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That’s Japanese pseudoscience

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That widdow baby can barely hold a knife!

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He’s 18 now and those are the pictures the media is running? How can you be a father of one of the dead girls and not go on a rampage?

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They pulled the same thing with Trayvon Martin. All the pictures of him were from when he was eleven years old.

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I’ve heard about this before (probably from Steve). No doubt it’s genetic.

I seem to recall reading about four identical quadruplets, all of whom developed schizophrenia.

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The split personality is caused by the notions of multi-culturalism and identity politics. The child grows up being told to be more than one kind of person. People naturally need to feel part of where they live. To be Roman, among Romans, in Rome.

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Schizophrenia is not at all a split personality. It's hallucinations, delusions (inc. paranoia), and disorganized thinking.

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the root of the word is Greek for ‘split’— perhaps a split from reality?

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Yes. Identity politics increases the pandemic of dissociation. Whites who have been absorbed by the race/gender/climate have been mentally hijacked. They now find meaning in their own dissolution.

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Vitamin D deprivation? Something about the UV light in such a northern clime?

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Blacks likely have the same rate of schizophrenia in the tropics. Not related to geography AFAIK.

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I don't think that's true. Or at least, show some receipts.

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I found two sources on schizophrenia worldwide that are completely different. So I will say: I don’t know.

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I would have thought the short, hard lives of Caribbean slaves would have weeded out more mental illness genes instead of increasing the rate over Africans, but maybe crazies were more likely to be enslaved and less likely to be ostracized by their enslaved peers than they would have been at home in Africa.

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Since Schizophrenia often does not manifest itself until the mid to late twenties, the genes would often be passed on before the disease became a hindrance to reproduction.

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I thought it was late teens for some. Perhaps the slaves reproduced earlier than in Africa. I don't know what the male/female ratio was, but if there was more promiscuity than in Africa, bad genes could have spread further. Maybe many Mrs. Rochesters (and their nutty brothers) in Europe were exiled to the Caribbean instead of the other way 'round, and the higher rate came from white genes. Or like the sickle cell gene, there's something in schizophrenia genes that protects one from West Indian diseases.

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In most traditional cultures, women already have a few children by their late teens, including formerly in white, Western culture, until we became “enlightened” and “progressive”

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Aug 4·edited Aug 4Liked by Steve Sailer

It's worth noting that schizophrenia, with the correct medication, has a roughly 10% to 30% full recovery rate. (Full recovery as in: can hold a good professional job, normal relationships, married, no outward symptoms.) And up to 50% social recovery rate (can hold a minimum wage job, maybe a little "odd" but not socially disruptive.) Additionally, roughly 70-80% of schizophrenics have a positive response to medication, showing significant reduction of symptoms. If I could talk to parents of young people who have shown their first schizophrenia symptoms, I'd like to tell them that, with the correct treatment and a bit of luck, there is hope.

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Aug 4Liked by Steve Sailer

And early intervention is super important. Turns out psychosis is quite bad for the brain, and each episode lowers the person’s baseline.

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"with the correct medication"

That little qualification actually rules out the majority of schizophrenia cases.

No recovery? It must not have been the "correct medication"!

One can rinse and repeat in tautologically security.

In reality, the vast majority of schizophrenia cases never recover. This is a major component of the swelling "homeless" population. Many of them, schizophrenic, could have homes, but they don't stay in them.

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The drugs have some affect on the symptoms. But the drugs also have serious side effects. Likely why people don’t stay on them. And end up on the streets.

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Perhaps the weather? Blacks evolved to live in hotter and sunnier places. My experience living in Newcastle during winter was depressing.

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He looks hydrocephalic. Ain’t no way a black has enough brain to fill a cranium that size!

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I can't help but think it has to be due to the much higher marijuana use in the black community - and marijuana has a well documented link to schizophrenia. I have two sons and they would let me know every now and then who was caught in the high school bathroom with what. As well as before football practice. Terribly unscientific, I know. My youngest son went to two high schools - and it was the same observation. Because it was overwhelmingly black students using marijuana, the school bathrooms weren't monitored like they should have been. Administration just looked the other way. If they DID get caught... it was because it was so blatant.

We've changed laws to accommodate the black community on marijana, but it is changing nothing. It is bringing the rest of society down.

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Aug 4Liked by Steve Sailer

"much higher marijuana use in the black community"

That's true, but it still might not be proof of an environmental cause. It could be that incipient schizos seek out marijuana.

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Nowadays when anything like this happens, I think, "Let's see his toxicology report."

That doesn't make him any less evil, but I still want to see it.

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I’ve heard that marijuana causes schizophrenics to become floridly psychotic.

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Aug 4Liked by Steve Sailer

Any follow-up studies performed since 2008?

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Any studies that might lead to, uh, unfortunate conclusions are now effectively banned.

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Aug 4Liked by Steve Sailer

I lived in the UK for 9 years and I don’t recall my NHS GP formally collecting race data. It certainly remains a normally-collected piece of data here in the States.

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Aug 4Liked by Steve Sailer

There's a very interesting documentary called "Six Schizophrenic Brothers" on HBO. It appears to be genetic. Anyone can see that there are high rates of schizophrenia in the black population overall. I live in NYC where -- and this is inarguably unfortunate and tragic -- dodging black schizophrenics is a contact sport. Nearly every "anti-Asian hate crime" erroneously and abstractly attributed to "white supremacy" was at the hands of a schizophrenic black person, most notably the woman who leapt from a subway bench to push an Asian woman to her death on the subway tracks.

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Aug 4Liked by Steve Sailer

Schizophrenia may present differently in different races. In white people, social difficulty and social withdrawal are common, and often the earliest signs.

OTOH, I have read a number of stories about schizophrenic black men killed by police, and the men have had girlfriends and children.

Possibly they were misdiagnosed, might have been bipolar. Possibly they began having children before the disease appeared. Having children early might perpetuate the predisposing genes in a population.

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So nine times more likely to be schizophrenic and ten times more likely to commit murder? Expensive imports for sure.

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