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Lee Kuan Yew was a realist on IQ, heritability, race differences, and dysgenics.
Was he the only prominent one who didn't get cancelled or fired?
E.g a 1983 speech quoting up-to-date findings from behavior genetics. (Not common in political speeches!)
Was he the only prominent one who didn't get cancelled or fired?
E.g a 1983 speech quoting up-to-date findings from behavior genetics. (Not common in political speeches!)
He was aware of the importance of a nation's smart fraction or cognitive elite.
He once said the fate of Singapore rests with "no more than 5 per cent" who were "more than ordinarily endowed physically and mentally".
Singapore schools have rigorous selection and streaming.
He once said the fate of Singapore rests with "no more than 5 per cent" who were "more than ordinarily endowed physically and mentally".
Singapore schools have rigorous selection and streaming.
LKY recognized group differences: "I have said this on many a previous occasion: that had the mix in Singapore been different, had it been 75% Indians, 15% Malays and the rest Chinese, it would not have worked."
In 1977, Singapore's fertility rate fell below replacement. In a 1983 National Day speech “Talent for the Future” LKY pointed out that women with degrees had lower fertility than those without and drew attention to he dysgenic consequences of this:
In the 80s, the government tried various incentives. A S$10,000 payment for uneducated women with two children to be sterilized (which was soon abandoned). Tax breaks for graduate mothers. Men favored for admission to university, because male graduates became fathers.
In that 1983 speech, LKY publically expressed regret that he had in the 1960s followed the "enlightened" progressive consensus that women should have equal opportunities in education and employment.
Based Mr. Lee publically spoke in favor of polygyny on eugenic grounds
In 1993, Lee wrote an article for The Economist forecasting the state of the world in the 21st century. He predicted a prosperous East Asian industrial belt consisting of Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and coastal China ...
... while South and South East Asia (except for Singapore) languished by comparison.
This, he said, was based "on a people's culture, heredity and organisational strengths."
Quite a good prediction guided by his realism on group differences.
This, he said, was based "on a people's culture, heredity and organisational strengths."
Quite a good prediction guided by his realism on group differences.
LKY: "If you don't include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society... So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That's a problem."
In the 90s, after The Bell Curve became famous, he called it "a fact of life".
He opposed the American approach of "hiding the truth".
"Not to come to terms with this is to deceive yourself"
He opposed the American approach of "hiding the truth".
"Not to come to terms with this is to deceive yourself"
Already in the 90s, he anticipated that American obfuscation and denial of racial IQ differences would lead to more and more demands for engineered equalization.
A pretty good forecast of where we are with wokeism.
A pretty good forecast of where we are with wokeism.
So, congratulations to Lee Kuan Yew, a man who led his country to outstanding success, and the only prominent public figure of the last few decades to have publically stated some HBD truths!
