Aporia Magazine's Selective Hereditarianism

Our eyes will remain open where others blink. Dogmas will not deter us. Truth is our lodestar and that the fog of ideology will not deter us. This was once how Aporia Magazine described itself - it has since changed its “About” page to the less grandiose “we publish articles on important/censored topics like intelligence, human biodiversity, evolutionary psychology, immigration, identity, crime, religion and AI.” There are many good writers at Aporia, but it’s also home to content that does not befit that heady self-description.Aporia’s basic truth is hereditarianism - the reality of inborn human differences. Why is the Netherlands richer than the Congo? Why do white Americans earn more money than blacks? Aporia is willing to “go there.” Why do people in London have higher incomes than the rest of Britain? You might think Aporia would apply the lessons of hereditarianism - London acts as a magnet for talented people from across Britain, Europe, and the entire world. No, says a 2024 Aporia article by the writer Arctotherium, the explanation is magic dirt:But since immigrants cluster in high-productivity areas, thereby driving natives away, immigrants’ incomes are artificially inflated. For instance, in Britain, ethnic minorities are overrepresented by a factor of three in London, which has 50% higher productivity than the rest of the country. Were it not for them driving white Britons out of the city, white British incomes would be higher, and ethnic minority incomes lower, than they actually are.Arctotherium doesn’t explain why London is a “high-productivity area,” nor why such areas arose. He links to other writers who discuss past cases of immigrants creating such areas, but explains that this is not a process that is happening today:German and Jewish immigrants in Eastern Europe and Huguenots in Germany both created new high-productivity centers. But in practice, all of the major high productivity centers attracting Third World immigration today were high product