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Chris Brand, who worked in the psychology dept of a Scottish University
argued that he is not a racist(see below)I have major problems with the
concept of both "race and intelligence"I would therefore have to call in to
question the validity of his argument.Until we can clearly define terms how do
we KNOW anything.If you are interested in the IQ debate read S J Gould "The
Mismeasure of Man" an excellent book on IQ and Race.
Email me with your thoughts.
A racist? By Chris Brand.
I hope and believe that I am not a racist in the usual sense of that over-used
term. However, I am certainly what I call a‘race realist’,and thus what
‘anti-racists’ and the ‘liberal’-left and the media have in recent years
called a ‘scientific racist.’
Like any other attitude, true ‘racism’ involves affective, cognitive and
conative components.—To have an attitude is to feel a certain way, to have
particular beliefs, and to intend to act on those feelings and beliefs.
But the three components are distinguishable and can exist independently,
as follows.
1.’Race prejudice’ is the usual term for the ‘affective’ component of racism.
A person may have a mild or strong aversion to people of another race for no
very obvious good reason. For example, Japanese people do not like the way
Caucasians smell. (For most Japanese, the aversion is quite specific to the
smell: they do not like to be with the small minority of Japanese people who
also have Caucasian body odours.) Prejudice is not necessarily bad; and it may
always have some evolutionary survival value in conjunction with other features. But it will tend to lead to selective exposure to people of other races and even to ‘pre-judging’ information about them.
2.’Race realism’ is the most obvious term for the ‘cognitive’ component of
racism. Here the person entertains sincere beliefs about race differences
which are taken to be reasonably important and quite deep-seated. Scientists
who are race realists believe that good evidence and cogent arguments can be
found to support race realism. Supporters of the London School of differential
psychology are the best recognized group of experts to have held such beliefs
in the West since 1945; but a wider range of ‘race realists’ (most from outside
psychology) write for the journal Mankind Quarterly. Since ‘the Jensen heresy’
of 1969, it has been standard practice of ‘anti-racists’ to try to pretend
that all such scientific thinking is essentially ‘Nazi’ in tendency or
inspiration—despite the fact that Hitler banned IQ testing and brought about
the greatest destruction of intellectual talent in his country since the
French had driven their Protestand middle class to Berlin by the Massacre of
St Bartholomew’s Day. (Since 1980, London School psychologists have tended to
claim it demonstrable that East Asian people have higher IQ than Caucasian—
whatever other limitations Asian people may have; and in my banned book
‘The ‘g’ Factor’ I claim that IQ tests probably underestimate Asian
intelligence.)
3.’Racial discrimination’ is the ‘conative’ component of racism. The proponent
seeks to discriminate according to race as a matter of public policy. Or,
according to some critics, the employer who wishes to hire according to
‘literacy’ or ‘IQ’ may be a *disguised* practitioner of racial discrimination.
Once more, the intention to discriminate can exist on its own, without the
‘affective’ or ‘cognitive’ components of true racism. For example, a black
politician or a white employer may have no wish to favour blacks, nor any
belief that blacks differ so as to need ‘positive discrimination’, yet both
may think it pragmatic and politic to go along with affirmative action
programmes rather than risk the bad publicity of doing otherwise.
(In recent years the Left in the West has lost the now-‘embourgeoisified’
working class that once supported it. So it now looks to ‘minority groups’
[including women!] for support. It has traded off decent people’s rejection of
populist racism. It shrieks that anything which might address the very real
social problems found among black people in the West is ‘racist.’
In the hysterical climat, many whites now live in fear that their
livelihoods may be snatched away if they exhibit the slightes sign of
whatever the ‘liberal’-left choose to call ‘racist.’)
Being a ‘race realist’ may seem rather tame and academic. So let me
conclude this piece on ‘definitions’ by saying, yes, there are *some*
full-blooded attitudes that I *do* happily acknowledge. I am what might by
called an ‘IQ-ist’: like St Augustine, Dr Johnson, Charles Spearman,
Sir Cyril Burt, Ayn Rand and Bill Shockley, I do believe in the supreme
importance of intelligence in human affairs, and in our duty to respect
and nurture this most valuable resource.—And, for better or worse,
I don’t know of any better measure of a person’s intelligence than a
45-minute IQ-type test. [No, since people ask, my own IQ is nothing
special—though I hope I have a few verbal knacks that come in handy.]
I am also a ‘truth-ist’: I have been paid by the British taxpayer
for 26 years to find out the truth in psychology, and I intend to go on
giving value for money.