"I don't know, to me it looks like the bit about Americans of Scandinavian stock is just a throwaway line that has nothing to do with the point they're actually

"I don't know, to me it looks like the bit about Americans of Scandinavian stock is just a throwaway line that has nothing to do with the point they're actually making" Then why go out of your way to use such a contentious statement? Why mention this later on: "race is a far more accurate predictor of murder, imprisonment and infant-mortality rates"? What does this have to do with the "cognitive elite?" This is just "fuck niggers, heil nordic ubermensch" stated in different terms. Both the agendas of that article (racism and classism) can much better be explained by the growing gender divide: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/8135 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-... Women are better in the knowledge economy than men, and sex is a much better predictor of murder and imprisonment rates than race.