As I have said before, I think to say that there may well be no genetically inferior races, as Jencks presumably does, implies that there might be. And the problem here is to get exactly right what one's objection to this absurd theory is. There is a madness in this whole way of thinking; what is believed is not a real possibility at all. To say that there are no genetically inferior races is inadequate because it commits one at least to that way of speaking. It seems to commit one to the view that even if there is no decisive evidence for the genetically inferior races, there might have been or still be. And it is precisely this way of speaking to which I would object. Just to speak in this way about races is to be involved in a distortion.
But I haven't specified at all what I think to be the nature of the distortion contained in this belief. The thinking begins.
best, rakesh