A couple of days ago, the Irish conservative journal The Burkean published an essay by its editor Michael O’Dwyer Connolly about the failure of the Convergence Hypothesis:

It is Sub-Saharan Africa that is the real worry for believers in convergence. Despite it being over half a century since European administrations vacated the continent, not only has it not improved, much of the continent is now poorer (in terms of quality of life, not GDP) than ever before. … Despite this, the institutions argument is a jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces. It requires an understanding of human genetic diversity to make sense on a global scale (for example, why can’t certain countries create good institutions?). This theory argues that a nation’s development potential is constrained by the basic psychological makeup of the population. The most important traits in this regard are intelligence and social trust. Intelligence strongly correlates with many important factors like innovation and self-control. High intelligence means you can be a world-leader in cognitively-demanding fields. Sweden, for example, can produce fighter jets despite having only nine million people. Low intelligence means you have more non-functional people. These people might not be able to hold a job (especially in developed economies), they might be erratic or violent, and your society will often have to babysit them at great cost to everyone else.

Reasonably anodyne, patently commonsense – even if the article borrows perhaps a bit too generously from Guillaume Durocher’s The Convergence Hoax. (Though he’s cool with it).

Though you wouldn’t guess from the storm it unleashed on Irish Twitter, and not just amongst the usual SJWs:

.@ArtimusFoul cited RationalWiki article about me

I noted it was written by this (literal Atlantis conspiracy theorist) https://t.co/7hvL2tmiv8

Asked if I considered myself "anti-semitic racist far-right conspiracy theorist".

I replied thus.

He blocked. https://t.co/bVwD6FB2ER pic.twitter.com/DpaX0YmSFc — «««Апат🦠lу "Papa Nurgle Respecter" Каrliп»»» (@akarlin88) February 10, 2019

These Irish SJWs really are a thin-skinned lot. Can't even answer a simple question. pic.twitter.com/IfsPncfIoj — «««Апат🦠lу "Papa Nurgle Respecter" Каrliп»»» (@akarlin88) February 11, 2019

… but the Irish cuckservatives as well:

This is a disappointing piece that years from now you'll regret & I expect will understand was erroneous. I'm 50 years old & have been around the block a few times. My suggestion is you think about deleting it as soon as you can & chalk it up to experience. — Declan Ganley (@declanganley) February 10, 2019

This is an utterly despicable article. No website that publishes this kind of garbage represents any “centre right” that I recognise. You insult and abuse the name of Burke. https://t.co/ab7J8ea0bD — John McGuirk (@john_mcguirk) February 10, 2019

The students who ran @TheBurkeanIE made the mistake of thinking white nationalists were just a quirky weird part of the movement and it was better to accomdate and tame them. A year later it's publishing editorials about IQ levels in Africa. They destroy everything they touch. — John McGuirk (@john_mcguirk) February 10, 2019

Hey John, guess what. You lost your “culture war.” Your countrymen voted overwhelmingly to legalize abortion, Irish millennials couldn’t care less for Christianity, and your country is ruled by a gay Indian.

Perhaps it’s time to get your useless 34 year old boomer ass out of the way and let people who refuse to cuck have a go at salvaging the situation.

But TBH, the entire affair is certainly quite depressing.

Irish /pol/ was decidedly outnumbered by the SJWs/cuckservatives in the comments, which bodes ill for any immediate prospects of halting Ireland’s demographic replacement, which is advancing with unprecedented rapidity (current plans call for one million immigrants by 2040 on top of a population of less than 5 million). Imagine preserving your culture over centuries of British religious persecution, famines, Anglicization – then throwing it all away in the blink of an eye just to participate in the multiculti cargo cult and get back at a few pedo priests.