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State 07-26-2011 07:22 AM
Socialism Fails. Case Study: Chinese Basketball
 
I'm astonished to learn this for the first time. The 7'6" basketball player from China who has just retired from the NBA, Yao Ming, is essentially a product of a eugenics program.

Chinese authorities kept getting Ming's 6'7" father and 6'3" mother together on dates, implying, We need your prospective tall child for the team.

It worked, obviously, in Yao Ming's case.

However, the Chinese, top-down (pun intended?) fixation on height has given them the tallest of teams--the average height is 6'9"--but not success.

I read somewhere the average NBA team averages 6'7". The Chinese state sports bureaucrats think they know what's best, like a socialist planner in the economy, but they don't.

Letting the team form together on its own, laissez faire style, is likely to field a more competitive team. Not to say China will ever be a powerhouse in the sport. They are pretty short over there. Am I allowed to mention that obvious difference?

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Harry Boy 07-26-2011 07:34 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by State (Post 2597686)
I'm astonished to learn this for the first time. The 7'6" basketball player from China who has just retired from the NBA, Yao Ming, is essentially a product of a eugenics program.

Chinese authorities kept getting Ming's 6'7" father and 6'3" mother together on dates, implying, We need your prospective tall child for the team.

It worked, obviously, in Yao Ming's case.

However, the Chinese, top-down (pun intended?) fixation on height has given them the tallest of teams--the average height is 6'9"--but not success.

I read somewhere the average NBA team averages 6'7". The Chinese state sports bureaucrats think they know what's best, like a socialist planner in the economy, but they don't.

Letting the team form together on its own, laissez faire style, is likely to field a more competitive team. Not to say China will ever be a powerhouse in the sport. They are pretty short over there. Am I allowed to mention that obvious difference?

VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Why the Chinese aren’t good at basketball
"Short Chinese" might be some trouble over this one, the loons despise Reality, but maybe not, the Chinese don't seem to be on their "protected spieces list".............:confused:

Mrs.PatsFanInVa 07-26-2011 07:44 AM
Re: Socialism Fails. Case Study: Chinese Basketball
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by State (Post 2597686)
Am I allowed to mention that obvious difference?
You're allowed to mention anything you want.

However, do be aware that most of what you mention fails to attract the attention of those who hunger for knowledge or thirst for truth - rather it only serves to reaffirm their original assessment of your motives and your heart.

State 07-26-2011 07:46 AM
Nam
 
NAM=non-Asian minority

Get conversant with it, folks.

Half Sigma: NAM = non-Asian minority
Quote:
New readers keep asking what the word NAM means, because it's thrown around here quite frequently, but when you Google it, nothing comes up.

So in order to correct this problem, I am devoting a post to the word.

NAM is an acronym for "non-Asian minority," and it's a significant distinction from just "minority" because Asians (including Indians) don't cause any social problems (except to make upper-middle-class white parents fret that their children's math classes are too hard because the Asian students are ruining the curve).
I first learned of useful acronym reading Steve Sailer's blog.

State 07-26-2011 07:51 AM
Re: Socialism Fails. Case Study: Chinese Basketball
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs.PatsFanInVa (Post 2597698)
You're allowed to mention anything you want.

However, do be aware that most of what you mention fails to attract the attention of those who hunger for knowledge or thirst for truth - rather it only serves to reaffirm their original assessment of your motives and your heart.
Let the data speak.

Don't attack people for their motives which, anyway, can rarely be determined with accuracy or precision.

Your approach smacks of the ad hominem fallacy, showing you don't have anything more to say than I must have bad motives or a heart filled with hate to dredge up the mountains of facts--see the Star Parker thread for examples--that I have.

Essentially, I've won the argument. At least it seems so to me until people respond using data.

Mrs.PatsFanInVa 07-26-2011 07:57 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by State (Post 2597703)
Your approach smacks of the ad hominem fallacy,
And here I thought we had already established our close and clever relationship back when you started calling me "Darling," and asking me to dance.

State 07-26-2011 08:09 AM
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I haven't forgotten.

The Brandon Five 07-26-2011 09:42 AM
Re: Socialism Fails. Case Study: Chinese Basketball
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by State (Post 2597686)
However, the Chinese, top-down (pun intended?) fixation on height has given them the tallest of teams--the average height is 6'9"--but not success.

Quote:
Originally Posted by State (Post 2597686)
Letting the team form together on its own, laissez faire style, is likely to field a more competitive team. Not to say China will ever be a powerhouse in the sport. They are pretty short over there.
Umm, apparently they aren't short of tall people, since there team is taller? :confused:

Quote:
Am I allowed to mention that obvious difference?
That basketball was invented and is more popular here?

chicowalker 07-26-2011 09:50 AM
Re: Socialism Fails. Case Study: Chinese Basketball
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by State (Post 2597686)
...However, the Chinese, top-down (pun intended?) fixation on height has given them the tallest of teams--the average height is 6'9"--but not success.

I read somewhere the average NBA team averages 6'7". The Chinese state sports bureaucrats think they know what's best, like a socialist planner in the economy, but they don't....
Why, because their average height is 6'9" instead of the NBA's 6'7"?


Quote:
Originally Posted by State (Post 2597686)
...Letting the team form together on its own, laissez faire style, is likely to field a more competitive team. ...
Why is that likely?

All countries have youth sports programs, so the idea of a pure "laissez faire" approach is generally unheard of.


Quote:
Originally Posted by State (Post 2597686)
...Not to say China will ever be a powerhouse in the sport. They are pretty short over there. ...
define powerhouse

Harry Boy 07-26-2011 10:31 AM
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