# SDMB Bigoted Asshole Omnibus Thread

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [May 29, 2012, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489 "2012-05-29T22:59:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-bigoted-asshole-omnibus-thread/623489/315 "2012-06-01T13:17:38Z")

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> [@Gyrate](#):
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> When the waves of Irish immigrants came over to the US in the late nineteenth century you saw the same accusations aimed at them: they were lazy, stupid drunken criminals. Now they get a party in their honor every year.

Well, by **NDD** ’s theory that just proves that the Irish evolved really really sooper dooper fast:

> [@Race differences in average IQ are largely genetic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/race-differences-in-average-iq-are-largely-genetic/623236/199):
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> In The Jews among the Greeks and Romans: a Diasporan Source Book Margaret H. Williams demonstrated that during the Roman Empire Jews were not considered to be of superior intelligence. The superiority of the Ashkenazim evolved quickly.

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