{"id":87200,"date":"2024-05-25T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T05:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=87200"},"modified":"2024-05-24T08:36:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T12:36:25","slug":"qotd-dirt-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/05\/25\/qotd-dirt-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;Dirt Theory&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><em>Moving<\/em> is racist, when white people do it. When a white person chooses to relocate, the consequences are racism. To understand this, you have to understand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/new-chetty-study-finds-privileged-great-plains-white-people-still-hogging-magic-dirt-blacks-native-americans-stuck-on-tragic-dirt\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">what Steve Sailer dubs &#8220;Dirt Theory&#8221;<\/a>: Any geographical location where black or brown people live is &#8220;Tragic Dirt&#8221;, afflicted by poverty and violence, and the only solution to their problem is to move them to white-occupied &#8220;Magic Dirt&#8221;, where everybody is rich and all the kids have high test scores. At least, this is how liberals seem to believe the world works, and have made &#8220;Dirt Theory&#8221; the basis of their attitude on such issues as immigration. In their disordered minds, people like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raj_Chetty\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard Professor Raj Chetty<\/a> believe that analysis of geographic data about poverty, crime, etc., will yield insights about the causes of these phenomena \u2014 <em>places<\/em> matter more than <em>people<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Stacey McCain, <a href=\"https:\/\/theothermccain.com\/2024\/02\/04\/new-form-of-racism-has-been-discovered\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New Form of Racism Has Been Discovered&#8221;, <em>The Other McCain<\/em><\/a>, 2024-02-04.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moving is racist, when white people do it. When a white person chooses to relocate, the consequences are racism. To understand this, you have to understand what Steve Sailer dubs &#8220;Dirt Theory&#8221;: Any geographical location where black or brown people live is &#8220;Tragic Dirt&#8221;, afflicted by poverty and violence, and the only solution to their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,41,13],"tags":[1020,99],"class_list":["post-87200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-progressives","tag-racism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-mGs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89183,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87200\/revisions\/89183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}