James Watson and the Insidiousness of Scientific Racism

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James Watson and the Insidiousness of Scientific Racism
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Racist comments made by James Watson displayed a reckless misuse of the genetic science he himself helped pioneer. Today, Black scientists are in the best position to understand what is so broken about the ideas of Watson and his army.

, hinting that the fuss is just virtue signaling, the illiberal left at it again. But they all miss the mark.

Black exceptionalism is a popular and complicated idea. It asserts that a monolithic “average” black identity exists, and that by transcending this average, one is exceptional. While the idea isn’t welded to black achievement, it is related. Successful members of the black community who somehow avoided the regression to the mean are presented as paragons, exceptional ones of their kind.

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