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prominent one), or culturally —…f CRT say it’s racist to suggest whites have privilege but acceptable to say Blacks are defective? The former, after all, is a sociological assessment, while the latter is a characterological one. Situating white people within a sociological context of power and relative position is not a judgment upon them as human beings. But placing Black people in a basket marked “inferior” in some way — whether biologically, as in the arguments of The Bell Curve (a book rejected by few conservatives and written by a very prominent one), or culturally — casts precisely such a judgment.

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Adebayo Adeniran
Jul 1, 2021

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Bell curve: A profoundly useless book, which used the study of a Nigerian academic to justify its racism.

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