>>10633057Ok so I actually found the apparently heretical positions he takes.
First, there was a bunch of banter that was poor humor/boomer casual racist jokes he made at some seminars, I discarded these as TMZ-esque tabloid outrage since it was just comments.
Second, there was clearly taking his comments out of context, and framing them to further paint this guy as Goebbels 2.0 where they dig up interviews where his comments were purposely misconstrued, which is what media loves to do.
Finally we arrive at the actual academic heresey, from his upcoming book:
"There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so."
To which a Times interviewer then goads him to expand on:
"all our social policies are based on the fact that their (African) intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really". He said there was a natural desire that all human beings should be equal but "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true" which is where the ruse is, he was referring to employee testing.
So tl;dr, for sure this guy a boomer on edgy race commentary cruise control but honestly his comments aren't that earth shattering and definitely don't merit the assloads of media coverage the past week or so. No interviewers challenged him on this either, they immediately ran with the "DIS RACIST!" follow up story instead of getting him to flesh out these comments some more, but alas it's the media.
