“If we had 100 Arthur Jensens, and Steve Sailer was appointed editor of National Review…” The reason this doesn’t happen is because people won’t accept these views! It’s like saying we can’t know about heredity because people aren’t born in equal circumstances. But if hereditarianism is true, people won’t ever have an equal starting point because they’ll take after their parents. What this is saying is essentially if people accepted HBD they would accept HBD. There aren’t a hundred Arthur Jensens. There isn’t even one any more. His views were at one point discussed in major newspapers and he testified before Congress. He was a major figure in psychology. Today nobody promotes his views in the entirety of the field. That’s not an accident. It’s because society won’t accept hereditarianism absent a cultural revolution.
“If we had 100 Arthur Jensens, and Steve Sailer was appointed editor of National Review…” The reason this doesn’t happen is because people won’t accept these views! It’s like saying we can’t know about heredity because people aren’t born in equal circumstances. But if hereditarianism is true, people won’t ever have an equal starting point because they’ll take after their parents. What this is saying is essentially if people accepted HBD they would accept HBD. There aren’t a hundred Arthur Jensens. There isn’t even one any more. His views were at one point discussed in major newspapers and he testified before Congress. He was a major figure in psychology. Today nobody promotes his views in the entirety of the field. That’s not an accident. It’s because society won’t accept hereditarianism absent a cultural revolution.
@RichardHanania Here’s Madison Grant in the early 20th century complaining that the press isn’t fair to his views, which he certainly would’ve called “race realism” had that term been around then
@codesixonline Great find! The HBD people need to be more radical if they want people to accept their views.