Under a true meritocracy, blacks would be less than 1% of any truly cognitively-demanding field (i.e., one requiring a mean IQ of 130 and above). This is almost entirely a function of group IQ distributions.
Now let's do some affirmative action to get blacks up to, say, 5% of a particular cognitively-demanding field. This cannot happen unless we lower the standards of admission into that field for blacks.
The left argues that these new affirmative-actioned blacks will be of the same quality as the meritocratic blacks.
There is no way to describe this claim except as magical thinking of the highest order. It's a violation of statistical reality. It ought to be mocked by everyone with a brain.
But we can't mock it, let alone question it, in our most important institutional spaces.
This is a surreal situation, a symptom of how debased we've become in order to avoid the awkwardness of directly confronting group differences.
1/ At a South African university, an argument is made to eliminate science from study because it's a "product of Western modernity."
"We have to restart science from an African perspective."
As an example, the speaker suggests "Black magic."
2/ When a "science person" objects, he is scolded by the organizer for "disrespecting the sacredness of this space," and asked to apologize, which he does. But that doesn't stop the scolding. Opinions can only be expressed under rules that appear to guide outcomes.
3/ The "Black magic" advocate then adds that, despite the fact that she took some science in high school, she decided to not be on the science faculty because science stands in the way of "decolonization." [Note: Africa was decolonized over 50 years ago.]
Black people in America commit wildly disproportionate amounts of violent crime, and the government statistics on this crime rarely if ever get reported in the media.
I also talk about the scientifically-established (and scientifically-uncontroversial) group differences in IQ, and the effect these have on group outcomes in the US.
Full-scale East Asian-American IQ: 105+
White: 100
African-American: 85
1/ Richard Hanania has not yet responded to this long, detailed and explosive piece alleging he's used a pseudonym to pen hundreds of incendiary — "racist" and "sexist," according to HuffPost — online comments over the years.
2/ HuffPost alleges that Hanania used the name "Richard Hoste" to express "support for eugenics and the forced sterilization of 'low IQ' people," opposition to "race-mixing” (Hoste called it "shameful"), and to argue that "Black people cannot govern themselves."
3/ Hoste is also quoted as claiming that women "didn't evolve" to be decision-makers and non-white immigrants from Latin America should leave the US, among other provocative ideas.
This mentally disordered basement-dwelling slug is responsible for smearing dozens of honest scholars and damaging the careers of people like Noah Carl and Bo Winegard. He attacks almost anyone who touches the subject of race and IQ.
Meet Oliver D. Smith.
Smith started out as a neo-Nazi, but after being tossed out of every racist online user group, he careened to the other end of the horseshoe so that he could take his revenge.
In other words, he went from being a creep to being another kind of creep.
I highly recommend the article. It details Smith's sordid and despicable history, his extreme obsessiveness and total lack of conscience, and his inability to behave in a reasonable manner. His self-admitted mental health issues can't fully explain his behavior.
1/ The most perfect (and almost unbelievable) metaphor for affirmative action: The lives of Allan Bakke (a white guy who challenged racial quotas at UC Davis) and Patrick Chavis (a black guy admitted to UC Davis under affirmative action the year Bakke was rejected).
2/ After Bakke won his SCOTUS case in 1978 (which ended the use of *overt* racial quotas in university admissions), he finally was accepted at UC Davis medical school. He graduated and eventually began practicing medicine. He kept a low profile, and didn't give interviews.
3/ Years later, the NY Times, still stinging from Bakke's victory, published a long and glowing account of a “thriving” black UC Davis medical school graduate named Patrick Chavis, noting how he had benefited from the school's old affirmative action quota system.