Tribal Psychology of Political Correctness

2 Responses to Tribal Psychology of Political Correctness

1. Ted Torgerson says:

   July 11, 2015 at 6:03 AM

   What’s interesting is how he is careful not to violate the taboo of discussing race except in the most non-controversial terms. “We’re not all biologically indistinguishable.” What he really means is, I imagine, that there is measurable difference in median IQ among different groups. But the taboo against saying such a thing controls him.

   His explanation that racism is absurd (6:00 to 6:30) is also a bow to the taboo. It’s true that the bell curve of intelligence among different groups overlaps, so there are, for example, individual blacks higher on the bell curve describing IQ distribution among blacks than individual Koreans who fall onthe low end of the bell curve describing IQ distribution among Koreans. But virtually no racist actually thinks all Koreans are more intelligent than all blacks. They simply see the overlapping distributions, acknowledge you cannot judge any individual of the group based on the bell curve, but then draw the patently obvious conclusion that most Koreans have higher IQ than the average black person. The most he can say is “We are not all interchangeable with one another.” Wow that is speaking truth to power. The implications of IQ distribution for the lawsuit against Harvard over its admissions policy probably makes him reticent as much as the cultural taboos of academia he claims should be defied.
2. linda jackson says:

   July 23, 2015 at 8:55 AM

   Yet there is war, hunger, sex rings, child abductions, shop lifting, economic terrorism, media dumbing down politics, people still being judged by melanin, mispronunciations of words, stuttering, bowl-legged-ness, clubbed feet, humped backed people, crossed eyed people, pigeon-toed people……disease, blindness, arrogance, humiliation, cauliflower ears, leprosy, dandruff, perversion, greed, poverty, deafness….What is your point again?

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