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IQ, Race, Freedom & Oppression
Apparently Saletan wants to be an egalitarian in an age of genetic differences. He wants to be a truthful scientist in an age of dogmatic coercion. He wants self-respect and integrity, but he doesn’t want to suffer for living according to his values. Big dilemma. However, Saletan has managed to delicately sidestep the main issue, which is not ...
Posted to Human Nature by Pollynkorect on November 9, 2008
Re: The need for detail
He might have been a better writer to have replaced ''those Nigerian babies'' with ''these babies'' because after all 5% of the babies of European descent lack the gene(s) too. Thanks for reminding us of the context of Saletan’s quote. Of course there is a lot more to it than that. Firstly: It is not 5% of all babies of European descent ...
Posted to Human Nature by brerlou on November 30, 2007
Rational Racism
Perhaps Saletan is here founding a new movement (at least a new movement to give an old movement a respectable public face): Rational Racism. I suspect that what resonates as most existentially aggravating about thinking such as Saletan displays here, to those of us it rubs wrong, lies below the threshold of any reified logic: we intuit a ...
Posted to Human Nature by mcdonald on November 26, 2007