Stop Obsessing Over Race and IQ; It serves no purpose.

National Review ^ | 07/05/2017 | By John McWhorter

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I’d challenge McWhorter to explain Chicago and its murder/shooting rate without using race and IQ.

We are often taught, as the enlightened and even scientific verdict, that blacks and whites occupy radically different environments today, and that these differences can explain the entire black–white IQ gap. Under this analysis, there may be a heritable part of IQ that differs between the races, but, first, it is small, and second and more important, environmental factors override its effects. This is the main takeaway from a recent article in Vox by the IQ researchers Eric Turkheimer, Kathryn Paige Harden, and Richard Nisbett. Specifically, they point to evidence that environmental changes, such as a child’s adoption into a better-off family, can produce IQ gains as big as the average difference between blacks and whites. Poor schooling, plus the general stresses occasioned by a hardscrabble existence, depresses IQ in ways we all intuitively understand.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“The reason median IQ matters is that disparities in income and educational attainment are systematically attributed to white racism. This has to stop.”

Exactly. Not talking about this highly repeatable result allows the left to demonize whites as the cause of black problems when a perfectly reasonable explanation is available.

[DungeonMaster]

Did you see this?

[newgeezer]

Did you see this?

Wow, no, I hadn't seen this.

Here's the first thing that made me go WTF:

"... wreaking its havoc in the shutdown of Evergreen State College after a white professor refused to comply with a call for all whites to leave the campus for a day to create a fully “safe” space for other students..."

This was at a state college ... funded in part by taxpayers? Beam me up, Scotty. This place devoid of any intelligent life.