Reading about the latest racist is sort of boring. It's like reading about how MLK was a philanderer and a plagiarist or how Michael Jackson may or may not have

Reading about the latest racist is sort of boring. It's like reading about how MLK was a philanderer and a plagiarist or how Michael Jackson may or may not have been a pedophile. It's beside the point. I'd rather focus on people's useful contributions. Well, except for Elizabeth Holmes. I make an exception there. I actually appreciate your candor. I believe strongly in equality of opportunity. I do not believe accepting falsehoods as fact or drowning those seeking truth in frivolous arguments is likely to get us there. I do actually think it is possible to have a world where we accept that IQ is genetically heritable and yet people treat each other kindly. I am convinced that a refusal to accept IQ as a genetic trait is the cornerstone of the belief system underlying claims of systemic racism and the like. In fact, if I believed IQ were largely environmental, I would immediately join in that chorus. The problem is, IQ is genetic, and what society is actually doing is demonizing large groups of people in a fashion that resembles the Salem Witch Trials for being "racists" when in fact most situations can be explained in a far more pedestrian way by simply acknowledging that some people just aren't all that smart. None of this is to say that zero racists exist in the world. Of course they do, and they should be vigorously combatted. But to suggest that racism is a founding principle of western culture or that it is the basic reason for differential outcomes between groups just isn't true. Not in 2023.