IQ: The Democratically Purified Racism

After the ideas in the book The Bell Curve were thoroughly debunked a couple of years ago, almost everybody seems to agree that even if black people considered as a group may be less intelligent than the rest of humanity, the genes are not to blame! Based on statistical studies of the intelligence quotient (IQ) of German children born after WW2 and fathered by black Americans, the most recent publications used as textbooks at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Copenhagen declare that the average score of these children is by no means inferior – as you would expect if ‘black genes’ were dumber than other people’s genes.2 And this conclusion goes well with the political trends claiming that all people are equal – at least until their success or failure proves that they never were.

The same democratic attitude, however, is open to a very different graduation of the individuals than the one between blacks and whites. When some people are poor and others are rich, even when everybody is equal and therefore by definition has equal opportunities, then the difference must ultimately be caused by either their genes or the conditions of their childhood, nature or nurture, mustn’t it?

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