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Has Gregory Clark, the cancelled speaker, proposed coercive eugenic measures? I wonder if merely believing that intelligence, like all human traits, has a genet
by Bostonian 6y ago
Has Gregory Clark, the cancelled speaker, proposed coercive eugenic measures? I wonder if merely believing that intelligence, like all human traits, has a genetic component, is enough to make you a "eugenicist". Quoting the article:
'The talk that was scheduled to be to be delivered was titled: "For Whom the Bell Curve Tolls: A lineage of 400,000 individuals 1750-2020 shows genetics determines most social outcomes". In his book of a similar title, For Whom the Bell Curve Tolls: Genetics, Demography and Social Outcomes, he argues that socio-economic status is genetically inherited through the “genetic transmission of … some mysterious mix of drive and ability”. He also theorised that “200 years from now the descendants of enslaved African-Americans will still be underrepresented'