There is something bizarre about “high-IQ” as an identity core like with Mensa. Like a trade union of capitalists or a commune of libertarians. Or that South Park joke about the anti-semitic sect of Judaism. Shouldn’t you be winning Nobels, rather than performing identity?
That recent trend is the reason IQ is in the news again. The whole “SJWs are suppressing the truth about IQ differences between races and genders and oppressing smart people” narrative. Only ever comes up when people are trying to enter a strength into an oppression Olympics.
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that's the most extreme fringe position in the recent IQ discourse. reflects a nasty ressentiment more than a reality that impacts anyone's daily life imo. the real driver of that discourse is/was less about racial IQ differences and more about media discourse control.
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I'm partial to McWhorter's position on the topic though. He's said a few times something like "it really sucks that even the academics aren't allowed to talk about it amongst themselves without calling down a shitstorm. Non-academics should probably just drop it entirely."
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Ah, I see. "Because sociobiology is being used by racists to make ridiculous allegations, Mensa is a threat to society.” Sorry. I’ll see myself out.
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