The importance of publicly acknowledging IQ differences

To the great annoyance of the sort of people who thoroughly deserve to be annoyed, Steve Sailer has been stalwartly pushing the race and IQ issue in the aftermath of the New Orleans disaster. After pointing out that the only time liberals entertained a connection between race and IQ was when they held that low IQ should relieve a black murderer of the death penalty, Sailer continues:

Now, be clear that I’m not saying that low IQ people are not morally culpable or that they lack free will or all those other philosophical issues that are fun to stay up all night talking about in the dorm room. What I am saying is that policymakers need to plan ahead for the likely problems that have been shown to be statistically correlated with having large numbers of low IQ people on your hands. Otherwise, more of our American citizens will die….

So, how can any official plan ahead based on realistic assessments of how a particular population is likely to react in an emergency if the entire subject of behavioral differences is a career-killing thought crime? These are our fellow human beings and our fellow Americans in New Orleans, but we’re letting them die because we’ve been terrified to make plans based on politically incorrect facts.

Right on.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at September 07, 2005 09:33 PM | Send