Same here. I read “The Bell Curve” cover to cover including every footnote. There was absolutely nothing racist in the book. In fact, he bent over backward to explain that just because there were tendencies within a group, that did not say anything about a particular individual who belongs to the group.
Have we now defined racism as “a fact I don’t like?” That seems to be the case. A very sad state of affairs. Once we reach this point, and we start filtering which facts are acceptable (because they fit with the politically correct narrative), we have lost science and moved into mere opinion, wishful thinking, propaganda, and politics.
The left would love nothing better than to race back to the Middle Ages and arrogate to itself the suffocating omnipresence of the Church, complete with book and heretic burnings.