Read some of the comments at the review.
Most common reaction seemed to be fear that real differences would be found, so let’s not do the research in the first place.
As if resolutely ignoring the facts will change them.
BTW, the author of this review, Charles Murray, wrote The Bell Curve 20 years ago and was crucified by liberals for doing so. The whole point of that book was to discuss differences in intelligence (defined as IQ in the book) and how modern life has less and less place for those with lower IQs. With the purpose of suggesting changes that might stop or slow their gradual explusion from any valued role in society. Their prescience has been eminently demonstrated since, as the changes they predicted are happening faster and faster. (Though nobody wants to talk about them except by means of euphemisms such as “income inequality.”)
But the book was trashed because it didn’t shy away from the implications of lower IQ among certain ethnic groups, so it was denounced universally as “racist.”
“Read some of the comments at the review.
Most common reaction seemed to be fear that real differences would be found, so let’s not do the research in the first place.”
This is the supreme irony: Liberalism was born as a rebellion against scripture and dogma, in favor of the Fearless Pursuit of Truth for the Betterment of Mankind (TM).
Now it is increasingly appearent that Liberalism has put that ambition aside, and is just sliding into becoming dogma without the benefit of metaphysical justification (indeed, without any philosophical justification whatsoever once the whole “truth” thing has been pulled out from under it...).
Wad’s “Before the Dawn” was generally good for the time it was written. A fair amount has changed even in the last couple of years. I’ve just pre ordered this book and will see. To me, there is always the danger of working with too large a group so the generalizations don’t really mean anything. In Africa, you see great variations physically between the San, Bantu and Ethiopian for instance. The same is true for all racial groups.