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01/02/2008: "Race, IQ and genetics: a socially unacceptable topic"

No concept threatens the state religion of diversity more than innate group difference. Take the wattage generated by every political controversy in the United States – abortion, war, homosexuality – add it up and multiply by ten. You still wouldn’t have anything close to the shock power of the idea that racial and ethnic groups – and sexes – think and behave differently not entirely because of “culture” but partly, or largely, DNA.

It has been more than a decade since Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein wrote The Bell Curve, which laid out the data on racial IQ differences, and how they are, in all likelihood, mostly inherited. To those who came to accept that information, the impenetrable resistance to the findings by the rest of the world is baffling. The statistics are so irrefutable – and so observable at work in the world – yet so determinedly ignored in the officially-sanctioned discussions of the issues. It’s like a society-wide remake of The Emperor’s New Clothes.

[ Nationalism should exist for other reasons than the above. The article hints at but doesn't flesh out the idea that variation within races, including sub-divisions like historical nationality or ethno-linguistic identity, are also important, as are social caste roles. The idea behind nationalism is not to be mean to the less favored ethnic groups, but to separate ethnic groups so each can find its own highest optimal goals. ]

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