Move mclame to the front of the line.
A lot of what we write off as bad genetics is bad environment.
There are several studies that found the highest ROI in improving school performance and attendance in the developing world is DEWORMING. When you have bouts of digestive illness, when weakened by anemia and malnutrition from parasites, it is hard to go to school or do well there. Little pills once a month led to far better health and educational outcomes.
We know that malnutrition stunts brain growth. Whether it is overall lack of calories, lack of iodine, insufficient protein, all of this hinders brain growth. While the absolute numbers and percentage of the population that is starving/hungry is declining, it is still an issue. Malnutrition through nutritional deficits are still a serious problem.
When you’re constantly fighting off malaria, you might live, but it certainly takes resources from brain development.
All in all, malnutrition, parasites and illness thus shave 10-30 IQ points off kids in the developing world.
We’re so focused on genetics and eugenics, we’re ignoring the possibility that we could raise IQs in those parts of the world by 1-2 standard deviations through better nutrition and healthcare.
Much of what we attribute to racism is thus explained by poverty and lack of development. The same issues explained why poor rural whites have historically been considered far less intelligent than their suburban and urban counterparts.
Don’t blame race or “poor breeding” for what could actually be treated/cured.
After hearing for many, many years that the only reason Socialism fails is because the wrong Communists are in charge, it is refreshing to see that the only reason Eugenics failed is because the wrong Nazi’s were in charge. The new Nazi’s will do better.
Race and IQ are inextricably linked and anyone who thinks otherwise is in flat-out denial of physical reality.
Hillary Clinton said she was honored to receive the Margaret Sanger Award, named for the eugenist who considered Blacks as society’s “weeds.”
We have our taboos, just like other societies.
One of the taboos promoted by the current left, is that their is no difference whatsoever between races or groups of people.
That is clearly false, or we would not be able to differentiate races or groups of people.
Thomas Sowell wrote a great book on this.