Same discussion yesterday, and it got flagged there as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15089419 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15089419 EDIT:

Same discussion yesterday, and it got flagged there as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15089419 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15089419 EDIT: And same here as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15091217 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15091217 EDIT: you know after crawling through the comments in that second thread, I don't think this is a topic HN can handle. Many, many (definitely not all though!) of us here grew up in good homes, went to good schools and won the "lottery of interest." To us society feels meritocratic because it mostly is if you can meet those few criteria. So when something comes along and holds that privilege (yes, I used the P-word!) up to your face, shows you that maybe the system isn't as meritocratic as it felt to you, it stings your sense of accomplishment. And then we get people purporting that whites are biologically predisposed to higher IQs or nitpicking minor details or generally just trying to preserve the feeling that I accomplished this.