Debating “race and IQ” is now cause for excommunication from respectable journalism, and, according to Ben Smith, indefensible. Yet here is part of an online debate between me and Ta-Nehisi Coates on the subject in 2011.
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Replying to @sullydish
It's not "debating", it's forwarding and advocating the same debunked scientific racism that actively harms black people in so many areas of society, from medicine to housing to schooling. It's good that society is finally treating that racism as more than just a debate topic.
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Replying to @rasmansa @sullydish
Seems this point is every time someone brings up the race/IQ debate, So who is acting in bad faith here?
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Replying to @22lozenges @sullydish
I'd say the racists are acting in bad faith. Instead of actually engaging the science and overturning the scientific consensus, they just "want to debate". Note, their position used to be consensus, and then was overturned.
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In this, they very much remind me of antivaxxers and other quacks.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2013/04/26/all-truth-comes-from-public-debate-a-corollary-to-crank-magnetism/ …
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