Scientific racist - the writer. This became a dog whistle from back then.

It gave racists a "scientific" reason for their racism. As I recall, the American Psychological Association commissioned a taskforce to investigate this and they had a good number of criticisms for the book. First of all, there was no peer-review process. Second, the authors made some erroneous inferences based on their data in favoring the genetics explanation without due consideration of environmental and social impacts.

So Charles Murray just took his data and used it to back his preconceived result. Murray has made a lot of money as a speaker ever since.

It was not only not peer reviewed but when the data used was evaluated by several (really all of them) actual experts they couldn’t find anything or any way to come to what Murray included in the book.

He wrote a long article in 1971 for The Atlantic about "I.Q." which created a storm of controversy.

He was one of many in academia upset that minorities and especially women were gaining a foothold in academia thanks to affirmative action. This attitude lay at the root of the dubious popularity of the pseudoscience of "evolutionary psychology," then called "sociobiology."

Herrnstein taken to task: https://archive.scienceforthepeople.org/vol-4/v4n2/public-statement-herrnstein-controversy/

Sounds like they almost had the book written and then found something to support it in their minds.

Murray simply capitalized on it because it seemed to support his own racist, sexist, "libertarian" notions.

since I first read about it. People like Jordan Peterson don't give me much reason to change my mind about it.

dressed up in scientific trappings. It was always a mostly a anti-feminist reaction to women's increasing foothold in society. It tries to justify male assholery by claiming it is all biological. MRAs like Peterson use it as a weapon in support of patriarchy.

I am in an I-O pyschology-adjacent field (organizational behavior) and so haven't had much exposure to the EP stuff in grad school. I assumed EP's emphasis was on the universal, hard-wired aspects of the psychological processes.

Is an admission with tsf.

At the King of the Low IQ individuals calling others low IQ.

the people he hates the most are smart and self assured, something he is clearly NOT !

What a dirtbag, he is, my apologies to dirt bags, he is much worse than that

Turnip *thinks* he's self-assured, but he's actually self-deluded.

And I'm not about to call him "self-possessed". He's clearly possessed, but not that kind of possessed.

As I have often pointed out to right wing bigots who insist they are not racist because "I would never use the n-word" (or some equally lame reason), when you provide food, water and plenty of sunshine to bigotry, it matters little whether you, yourself, use such language or engage in openly bigoted behavior!"

He offers NOTHING that benefits mankind.

but he never ever will. his pathology circumvents it. he can be humiliated and know he's been humiliated, but he will never have the introspection or empathy required to experience shame. never.

that particular insult seems reserved for Women of color only.

You’re going to have to face it, donald. Whether you like it or not. Whether you want to or not.

The Pope has a bigger following than YOU will EVER have!!! EVER and EVER, AMEN!!!

Frankly, EVERY Pope will have a bigger following than you’ve ever had, on into the future.

Some kook said something similar long ago.

They're all woke.

Geniuses, if the instructions are printed on the heel.

(never mind gw) is definitely stupid and deranged enough to believe that just being Black means a person is stupid. that's how fucking stupid he is.

Jasmine Crockett's brilliance is in his face but he cannot see it over the color of her skin. that's how fucking stupid he is.

...like, in the mirror.

...concept.

S.o.s. same old SHIT......

Whereas "DEI" is the administration-wide catch-all racist, phobic, misogynist term.

..."It takes one to know one!"

So following my mother's saying, Trump is a low IQ person who can recognize another low IQ person!

He had called all three low IQ individuals.

Chat GPT is designed to be conversational, not factual.

I just did a google search of "trump says low IQ" and it turns out he reserves that phrase for only the people he wishes to insult!