“Even a lot of “race realists””…? You mean sometimes racists get it wrong? And this is supposed to be surprising enough to warrant an “even”?
“Average” is meaningless in this context, but otherwise this statement matches my understanding of the science. Further, two different black people could easily be as or more different genetically than one of them is to a Norwegian or Chinese person. So there are black African people who are more closely related to Europeans and Asians than to other far-flung black African people.
And yet you’re lumping black Africans as a separate group, which is contrary to the science. It’s also contrary to common sense. If Africans expanded throughout Africa, separating into various groups, and one or more of those various groups left Africa and their descendants settled Europe and Asia, then some of those groups still in Africa could still be more closely related to their descendants in Europe and Asia than to other groups that didn’t have anyone leave Africa.
This is not based on science, and just sounds like trying to find a nicer way to say black people are inferior. What you think has happened here is based on crap science and white supremacism. Full stop. We don’t have environments in which black and white people are treated equally by society, and therefore we don’t have environments in which we can reasonably compare test scores between the two groups. Further, the only study that actually tried to measure this in populations which could be compared (i.e. low income black people in America to low income black people in America), African ancestry had no correlation to lower test scores. The Flynn effect, showing that the black-white gap is less than various white-white gaps that have existed over time and space, further cements the unreasonableness of making such conclusions at this time.
The science shows that what you think happened is false, or at the very least is not at all supported by the evidence, and directly contradictory to some key parts of it.
Lead in the environment might be involved, but I’ve seen no such studies that show that black people “have a greater sensitivity to its effects”, and this sounds like ass-derived data.
Here’s the phantom spectre of PC. It doesn’t exist, at least not in this way. PC is not a barrier to good science. Good science is a barrier to crap science like Murray, and to massive egos like Harris who are unable to get past criticism. I’ve read plenty of studies that have suggested parenting and culture could be related to test scores, and they weren’t scoured from the Earth by PC forces.
We don’t have to wonder what would happen if most of America believed that black people were intellectually inferior. This was the norm for most of our history. And it didn’t go well for black people. Further, when paternalists were in charge (such as various colonial enterprises), things still went terribly for the non-white people. When people think of others as inferior, people generally treat them like they’re inferior. There’s no way to avoid this. Good intentions don’t hold back basic human psychology. Rely on good science, not racialist bullshit.
Pinker’s another smart guy, blinded by ego and incapable of reasonably evaluating criticism against him. Just like Harris, he’s said some dumb things that weren’t based on good science, but rather their own silly biases. And they’re incapable of seeing that as a possibility – no, they are brilliant, it’s impossible that they might be influenced by the biases of society… any criticism against them must be wrong, and they therefore must band together against PC forces.
It’s bullshit. Good science will prevail, as it always does, and good science is on the other side of your conclusions about race and intelligence. It’s not a conspiracy. The slavery-justifiers were just wrong, and made it all up. So are their “race-realist” (actually white supremacist) intellectual descendants. And smart people like Harris, Pinker, and you, really can be influenced by bigotry in society without realizing it.