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To: BenLurkin

I’m taking from your post that you think discussion about differences between races translates into calls for elimination of the races which are deemed ‘lessor’.

Please correct me if I took the wrong meaning.

Assuming I’m correct, how would you describe ‘The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life’, which is a scientific analysis of the differing intelligence levels between races?


10 posted on 05/10/2014 1:01:55 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Want to keep your doctor? Remove your Democrat Senator.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

It certainly seems to be a popular work among some who wish to divide Americans on the basis of skin color.


14 posted on 05/10/2014 1:05:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Balding_Eagle
‘The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life’, which is a scientific analysis of the differing intelligence levels between races?

Point of order.

Recently read this book. That is NOT what it is about.

It very calmly and logically discusses the impact of intelligence on class structure in America.

It does not shy away from from noting the effect of differential IQ between racial groups, but that is by no means the focus of the book.

In fact, it shows very clearly that those white people of intelligence similar to the majority of black Americans have very similar life outcomes. IOW, race as such makes little difference in their lives.

This book was intended as a plea for changes in policy to make a place in society for those of less than average intelligence, who are increasingly excluded. Which of course has been utterly ignored.

Liberals turned it into some sort of a racialist white supremacist book, which it absolutely, positively was not. There's no need for us to join them in this slander.

35 posted on 05/10/2014 1:49:26 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Balding_Eagle

“discussion about differences between races translates into calls for elimination of the races which are deemed ‘lessor’.”

Stealing the ideas of Planned Parenthood’s founder are ya ????/sarc


192 posted on 05/11/2014 7:50:55 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory tooooo long)
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