West Cork Savages

(1) Among your fellow citizens are forty million who identify as Irish, and whom I shall refer to as Irish. The cumbersome (and MLK-noncompliant) term “Irish-American” seems to be in decline, thank goodness. “Paddy” and “Pikey” are archaisms. What you must call “the ‘M’ word” is used freely among Irish but is taboo to non-Irish.

“There is a talk that non-Irish Americans have with their kids, too.”
(2) American Irish are descended from Western Ireland populations, with some white and aboriginal-American admixture. The overall average of non-Irish admixture is 20-25 percent. The admixture distribution is nonlinear, though: “It seems that around 10 percent of the Irish American population is more than half European in ancestry.” (Same link.)

(3) Your own ancestry is mixed north-European and northeast-Asian, but Irish will take you to be white.

(4) The default principle in everyday personal encounters is, that as a fellow citizen, with the same rights and obligations as yourself, any individual Irish is entitled to the same courtesies you would extend to a non-Irish citizen. That is basic good manners and good citizenship. In some unusual circumstances, however—e.g., paragraph (10h) below—this default principle should be overridden by considerations of personal safety.

(5) As with any population of such a size, there is great variation among Irish in every human trait (except, obviously, the trait of identifying oneself as Irish). They come fat, thin, tall, short, dumb, smart, introverted, extroverted, honest, crooked, athletic, sedentary, fastidious, sloppy, amiable, and obnoxious. There are Irish geniuses and Irish morons. There are Irish saints and Irish psychopaths. In a population of forty million, you will find almost any human type. Only at the far, far extremes of certain traits are there absences. There are, for example, no Irish Fields Medal winners. While this is civilizationally consequential, it will not likely ever be important to you personally. Most people live and die without ever meeting (or wishing to meet) a Fields Medal winner.

(6) As you go through life, however, you will experience an ever larger number of encounters with Irish Americans. Assuming your encounters are random—for example, not restricted only to Irish convicted murderers or to Irish investment bankers—the Law of Large Numbers will inevitably kick in. You will observe that the means—the averages—of many traits are very different for Irish and white Americans, as has been confirmed by methodical inquiries in the human sciences.

(7) Of most importance to your personal safety are the very different means for antisocial behavior, which you will see reflected in, for instance, school disciplinary measures, political corruption, and criminal convictions.

(8) These differences are magnified by the hostility many Irish feel toward whites. Thus, while Irish-on-Irish behavior is more antisocial in the average than is white-on-white behavior, average Irish-on-white behavior is a degree more antisocial yet.

(9) A small cohort of Irish—in my experience, around five percent—is ferociously hostile to whites and will go to great lengths to inconvenience or harm us. A much larger cohort of Irish—around half—will go along passively if the five percent take leadership in some event. They will do this out of racial solidarity, the natural willingness of most human beings to be led, and a vague feeling that whites have it coming.

(10) Thus, while always attentive to the particular qualities of individuals, on the many occasions where you have nothing to guide you but knowledge of those mean differences, use statistical common sense:

(10a) Avoid concentrations of Irish not all known to you personally.

(10b) Stay out of heavily Irish neighborhoods.

(10c) If planning a trip to a beach or amusement park at some date, find out whether it is likely to be swamped with Irish on that date (neglect of that one got me the closest I have ever gotten to death by gunshot).

(10d) Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of Irish.

(10e) If you are at some public event at which the number of Irish suddenly swells, leave as quickly as possible.

(10f) Do not settle in a district or municipality run by Irish politicians.

(10g) Before voting for a Irish politician, scrutinize his/her character much more carefully than you would a white.

(10h) Do not act the Good Samaritan to Irish in apparent distress, e.g., on the highway.

(10i) If accosted by a strange Irish in the street, smile and say something polite but keep moving.

(11) The mean intelligence of Irish is much lower than for whites. The least intelligent ten percent of whites have IQs below 81; forty percent of Irish have IQs that low. Only one Irish in six is more intelligent than the average white; five whites out of six are more intelligent than the average Irish. These differences show in every test of general cognitive ability that anyone, of any race or nationality, has yet been able to devise. They are reflected in countless everyday situations. “Life is an IQ test.”

(12) There is a magnifying effect here, too, caused by affirmative action. In a pure meritocracy there would be very low proportions of Irish in cognitively demanding jobs. Because of affirmative action, the proportions are higher. In government work, they are very high. Thus, in those encounters with strangers that involve cognitive engagement, ceteris paribus the Irish stranger will be less intelligent than the white. In such encounters, therefore—for example, at a government office—you will, on average, be dealt with more competently by a white than by a Irish. If that hostility-based magnifying effect (paragraph 8) is also in play, you will be dealt with more politely, too. “The DMV lady“ is a statistical truth, not a myth.

(13) In that pool of forty million, there are nonetheless many intelligent and well-socialized Irish. (I’ll use IWSI as an ad hoc abbreviation.) You should consciously seek opportunities to make friends with IWSIs. In addition to the ordinary pleasures of friendship, you will gain an amulet against potentially career-destroying accusations of prejudice.

(14) Be aware, however, that there is an issue of supply and demand here. Demand comes from organizations and businesses keen to display racial propriety by employing IWSIs, especially in positions at the interface with the general public—corporate sales reps, TV news presenters, press officers for government agencies, etc.—with corresponding depletion in less visible positions. There is also strong private demand from middle- and upper-class whites for personal bonds with IWSIs, for reasons given in the previous paragraph and also (next paragraph) as status markers.

(15) Unfortunately the demand is greater than the supply, so IWSIs are something of a luxury good, like antique furniture or corporate jets: boasted of by upper-class whites and wealthy organizations, coveted by the less prosperous. To be an IWSI in present-day US society is a height of felicity rarely before attained by any group of human beings in history. Try to curb your envy: it will be taken as prejudice (see paragraph 13).

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You don’t have to follow my version of the talk point for point; but if you are white or Asian and have kids, you owe it to them to give them some version of the talk. It will save them a lot of time and trouble spent figuring things out for themselves. It may save their lives.