Race Talk¶
Why enter into the edgy territory of race and IQ discussion, asks John McWhorter, even if the most distressingly inegalitarian conclusions turn out to be true? “What, precisely, would we gain from discussing this particular issue?”
Robert Verbruggen gets to the critical response, eventually. The topic has been made inescapable because the left is ever-increasingly race-obsessed and “continue[s] to treat racial gaps as a moral emergency” based on a specific, positively egalitarian, and extremely implausible universal-anthropological theory. Challenging that is the only way to moderate the social self-flagellation. (So however uncomfortable this ‘conversation’ becomes, it isn’t going to stop.)
More here (via), hitting maximum relevance about 40 minutes in.
ADDED:
.@JohnHMcWhorter asks why discuss IQ & race. Because schools spend billions trying to equalize academic achievement? https://t.co/8C5yMCmkGu https://t.co/us8ZEC4c6f
— EdReal (@Ed_Realist) July 5, 2017
ADDED: “Does the possibility [sic] that [East] Asians are smarter than they are reduce whites to desperation and misery?” — This needs to be noted more often.