young people\u2019s  intelligence&#8221; for 45  years, but we keep finding out that the old tests we had before the  Great Society worked fine. It&#8217;s the test-takers who turned out to be the  problem, not the test. But why should the French government learn from  the U.S. experience? The U.S. government never learns from the U.S.  experience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Sailer is never afraid to look Political Correctness in the eye. The background is that the winners of WWII, America and Britain, kept their old-fashioned elitist colleges like Harvard, Yale, Oxford, and Cambridge old-fashioned and elitist. The losers, like Germany, France, and Italy, after the war trashed their great universities on the altar of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42013"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42015,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42013\/revisions\/42015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}