03-09-2017, 11:11 AM
Quote:I wasn't justifying the rioting, that was wrongWas it? You didn't even see fit to mention it earlier.
Quote:but at the same time the college had no obligation to let him speak on their grounds.
The college invited him. Should the college not be allowed to do that?
Quote:IIRC the reason *The Bell Curve* caused such outrage is because it completely ignored systemic racism in favor of the Right's favorite talking points, indicating that Murray is a propagandist hack, never mind the the common opinion that outright rejects IQ as a valid measure of intelligence and the concept of intelligence being a singular g factor.
I'm sorry, I don't share your belief system, so could you unpack this for me a little more? Where does systemic racism fit in here? Why did the APA uphold most of his results? If IQ is so widely rejected, where did that quote from Pinker come from? I know you like his Better Angels of Our Nature, so it isn't like he's some marginal figure.
Seriously, do you really divide all ideas into Right/Left and think cold & prickly/warm & fuzzy things about them accordingly?