There is no reason to fear the race and IQ debate, so why is it supressed by the liberal mainstream media?

Question

Let me show you an extract from a brilliant article about race and IQ:

"The debate over racial differences in IQ represents perhaps the greatest scientific controversy of the past half-century. The facts are not in serious dispute: blacks score, on average, significantly lower than whites in IQ tests in the United States, Britain and beyond.

Some argue that the only plausible response is to accept that blacks are naturally less intelligent than whites, a view that causes outrage among equal rights campaigners. But is there an alternative explanation for these puzzling statistics and what would it mean if there were not?

All too often the liberal establishment has stifled debate on the issue by pretending that it does not exist. It is asserted, for example, that the concept of intelligence is culturally relative. Even if this is (relatively) true, it does not alter the fact that the kind of intelligence revealed by IQ tests is crucial to one’s prospects in the modern world. It hardly helps the cause of racial equality to argue that, although blacks do worse at IQ tests, they have the kind of intelligence that is useful in preindustrial societies.

The reluctance of liberals to engage in real debate has left the impression that there is an inconvenient truth about IQ differences that is being suppressed by political correctness. This has bolstered the phenomenon of black skin being used subconsciously as an information-bearing trait, so that blacks are judged as a group rather than as individuals. This has prejudiced blacks in finding jobs and amounts to de facto affirmative action for whites.

But need liberals have been so paranoid about the possibility of natural IQ differences between the so-called races? Let us suppose, for the sake of argument, that whites have a genetic advantage in IQ over blacks. Would this sanction the kind of policies favoured by the far Right, such as segregationist schooling or a bar on blacks entering university?

It is not difficult to spot the logical fallacy. Even if the average black had a naturally lower IQ than the average white this would not mean that all blacks had lower IQs than all whites. There would still be a significant overlap such that if a white person and a black person were chosen at random there would be a fair chance that the black would have a higher IQ. This demonstrates that even in a hypothetical society with genetically based racial differences in IQ it is sensible to treat people as individuals rather than as group members.

Of course, if the far Right were sincere in its motivation for the different treatment of blacks it has a far more effective policy at its disposal. Why not set a mandatory IQ test and then divide people into high, medium and low IQ? Anecdotal evidence suggests that a disproportionate number of the far Right would find themselves in the lowest category and ripe to be bossed around by intelligent black masters.

This ought to demonstrate to all shades of opinion that apartheid is an evil whether it is based upon colour, IQ or anything else. The fear of the Left over possible natural differences between the so-called races is understandable but exaggerated. It is founded upon the idea that political equality is derived from some actual equality that we all share. The truth is that political equality is a moral abstraction, not an empirical discovery. Grasping this important truth should enable us to celebrate our differences rather than cower in fear of them"

Here is the link to the full article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article2267671.ece

By the way the person who wrote the article is a big supporter of Barack Obama, and Muhammad Ali if you read his other articles.

Answer 1

the race and IQ debate is being suppressed because the liberal media knows that it cannot win the debate. the statistics do not lie.

Answer 2

I consider a complete lot of significance has been located on a scan that has little program to truly existence. In the primary situation, all IQ exams, and actually all exams, are culturally biased. As an illustration, I present the examination I took for my nursing licensure. There was once a query that almost all Mexican American pupils ignored due to the fact that they did not realize what bouillon cubes have been. Seems a foolish factor, however that type of query might rate them features on an IQ scan. In addition, I Q exams scan handiest exact varieties of intelligence. As I youngster, I was once observed to have an IQ above a hundred and forty. But for those who gave me a puzzle made of 5 portions of a horse, I could not get however 4 of the portions in combination. I additionally had, and nonetheless to a detailed volume have, no social expertise whatever. Motivation is way more major than IQ. An common pupil with rough paintings can acquire bigger grades than a top-IQ pupil who simply will get via with out bothering to take a look at. But greater than whatever, seeking to follow any around the board judgments to any organization of individuals will consistently lead to a couple individuals who deserve a risk being excluded unfairly. The high-quality factor is to examine individuals on themselves and their possess list, now not via a few numbers on a scan.

Answer 3

It is because the liberal media is doing something called "Selling an article". You should understand that the media is looking to make money, just as much as any other business, the more controversial the topic, the more it sells. The liberal media is a bunch of dumb ********* who don't know **** about anything. (these are the people that said we were losing the vietnam war after the Tet offensive, just because we suffered a larger number of losses than usual, they forgot to mention that it was actually a massive success on our part when the vietcong were wiped out.) I digress.



Anyway, the fact of the matter is that IQ tests are very subjective to things such as culture and background. Just because blacks tend to score lower on an IQ test doesn't mean that they have lower IQs, it could very easily mean that they have a different cultural history, and they interpret pictures or questions differently. Another factor is that many blacks have a disadvantage known as "Ghetto" meaning that the majority of blacks grow up in poor, inner city places, and they have no care for learning over basic survival.



It is true that blacks have a tendency of scoring lower than whites on IQ tests, but this has nothing to do with genetics (or even intelligence) as it does with culture.