I take arguments like those in The Bell Curve to be a sophistic racial slur. There has been no gene or loci of genes that define intellect. Until such a set of genes is definitively found, those who try to connect intellect and race with genotype are racists masquerading as intellectuals.
Unfortunately, history knows too well of so-called scholars who have forwarded theories that certain people, primarily those of African origin, are inferior. During times of American slavery many theologians posited that the African slaves were inferior by a divination of God. All of these arguments, biological and divine determinism, have been put forth throughout history to justify a political philosophy and social psychology of oppression of people of color, Jews, and women. Such is the case with the new popularization of biological determinism.
In fact, it is only in an atmosphere of racism that theories suggesting a genetic inferiority ...
