Don't shut up about race and IQ

In a world of equalitarian delusions and mendacities, speaking the truth is crucial.

Written by Bo Winegard

Despite diligent efforts to equalize races in the West, stubborn disparities remain. The best explanation for the apparent intransigence of these disparities is that they are caused by underlying differences in traits, e.g., cognitive ability, whose origin is partially and possibly substantially genetic. Therefore, racial inequality is inevitable in any tolerably free society.

And the left’s claim that pervasive white supremacy is the culprit of black and Hispanic underperformance is not just false—it is a calumny. For only a brutally authoritarian government could possibly equalize the races and only by thwarting the natural advantages of currently successful groups. Race disparities are not a symptom of some systemic social disease. They are the natural and inescapable outcome of liberty.

As far as I can tell, Richard Hanania agrees with these claims. Yet, he also believes that we should “shut up” about race and IQ. How did he arrive at the counterintuitive conclusion that we should shut up about something that is both true and socially important?