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“I really do believe in IQ science”: Laura Loomer, Trump ally floated for a potential White House position, goes on wildly racist rant against Rep. Ilhan Omar (www.mediamatters.org)

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Only months after Donald Trump Jr. floated Laura Loomer as a White House press secretary, Loomer used her platform on Rumble to launch into a half-hour long racist screed against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Somalians living in America, birthright citizenship, and Muslims. Loomer begun the show by referring to Rep. Omar as a "black dog" whose "district is literally Somalia," and claimed that Omar's constituents are "breeding like rabbits.”

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[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

You really shouldn't. IQ is mostly bullshit, the only thing it measures accurately is how well you do in an IQ test.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

Exactly. An Amazonian hunter-gatherer might be a genius. He might be able to do all sorts of prodigy-level things if he were raised in a modern Western society. And maybe as it is, he's the best hunter-gatherer in his tribe because of how smart he is.

But give him an IQ test (for the purposes of this thought experiment you're somehow able to do it despite him not knowing how to read) and he could very likely fail it simply because it is based on a Western view of the world for which he has no frame of reference.

I once did a music video for a guy who was the most amazing country music fiddle player you would have ever seen. Like fantastic complex improvisations when he played. I don't even like much country and I was blown away. When we had him sign the contract, he could barely write his own name.

Was he a genius or was he an idiot? Was his IQ high or low?

[-] Skua@kbin.social 15 points 9 months ago

for the purposes of this thought experiment you’re somehow able to do it despite him not knowing how to read

Don't worry, there's plenty of precedent for giving IQ tests to people in languages they can't read and then judging them for doing badly at it!

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Was the guy's name Johnny and did he win a fiddle battle against the devil

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

It was not and he did not, but he definitely played fiddle far better than Charlie Daniels.

[-] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Every time I hear that song I think the devil played it better. ;-p

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