RE: REVIEWS: The Bell Curve -Rafal's summary and manifesto

From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 24 2002 - 16:40:26 MDT


Damien wrote:

> All this is fair enough, and I'm sorry if I seemed to be implying that
> *your* comments were racist. But this thread is about THE BELL CURVE.

### But the Bell Curve is not about races. It's about IQ. So why mention
race?

If a racist posts here, we'll crush him like a bug. Otherwise the whole idea
of race needs not to be mentioned at all, because it's so trivial. Race as a
value is so pre-transhumanist. Leave it to kluxers.

> It's a long time since I read in that tome, but perhaps you can
> refresh my memory on what precise public policy recommendations H & M
> drew from the existence of human sub groups who are carriers of the
> mtDNA mutation 13513A or the mutations that produce juvenile
> myoclonic epilepsy, or anything remotely along those lines?
>

### Elaborate?

Rafal



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