[lbo-talk] 'American kids, dumber than dirt'

[John Thornton]

No it is not true and you're putting words in Watson's mouth to make him 
more palatable than he is.
If Watson had said that blacks scored lower on standardized IQ tests 
than whites he would have been on firm ground but he doesn't say that.
He claims blacks are less intelligent than whites and then offers 
standardized IQ tests as evidence for that assertion.
He claims Africans cannot run their respective countries as well as 
whites run theirs because they are less intelligent.
That is garbage and needs to be identified as such.
Don't make excuses for a hateful misinformed racist like Watson.

John Thornton

Sandy Harris wrote:
> On 10/30/07, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Just recently James Watson came out again saying
>> blacks have lower IQs than whites. It just never
>> stops, that sort of garbage.
>>     
>
> That's because it is true, at least for the standard tests
> applied to US school kids.
>
> There's room for a lot of criticism either of the tests for
> cultural bias and general meaninglessness, or of the
> educational system for shortchanging blacks and
> other groups, but it is silly to deny the data.
>
>