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I'm not aware of him making any racist or bigoted claims. Can you provide a link for that?

DanBC 11y ago
His blog is full of them. Here's one example: He thinks that child abuse a problem only caused by homosexual men http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=26 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=26 Rational Wiki contains links to many more. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond
dlisboa 11y ago
> And the part that, if you are a decent human being and not a racist bigot, you have been dreading: American blacks average a standard deviation lower in IQ than American whites at about 85. And it gets worse: the average IQ of African blacks is lower still, not far above what is considered the threshold of mental retardation in the U.S. And yes, it’s genetic; g seems to be about 85% heritable, and recent studies of effects like regression towards the mean suggest strongly that most of the heritability is DNA rather than nurturance effects. > In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color. http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=129 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=129 > I was near surrounded by these people, for the first time in my life, at a sort of ethnic-pride gathering which I was attending for reasons not relevant to this essay. And found myself experiencing disgust. Not anger, not hatred, but a visceral feeling of revulsion similar to being exposed to sewage or rotten food That is his feeling towards some "minority X". > Now the uncomfortable part: by any objective measure, blacks as a group are a problem of a kind minority X is not. Lower mean IQ, more crime and violence, more welfare dependency, lots of whining for privileges, etcetera etcetera. And I have had the experience of feeling like I was in physical danger when isolated with a group of black people (just once, on a night train in New Jersey, but that once was more than enough). http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5001 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5001 That wasn't even hard to find. His blog is simply bigot literature under a veil of smarts, going against black people and women (and even more groups) with purported legitimacy given by his earlier contributions to Open Source.

DanBC 11y ago

His blog is full of them. Here's one example: He thinks that child abuse a problem only caused by homosexual men http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=26 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=26 Rational Wiki contains links to many more. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond

dlisboa 11y ago

> And the part that, if you are a decent human being and not a racist bigot, you have been dreading: American blacks average a standard deviation lower in IQ than American whites at about 85. And it gets worse: the average IQ of African blacks is lower still, not far above what is considered the threshold of mental retardation in the U.S. And yes, it’s genetic; g seems to be about 85% heritable, and recent studies of effects like regression towards the mean suggest strongly that most of the heritability is DNA rather than nurturance effects. > In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color. http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=129 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=129 > I was near surrounded by these people, for the first time in my life, at a sort of ethnic-pride gathering which I was attending for reasons not relevant to this essay. And found myself experiencing disgust. Not anger, not hatred, but a visceral feeling of revulsion similar to being exposed to sewage or rotten food That is his feeling towards some "minority X". > Now the uncomfortable part: by any objective measure, blacks as a group are a problem of a kind minority X is not. Lower mean IQ, more crime and violence, more welfare dependency, lots of whining for privileges, etcetera etcetera. And I have had the experience of feeling like I was in physical danger when isolated with a group of black people (just once, on a night train in New Jersey, but that once was more than enough). http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5001 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5001 That wasn't even hard to find. His blog is simply bigot literature under a veil of smarts, going against black people and women (and even more groups) with purported legitimacy given by his earlier contributions to Open Source.