Shocked? I'm not - really. Before we jump to the conclusion that I'm anti-science - repeat after me: Race is a construct, it's fluid and there is no scientific proof of the existence of intellectual advantage favouring one 'group' of people over another. Racism masked as science - is still racism - and that's always devoid of fact.
The newspaper quoted the 79-year-old American geneticist as saying he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really."
What does shock me though is that 99% of the world's population fails to see the connect between the current 'third-world' and past colonial expansion/exploitation.
How is it that people don't see - that the so-called 'equality-scale' - started off unbalanced in the first place? How do people not get this? How do people not see that when you steal/rape/exploit/murder/mutilate/severly destroy a society there is no hope in hell that they will ever be able to 'stand up' on their feet in the first place. (Putting aside that the development "MODEL" is flawed itself).
What do people not get about this?
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Me thinks they ought to revoke his nobel...
