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Sailer on McWhorter on Saletan on race differences
Steve Sailer quotes at length and replies to John McWhorter’s staggeringly convoluted and tortured musings on the possibility that blacks are less intelligent than other groups. Amusingly, McWhorter is replying to William Saletan, who, prior to McWhorter’s joining the fray, was the undisputed champ in the Tortured and Convoluted by the Possibility of Race Differences in Intelligence Department. In McWhorter’s troubled mind, Sailer himself takes on the role of the Dark (or is it White?) Master of the Universe, the symbol of everything sinister waiting to leap out of the shadows (or is it the light?) and take over the world in the name of evil if it turns out that racial differences in intelligence actually exist. The world under the rule of progressivism doesn’t progress, does it? I’m reminded of The New Republic’s hysterical outpouring in response to The Bell Curve in 1994—a symposium of 18 writers in which each participant outdid the last in high toned denunciations of … uh, the truth. But wait—there has been progress, though it may be of the one step forward, two steps backward variety. I had forgotten Amy Harmon’s groundbreaking November 2007 article in the New York Times in which she essentially acknowledged the existence of racial differences in intelligence, and didn’t seem bent out of shape about it. See VFR’s exciting discussion about the Harmon article, “Race realism enters the liberal mainstream!” The fact is, McWhorter and Saletan have far less guts and less willingness to acknowledge the truth than Amy Harmon.
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