Jake Allen’s Ockhamist.com

Prompted by the Lawrence Summers affair, Charles Murry, of The Bell Curve fame, opts out of his self-imposed silence to rock the establishment - arguing for an open dialog about group differences in The Inequality Taboo (a fully annotated article in Commentary magazine).

One such premise is that the distribution of innate abilities and propensities is the same across different groups. The statistical tests for uncovering job discrimination assume that men are not innately different from women, blacks from whites, older people from younger people, homosexuals from heterosexuals, Latinos from Anglos, in ways that can legitimately affect employment decisions. Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 assumes that women are no different from men in their attraction to sports. Affirmative action in all its forms assumes there are no innate differences between any of the groups it seeks to help and everyone else. The assumption of no innate differences among groups suffuses American social policy. That assumption is wrong.
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Elites throughout the West are living a lie, basing the futures of their societies on the assumption that all groups of people are equal in all respects. Lie is a strong word, but justified. It is a lie because so many elite politicians who profess to believe it in public do not believe it in private. It is a lie because so many elite scholars choose to ignore what is already known and choose not to inquire into what they suspect. We enable ourselves to continue to live the lie by establishing a taboo against discussion of group differences.

Do the inate differences in Men and Women, Rich and Poor, Race1 and Race2, etc. make any difference in your social, religious, educational, or work environments?

Is Blandus a misogynist bigot?