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Drum is irrationally invested in the lead-crime hypothesis. There's a strain of white, technocratic US liberal with a creepy investment in the idea that progra
by Semiapies 9y ago
Drum is irrationally invested in the lead-crime hypothesis. There's a strain of white, technocratic US liberal with a creepy investment in the idea that programs like urban renewal (bulldoze minority neighborhoods and stuff the residents in miserable housing projects) didn't fail, but were failed by those minorites. Back in the day, they were the ones who would mutter about generic differences in intelligence and The Bell Curve not getting a fair hearing when they thought the audience was sympathetic.
- Gibbon1 9y ago> and The Bell Curve not getting a fair hearing If you put that line at the beginning of your comment you'd saved me a couple of seconds reading.
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- neaden 9y agoThis is in no way a fair reading of Drum on the lead stuff. His basic point is that the rise and fall off crime is due in large part to lead so you should ignore politicians who try to claim credit for it with their policing programs and that we should scale back programs that were initiated during the 80s come wave. He does not support things like The Bell Curve at all.
- veridies 9y agoIt’s worth noting Drum’s actual position on The Bell Curve: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/05/charles-murray-still-convinced-whites-are-smarter-blacks/ http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/05/charles-murray... TLDR: he thinks that there could be an genetic difference in racial IQ levels, but that the evidence is against it and it makes far less sense than the environmental explanation.
- Semiapies 9y agoIt's an entirely fair reading of many of his supporters, who are absolutely about rehabilitating failed social programs.
- fjsolwmv 9y agoYou got it 180degrees off. Drum is the opposite stereotype from the one you put forth.