Black Woman Power & the Dunning-Kruger Effect

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Jasmine Crockett

I went home one day and I said, ‘Why are conservatives bad, Mommy?’ , because I thought we were supposed to conserve! Ha ha ha! I couldn’t reconcile it. Now I can! Ha ha ha!
—Kamala Harris

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A recent post on The Unz Review, “Jasmine Crockett for the Democratic Nomination,” by Gregory Hood, led me to an epiphany of sorts. Whites are routinely scolded by the propaganda arm of the regime because black people are not as healthy as white people. Black Americans suffer disproportionately compared to whites from high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, obesity and other health-related problems – the cause of which is “racism,” in case you forgot. What other things, however, do black people seem unduly to suffer from that never get mentioned? Thus, the epiphany: black women, particularly, appear to be highly vulnerable to a cognitive limitation known as the Dunning-Kruger effect (DKE). It presents in those who precipitously ascend to high positions of power and authority, behavior marked by grandiosity, self-righteousness and psychological projection. It’s not a pretty picture.

The Dunning–Kruger effect

is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities…. [It] applies mainly to people with low skill in a specific area trying to evaluate their competence within this area. The systematic error concerns their tendency to greatly overestimate their competence, i. e. to see themselves as more skilled than they are.

U.S. House Representative Crockett is the DKE, dare I say it, “in spades.” Anyone who has paid the slightest attention to her “low skill” performance as a Texas congress woman would conclude: (a) her intelligence level does not begin to qualify her to function at the level of a legislator of any kind; (b) she is deludedly (stupidly?) unaware of her cognitive shortcomings, and (c) she displays the lack of impulse control and self-awareness of a permanent adolescent who makes herself so obnoxious, so nasty, no one can stand to around her.

As evidence, these three video clips from X. The first in which she boasts, with no evidence offered, of the superiority of her “intellect” over Marjorie Taylor Green’s. The second is an astonishing, out-of-control, hysterical rant during a session of Congress that was acutely embarrassing even to the Democrats. The third in which she claims that “80% of the most violent criminals are white supremacists.”

[DKE] lends itself to a simple explanation of the effect: incompetence often includes being unable to tell the difference between competence and incompetence. For this reason, it is difficult for the incompetent to recognize their incompetence. This is sometimes termed the ‘dual-burden’ account, since low performers are affected by two burdens: they lack a skill and they are unaware of this deficiency. [italics added]

One suspects that Jasmine has been carrying that “dual burden” for a long time. She is invincibly “unaware of her [glaring] deficiency,” but she is far from unique as a black woman who is, or recently was, in a high position for which she is utterly lacking in the “skill” necessary for minimal, acceptable performance, and impervious to the reality of its absence.

Others immediately jump to mind.

Claudine Gay

Claudine Gay is the former president of Harvard University. Her academic-scholarly skill set was suddenly discovered to be non-existent after billionaire Harvard donors determined that she was no longer useful to them as a token to prove that black women were smarter and more deserving of prestige jobs than white men. The discovery and her “outing” as incompetent and unqualified was precipitated by events of 10/7 in Gaza and her failure to be quick enough to recognize that “free speech” is an exclusive franchise owned and run by wealthy Jews. Somebody actually went back and read Claudine’s CV and yikes! It was so thin that her appointment as Harvard President was conclusive evidence that affirmative action was a very bad idea from the start.

Then there is Fani Willis. Selected by Joe Biden, whose discernment of black lady talent speaks for itself, to bring down the Orange Man. The 53-year-old Fulton County District Attorney managed to turn herself into a national joke with her lack of courtroom decorum and her tawdry affair with the special prosecutor she hired to assist her in the trial. When she showed up for her hearing on prosecutorial misconduct some observers noticed that she had her dress on backwards.

[A]pparently Fani Willis went to this court appearance with her dress on backwards… Although her staggering testimony, which saw her firing back against the ‘extremely offensive’ claims, left people stunned, many eyes were on her ‘embarrassing’ ensemble error, which prompted viewers to ridicule the attorney’s capabilities, with some joking that ‘she can’t even dress herself.’

Finally, the tacky carnival show of national politics brings us to the former star attraction: the beardless black lady DKE, who, with no discernible capacity for command or chiefdom, was a heartbeat away from being the Commander and Chief. This “new America” was turning into a quite disturbing place because the guy who was Commander and Chief at times didn’t seem to know it. Shortly after she assumed the office of VP, it became comically obvious that her utter incompetence included “being unable to tell the difference between competence and incompetence.” For four years, her “skill set” for high office had been on public display. However, no one could say what it was. So when Biden’s 50 hp cognitive engine threw a rod during his debate last year with Trump, the camarilla shrugged their shoulders and said: “Hey, why not let her be President? What harm could it do?”

The American voters, “being burdened by what she had been,” unburdened themselves with their verdict on her competence on November 5, 2024. Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”

Thus, the four years of Kamala Harris as Vice President. Incapable of completing a coherent sentence, unsuccessfully posing as a serious person qualified to lead, she was a trend-setter for DKE black women failing upwards. How did this happen?

The short answer is Joe Biden. His own fifty-year career proved that severe DKE was no obstacle to rising to the top of the Swamp. To rescue his failing 2020 Presidential primary campaign, he colluded with Barack Obama, a DKE prodigy – to arm twist his opponents out of the race – and with Jim Clayburn to turn out black voters for Joe Biden in the southern state Democrat primaries. In exchange, he agreed to choose a black woman as his VP running mate. Kamala Harris, apparently was “the best” he could find.

In office, in addition to his appointment of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court, Biden appointed 40 black women as Federal Judges.

[Biden’s] black judicial appointments, experts say, are also important because they may play a crucial role in serving as a judicial check on the second presidency of Trump, who has vowed to dismantle government agencies such as the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division — a move that is likely to face a stiff legal challenge.

What “experts” don’t say is that Biden did everything he could in his four years to institutionalize the Obama-Biden goal for the dismantlement of white America, including a barrage of racially motivated judicial appointees who would consistently rule to “legally” advance the dismantlement.

According to the article cited above,

Having the Black woman’s experience on the federal bench is ‘extremely important’ because ‘there is a different kind of voice that can come from the Black female from the bench,’ said Delores Jones-Brown, a professor emeritus at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York who studies judicial appointments.

Were Jones-Brown pressed to explain what this “different kind of voice” might be, I suspect it would be the voice of “the oppressed” (perched at the top of the victim pyramid), which means the other “voices” are those of the oppressor. And we know who those belong to. Which also means that the “black woman’s experience on the federal bench is ‘extremely important’” because it translates into a weapon to wield against the oppressor. That’s the point, comrades. To paraphrase Karl Marx, whose philosophy provides the inspiration for this view of law as a battle between oppressor and oppressed, “the expropriators are expropriated.” To be explicit about where this “diversity” goal is moving: the intent is to turn us, the oppressors, into the oppressed, the “expropriated.” So, speaking only for myself, and faced with this choice: I prefer to remain in the oppressor class, and vigorously resist the importation of large numbers of the enemy into positions of power who threaten to turn my wife, children, grandchildren, friends and me into members of the class of the newly oppressed. We can see how this has worked out in Zimbabwe and South Africa.

The longer answer to the above question is that American civil rights movement beginning in the 1950s, with its landmark 1960s body of civil rights legislation, increasingly drove American politics to the left with its cardinal religious dogma – equality. The growing embrace of that dogma culminated in the pretend Presidency of Joe Biden, that Presidency set up by Barack Obama, a man who assumed the Office with a ballyhooed “skill set” that proved to be only useful for getting him elected.

Biden pretended to be President and the people he gathered around him pretended to be serving the American people, pretended to be “saving democracy,” and pretended that skill and competence was equally distributed across the “diverse” American demographic. The “celebrating” (enforcing) “diversity” fest that has been underway for decades meant that skill and competency as primary qualifications for professional employment, advancement and achievement had to be eliminated. The equality dogma affirms that any disparities we find in them must be due to “racism.”

Which takes us back to the Dunning-Kruger effect.

When I was a boy, I was convinced that I possessed a high level of athletic skill. But I began to notice that I was among the last to be chosen when the gang split into teams for the sandlot games. At first, I thought my friends failed to recognize my superior talent. Finally, reality bit back and painfully forced me out of my pretend world.

In the pretend world of liberal democracy, where the dogma of equality is ruthlessly enforced, the incompetent experience no pain because noticing it carries the sigma of bigotry for the noticer. No one dares to push back against the severely DKE-impaired, which is why the likes of Kamala Harris, Jasmine Crockett and Claudine Gay can be plucked from the bottom rungs, thrust upon us and encouraged to wreck things that used to work. Only a counter-revolution will save us from these pretenders.