Carl On Murray On Hughes('s Podcast)

I agree with Carl, and said so many times in a bunch of posts from years ago that I'm too lazy to look up. 

I've said this to the colleagues with whom I can have rational discussions, as well.

We used to have a kind of gentlemen's agreement: we'd keep doing some affirmative action, and not mention IQ differences between groups, and just muddle on through. 

But the left has now openly adopted the assumption that the only possible explanation of group differences is oppression. Patently absurd and easily refuted--but, then, the left doesn't care about evidence and truth. This assumption is part of what drives their "equity" / force-equal-outcome agenda. 

The progressive left is, of course, locked in doublethink. To some extent they actually believe their own bullshit--but willful suppression of cognitive dissonance...and flat-out lying...are there to take up the slack. 

Under these conditions, to hold up our end of the gentlemen's agreement aforementioned is tantamount to suicide--and will lead to the destruction of the nation. 

Now we have no real alternative to discussing "the science"--though, in this case: the actual science science.

Hughes is great, but he's wrong and Carl is right about discussing race and IQ: it's probably inevitable now, and was probably inevitable all along. And it's unlikely to be disastrous. Group differences are mere average differences. And a higher IQ doesn't make you a better person. I have a higher IQ than most people--and look at what a train wreck I am... 

Anyway. I've discussed this in detail long ago. In fact, not to blow my own horn, but I was way, way ahead of a whole lotta contemporary discussions of this stuff. 

Anyway. Even if the topic of group IQ differences was eternally avoidable before the Great Awokening Unhingening, it's not avoidable anymore.

Which is why Charles Murray's new book is so important, incidentally.