There's nothing wrong with explaining either of these these things. There's also nothing wrong with just telling him he's racist and/or stupid, given people have been explaining these things to him since before I was born and he has never listened.
https://twitter.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1420435981384179713
Nothing wrong with ignoring him either, if that's what people choose to do, but it's not right to prescribe that's what people *should* do. The man is invited to college campuses. Ignoring him comes with its own costs. As does ignoring scientific racism more generally.
Finally, I don't think it's right to prescribe people give a well-cited rebuttal to racist arguments. This places an enormous burden on those who are the targets of racism, while also lending a lot of credibility to the argument itself.
I shouldn't need a background in cognitive psychology or statistics to recognize scientific sexism as sexism. Nor should I have to have this background to clearly oppose this sexism. Nor should Black people need similar backgrounds when responding to scientific racism.
Sometimes it suffices to say, "You're racist" or "You're sexist." And sometimes it's worth saying this very, very, very loudly.
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